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Based on letters and talks of the Rebbe, Rabbi M. M. Schneerson

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See how beautifully mind and heart complement one another:

The heart is an extremist; unbridled, it will allow a single emotion to fill its entire space. But the mind finds balance and harmony, even between opposites.

The mind is cold and aloof. Reality, to the mind, is but a curiosity. But the heart lives in a real world, moved by even the slightest touch.

When the heart listens to the vision of the mind, it too learns to carry a counterpoint of voices, even the voices of other hearts. When the mind listens to the depths of the heart, then its vision can go out and change the world.

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	From the wisdom of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, of righteous memory; words and condensation by Rabbi Tzvi Freeman. To order Rabbi Freeman’s book, Bringing Heaven Down to Earth, click here.

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Posted: June 26, 2011

Mind and heart?

When people mention "feelings of the heart", I automatically wonder if they know that the heart is a muscle that beats and pumps blood throughout the body, but is not responsible for or stimulate any emotion.
It's all from the brain. Or do people refer to certain stimuli in the brain as the heart from past misconceptions? And/or is there something in Kaballa about this that I'm unaware of?

Posted By Orville, Dirt

Posted: June 26, 2011

Mind and Heart

Is my mind the part of rationale? Is my heart the part of emotion? I know those both function in me but can I trust them? It is true there are incredible achievements for mankind when people have their mind and heart together. But in an average daily living person like me who does not seek to commit any crime right now but can not see I can do any greatness today either. I do not dream but I just trust G-d of Jacob deals with my reality and he is able to keep on making me into the person he wants me to be in this life and the life to come.

Posted By Anonymous, Forest Hills, NY/USA

Posted: June 26, 2011

Heart and mind

How often as a child did I hear it said, "think with your head, not with your heart".

How wrong the sayers. Thank you for this beautiful writing. It is as it says.... the heart is indeed an extremist and who can doubt it lives in the now ... in reality, or that a feeling such as love is capable of filling the 'all'. Not so the mind.

Posted By Lee Patrick, Perth, Western Australia

Posted: June 26, 2011

Beautiful !

Wonderful words and thought to bring these two elements of humanity together. You have defined them and then fused them.

The usual association is mind and body, or mind, body and soul. Mind and heart synthesis forces thinking and deeds to live by Torah. It wakes you up, makes you aware. Whether it assumes body or soul or not, i like it just the way it is written.

Thank you.

Posted By Anonymous, w

Posted: Aug 19, 2008

Oh, I see now.

I was wondering about that just now. Thanks.
Really good one.

Posted By cecilia, prague

Posted: Aug 13, 2008

Mind and Heart

I should have read "Mind and Heart" before I responded to "A Quiet Heart."

This covers my comment.

Posted By Karin Kruger, Oklahoma City, O

Getting Past the Mind


	Supermind


	The Convenient Mind


	A Real Fool


	Being Not That


	Memory


	Mind Over Matter


	A Quiet Heart


	Mind and Heart


	Harmony


	Mental Limits


	Waking Up G‑d


	Be a Mentsch


	The Promise Inside


	Decisions


	Wasting Life on Purpose

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