Seth’s World View

I’m still pondering this one, and haven’t looked for other people’s opinions, so just giving my impression at the moment.

We seem to love dichotomies, such as heart/head, intellect/emotion, etc. I think it’s hard to make clean distinctions though. We are wholistic beings, and all parts make up the whole. One can’t completely divorce emotion from intellect, though one can certainly rely too heavily on one over the other. An overreliance on emotions gives us subjective truth, and people who’s lives are run by how they feel instead of by commitment and choice. Mobs are often run by emotion. Overreliance on intellect in often uninspiring, sometimes dead, and can lack conviction and passion. People making intellectual decisions from board rooms have been responsible for the deaths of many. Also, what we believe often affects how we feel, and sometimes deciding to believe something with our minds eventually steers our emotions.

Perhaps, then, heart is the crossroads of intellect and emotions, when emotion is combined with truth, when truth inspires conviction, when emotion stirs passion in the soul, and they work together to produce life. What say you?