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On a Heart of Peace, Mind of Strategy

We are in a demanding age, so we must acquire a heart of peace and a mind of strategy. We stress strategy because we are warriors, and we stress peace because we are spiritual, positive and hopeful for the future. In this age one cannot be naive nor can one be cynical. The path is the “middle way” between the twin dangers.

Peace, love and connection are what the heart needs; analysis, strategy and skill are what the mind needs. Your emotions are your drivers, your valuation, and your direction. Your mind cannot function well without them; it becomes flaccid, cold, alienated. Worse, it may rely on hate, anger or ego for its valuation and energy. The “ex-war” will be conducted within you, as well as without you. You will call good and evil home to rethink and revaluate. In this age of doubt and zeal your ethics don’t congeal. You’ll rethink war and wage the fight inside.

A complex age demands mental clarity and agility, a simple age requires less. Can the heart and mind work together? They are partners, they must be, but they are two different points of view, we need both the synthesis, as well as the divergence.

The trick is to stand outside of your mind and outside your heart, this is what wisdom is. When you get to that place where you can step back from your thoughts and see them in perspective, and step back from your emotions also, a superior judgment appears.

Eventually, this special moment will pass and then you return back to your mind, back to your heart. This is an endless process of the three standpoints – tactics, emotions and distance; ideas, feelings and judgment; reason, drives and objectivity. These three states will flow together ceaselessly, you will learn their methods, and you will get better and better.

You will find that the evolution of wisdom does not diminish your heart or mind, it makes them better, both evolve further, then all three together, heart, mind and wisdom.

Cage Innoye

Published by Axxiad News