Thursday, January 03, 2008
Introduction to Shayla’s talk, “Awakening the Integrity of the Heart”

When I speak, it is not my intention to tell you how to live, what you should believe, or how to improve yourself.

My intention is to offer some pointers, some radical new perspectives that will shake you up, and loosen the fixed ways you have of looking at yourself and your world.

Instead of filling you up with more information, these pointers can awaken you to a field of intelligence which I am calling ‘The Heart.’ This field of intelligence functions in an entirely different way than your conditioned mind.

Discovering the nature of this wisdom for ourselves allows us to ask ourselves some powerful questions about what is actually working in our lives, what we really want, and what matters most. 

The purpose of this inquiry is to bring us into direct contact with an intelligence that lives inside each one of us, an awareness that does not judge, struggle or blame. The nature of this awareness allows us to take radical responsibility for our lives, and to open to the courage, compassion, generosity and freedom of our authentic self.

The way we live and move in this world transforms as we begin to feel the truth of what John Donne wrote over 400 years ago: “No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main....”

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