head and heart

“Do not let arrogance go to your head and despair to your heart; do not let compliments go to your head and criticisms to your heart; do not let success go to your head and failure to your heart.”

                                                           Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

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Is there a choice to be made

Between the mind and the heart

Does the heart know, what the mind cannot see?

Can the head quiet the heart?

the two are bound

it is the way we are designed

what goes on in our head impacts our hearts

and our hearts, at times, can quiet and inform the mind

the first seems far easier than the second

for the mind does not know when to shut up

but rants about, everything

I am not too worried that arrogance, or compliments, or success

Will go to my head

I have had plenty of success,

My mind is not dominated by those things

I do not hear the compliments, and I cannot own my success

What seems to find a place in my head are the fears, and the pain of failure

And yet

My heart seems to know what my mind cannot comprehend

Sends the message daily

Through my soul

Pounding at the door of my mind

You are a Sacred child

You are Sacred

You are

You

Loveable

And

loved