Your Spirit Lives in Your Heart

Sonia Choquette often asks at her workshops, where does your spirit live?  And then she looks around at the multitude of answers being gestured and, finally, she says, your heart.

Your spirit lives in your heart.  That being so, do you understand when you refuse the truths of your heart you stifle your spirit?

The poem below, The Bluebird, portrays the struggle between two common places, the heart and the mind.  The poem is sad, but, aren't we often, as well, when we hide our heart away?

 

The Bluebird- By Charles Bukowski

there's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out
but I'm too tough for him,
I say, stay in there, I'm not going
to let anybody see you.
there's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out
but I pour whiskey on him and inhale cigarette smoke
and the whores and the bartenders and the grocery clerks
never know that he's in there.
there's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out
but I'm too tough for him,
I say, stay down,
do you want to mess me up?
you want to screw up the works?
you want to blow my book sales in Europe?
there's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out
but I'm too clever,
I only let him out at night sometimes
when everybody's asleep.
I say, I know that you're there,
so don't be sad.
then I put him back,
but he's singing a little in there,
I haven't quite let him die
and we sleep together like that
with our secret pact
and it's nice enough to make a man weep,
but I don't weep,
do you?

 

Hafiz wrote:  

We have not come here to take prisoners,
But to surrender ever more deeply
To freedom and JOY.

We have not come into this exquisite world
To hold ourselves hostage from love.

Run my dear,
From anything
That may not strengthen
Your precious budding wings.

Run like hell my dear,
From anyone likely 
To put a sharp knife
Into the sacred, tender vision
Of your beautiful heart.

For we have not come here to take prisoners
Or to confine our wondrous spirits,

But to experience ever and ever more deeply
Our divine courage, freedom and Light!



 
The Sankrit expression Svatantra means freedom from the past and the future; freedom to linger in the present and freedom to change.  You have the power to change.  Just listen to your satya, your truth...I'm guessing you will find that in your heart.