12-23-2010, 08:12 PM
(12-22-2010, 08:38 AM)ahktu Wrote: Monica, I see what you are saying. I suppose the only point I am trying to make is that the choice to polarize itself can be made intellectually, without an involved emotion (in my opinion, at least).
"Heart" is the really the totality of self. However, if you have a particular personality bias that emphasizes feeling at the expense of thinking, then you tend to see emotional responses as the "heart" or indicative of truth. In that sense, we all tend to have a biased view on how one "should" be oriented towards the path to betterment or we focus on particular indicators that agree/resonate with how our experience was integrated.
Indeed it's quite ironic how the ego strongly identifies with its own purely psychological dispositions in order to find transcendence beyond ego (itself).