Your Heart is the Center of Your Being
In
the biblical understanding, our heart is at the center of our being.
It’s not a muscle, but a symbol for the very center of our being. Now
the beautiful thing about the heart is that the heart is the place where
we are most ourselves. It is the very core of our being, the spiritual
center of our being. Solitude and silence, for instance, are ways to get
to the heart, because the heart is the place where God speaks to us,
where we hear the voice that calls us beloved. This is precisely the
most intimate place. In the famous story, Elijah was standing in front
of the cave. God was not in the storm, God was not in the fire and not
in the earthquake, but God was in that soft little voice (see 1 Kings
19: 11–12). That soft little voice ... speaks to the heart. Prayer and
solitude are ways to listen to the voice that speaks to our heart, in
the center of our being. One of the most amazing things is that if you
enter deeper and deeper into that place, you not only meet God, but you
meet the whole world there.
Henri Nouwen
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