Wednesday, Dec. 27, 2023
Today’s Gift from Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation is:
The heart has reasons which reason does not know.
— Blaise Pascal
In a technological age, we think we can engineer the answers to all our problems. Reason and analysis are the tools we reach for. Our heads rule our hearts.
But our hearts have voices, too, and they deserve to be heard. Emotion is not just a force; it is also a language whose words are often more powerful and effective than those of the mind’s language. Our hearts can tell us about caring and affection and helping and loving and being in touch.
In our addiction, we stopped listening to our hearts. Our hearts themselves almost stopped. Recovery sets the heart beating again in hope and love.
I am coming to trust in the language of my heart – the language of loving.
Hazelden Foundation
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