Daily Meditation: Saturday, September 6, 1997

As education has developed, the intellect has come to …

09/06/1997

As education has developed, the intellect has come to occupy a dominant position in people's personal life and social life, and it has gained this position to the detriment of the heart. How many people are capable of understanding the respective roles of the heart and the intellect and how these should work together? They are few. So the intellect continues its course by accumulating knowledge, by thinking up all kinds of tricks to succeed at all costs, to oust others, to spread chaos. Whereas the heart, left to its own devices, becomes the setting for all kinds of disturbances and turmoil. This is why we see an increasing number of people nowadays who are intellectually very able but who have a dreadful emotional life, which is tearing them apart. But no-one finds this shocking; it is quite normal. Well no, it is not normal. The heart has a different role to play other than simply tormenting people. And the heart will only be able to fulfil this role when the intellect has understood its role, which is to glorify the heart, to ensure the heart's greatness and capabilities are properly understood, and to show that, thanks to love and goodness, the Kingdom of God and its Justice can come to earth. Because if the intellect continues to develop independently from the heart, it will destroy the earth. In this teaching you will learn how the intellect must glorify the heart so that, thanks to their union, you may begin to have a beneficial effect on the world as a whole.