God dwells in the heart and the devil in the head

You would have come across a piece of advice that says, trust your feelings. It is not recommended by this blogger unless one knows what the source of those feelings are.

An individual consciousness is plugged both into the universal consciousness of which it is a part and the individual mind where it dwells for the most part. Feelings arise from both of these sources. The source of feelings of compassion and motherly love as well as many others derive from the all knowing infinite source that sustains all life whereas feelings of greed, ego, lust and anger arise from the individual mind and habits born out of its working. You would have heard the old adage that the mind is the devils workshop.

Hence it is appropriate to say that God dwells in the heart and the Devil in the head ( certainly not all heads though :-). Therefore, whereas a person rooted in love, truth and simplicity may do well by trusting his or her feelings, another who is rooted in lust, anger, greed or pride would do well to stay away from them.

In times of dire and essential need, the Universal consciousness may take over one’s feelings and those one has to interact with so as to see one through that phase as any loving parent would, even grab the wheel from a child’s hand if the car was headed for disaster or if the child was still learning. At most other times, the Universal consciousness lets a person be as any loving parent would so that a child grows with its own experience and even  learns from his or her mistakes. We are all children in His eyes.