Your heart is alive

“Why do we have to listen to our hearts?” the boy asked, when they had made camp that day.
“Because, wherever your heart is, that is where you’ll find your treasure.”
“But my heart is agitated,” the boy said. “It has its dreams, it gets emotional, and it’s become passionate over a woman of the desert. It asks things of me, and it keeps me from sleeping many nights, when I’m thinking about her.”
“Well, that’s good. Your heart is alive. Keep listening to what it has to say.”
“My heart is a traitor,” the boy said to the alchemist, when they had paused to rest the horses. “It doesn’t want me to go on.”
“That makes sense. Naturally it’s afraid that, in pursuing your dream, you might lose everything you’ve won.”
“Well, then, why should I listen to my heart?”
“Because you will never again be able to keep it quiet. ”
“You mean I should listen, even if it’s treasonous?”
“Treason is a blow that comes unexpectedly. If you know your heart well, it will never be able to do that to you. Because you’ll know its dreams and wishes, and will know how to deal with them.
“My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer,” the boy told the alchemist one night as they looked up at the moonless sky.
“Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second’s encounter with God and with eternity.”
From The Alchemist

-know your heart

To The Reminiscent Man

To the reminiscent Man;

 That always went Back
Foraging through his mind,
making a mess of the place

To make amends to no ends
cant you see
the Past never ends

You search there
for peace, substance
but I can only see what is Here
A Presence untouched

In retrospect,
 the time you are spending
 is only your own
and mine and his,
when will you look upon this time,
and change this end.

As the future goes
It will never come
you are alive
 in each heart beat.
Whether you choose to live them or not.
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In the end we have to follow the way our blood runs.
because it only runs one way.
Our heart will only beat so many times
The years just keep passing.
you cant go back.
Only forward.