The Heart Of The Matter

This book (The Heart Book) is the result of a willingness to listen to and follow my heart; to participate in a Great Collaboration of Love; to fulfil an assignment that was meant for me.  Like my personal thesis as a student of life, it is a reflection of my spiritual journey, a path with heart.

Perhaps something was activated in me from the shock of my surprise party for my fiftieth birthday that prompted me to quit my job and begin an exciting new chapter in my life.  It felt has if my own heart had opened, which prompted me to wake up every morning feeling great inspiration and enthusiasm to write. The words flowed easily and effortlessly, like an idea whose time had come.

I didn’t know it was going to become a book, as it didn’t come out linearly.  All the themes were about the love I was feeling in my heart, and that was what was guiding me.  Somewhere in the process of writing, I realized the common thread was about the multi-dimensional nature of the heart, which later became the topic for each chapter.  Like the cover of the book, the chapters are like hearts within hearts, delving deeper and deeper into our hearts, until we get to the “heart of the matter”.

 

Chapter One:  A Change of Heart  (Shift Happens)

Chapter Two:  Revolution of the Heart  (Empowerment)

Chapter Three:  The Spiritual Heart  (Awakening the Heart)

Chapter Four:  The Compassionate Heart  (Love Heals)

Chapter Five;  The Intelligent Heart  (Imagination and Science)

Chapter Six:  The Biological Heart (Microcosm of the Macrocosm)

Chapter Seven:  Humor and The Happy Heart (An O-pun Heart)

Chapter Eight:  The Heart of the Matter (Only Love Is Real)

I visualized the completed collages in my minds eye to illustrate each chapter, months before they were actually manifested.  Although I had never made collages before, the images in my mind were so clear and colorful, that I trusted the process that would bring them into being. It was quite a creative process to collect all the individual pieces and put them together to form a whole “peace” of art.  The rainbow heart was the center-‘peace’ in each collage, which I hand made from color construction paper for each one.  I was dedicated, determined, and focused to see it through, all the while asking for help from Spirit to work through me.