8. Сторона чувства – сердце. Важное значение сердца в жизни человека. Влияние страстей на сердце

The side of feeling is the heart. Who doesn’t know how important our heart is in life? Everything that enters the soul from the outside and that is produced by its mental and active side is deposited in the heart; Everything that is revealed by the soul on the outside passes through the heart. That is why it is called the center of life. The job of the heart is to feel everything that touches our face. And it constantly and persistently feels the state of the soul and body, and at the same time various impressions from private mental and physical actions, from surrounding and encountered objects, from the external situation and in general from the flow of life, forcing and forcing a person to give him the pleasant in all this and avert the unpleasant. The health and unhealthiness of the body, its liveliness and lethargy, fatigue and strength, vigor and drowsiness; then what is seen, heard, touched, smelled, tasted, what is remembered and imagined, what is thought and pondered, what has been done, is being done and is to be done, what has been obtained and is being obtained, what can and cannot be obtained, what favors us or does not favor us - whether it be a person or a combination of circumstances - all this is reflected in the heart and irritates it pleasantly or unpleasantly. Judging by this, he could not be at peace for even a minute, but be in continuous excitement and anxiety, like a barometer before a storm. But he felt it, and a lot passes without a trace, as you can verify by those cases that when we happen to be somewhere for the first time, everything occupies us there, and after the second and third time only. Any impact on the heart produces a special feeling in it, but there are no words in our language to distinguish them. We express our feelings in general terms: pleasant - unpleasant, like - dislike, fun - boring, joy - grief, sorrow - pleasure, peace - anxiety, annoyance - contentment, fear - hope, antipathy - sympathy. Observe yourself and you will find that there is one thing or another in your heart. But the importance of the heart in the economy of our lives is not only to passively stand above impressions and testify to our satisfactory or unsatisfactory state, but also to support the energy of all the forces of the soul and body. Look how quickly the work that you like and to which your heart lies is being done! And before the one to whom the heart does not lie, the hands drop and the legs do not move. That is why those who know how to control themselves, when they encounter a necessary task, which, however, the heart does not like, rush to find a pleasant side in it and with that, having reconciled the heart with it, they maintain in themselves the energy required for the task. Jealousy, the driving force of the will, comes from the heart. The same is true in mental work: a subject that falls on the heart is discussed more quickly and comprehensively. At the same time, thoughts swarm by themselves and work, no matter how long it may be, is not difficult. Not everyone likes everything and not everyone has the same heart for everything, but some have more for one thing, and others have more for another. It is expressed this way: everyone has their own taste. This depends partly on natural predisposition, partly - and isn’t it more? - from first impressions, from the impressions of upbringing and the accidents of life. But no matter how tastes are formed, they force a person to arrange his life in such a way, to surround himself with such objects and relationships as his taste indicates and with which he is at peace, being satisfied with them. Satisfaction of the tastes of the heart gives him peace - sweet, which constitutes the measure of happiness for everyone. Nothing worries you - that’s happiness. If a person always maintained sanity in his thoughts, and prudence in his activities, he would encounter the least amount of accidents in life that were unpleasant to his heart, and, therefore, would have the greatest amount of happiness. But, as indicated, the mental part rarely behaves properly, indulging in dreams and distraction, and the active part deviates from its normal direction, carried away by fickle desires, aroused not by the needs of nature, but by alien passions. That is why the heart does not have peace and, while those sides are in such a state, cannot have it. Passion tyrannizes the heart most of all. If there were no passions, there would, of course, be troubles, but they would never torment the heart as much as passions do. How anger burns the heart! How his hatred torments him! How evil envy sharpens! How much anxiety and torment causes unsatisfied or disgraced vanity! How oppressive grief is when ambition suffers! Yes, if we take a closer look, we will find that all our anxieties and pains of the heart are from passions. These evil passions, when satisfied, give joy, but short-lived, and when they are not satisfied, but, on the contrary, meet the opposite, they cause long-lasting and unbearable sorrow. Thus, it is clear that our heart is definitely the root and center of life. It, letting one know about a person’s good or bad condition, arouses other forces to activity and again takes the aftereffect of their activity into itself, to strengthen or weaken the feeling that determines the person’s condition. It would seem that he should be given complete power over the management of life, as is the case with many, many completely, and with everyone else, little by little. It would seem so, and perhaps by nature it had just such a purpose, but passions arose and everything was clouded. With them, our heart’s state is indicated incorrectly, and impressions are not what they should be, and tastes are distorted, and the stimulation of other forces is directed in the wrong direction. Therefore, now the law is to hold the heart in your hands and subject its feelings, tastes and inclinations to strict criticism. When someone is cleansed of passions, let him give free rein to his heart, but while passions are strong, giving free rein to his heart means clearly dooming himself to all sorts of wrong steps. Those who act the worst are those who make the sweets of the heart and the pleasure, as they say, of life as the goal of life. Since carnal and sensual pleasures and pleasures make themselves felt more strongly, such faces always descend into coarse sensuality and become below the line that separates man from other living creatures. So here is your soul and mental life from all its sides! I pointed out on purpose what should naturally be on each side and what should not be. And without reminding you, I see in you a readiness to follow the first and avert the last. And God bless! You might be interested in: