| C:21.5 | There has been a division between the language of your mind and heart. Your mind insists on thinking and learning in a certain way, a way contrary to the language of your heart, and so, like two people from different countries speaking different languages, there has been little communication and much misunderstanding. Occasionally the problems associated with a lack of a common language have been set aside when the actions needed in a certain circumstance have demanded cooperation. You see this in times of emergency or crisis of every kind. And like the two people from different countries who do not understand each other, working together momentarily diminishes the boundaries of language, and a temporary solidarity is formed through like action. At such times two strangers who are foreign to one another might recognize that the other's “heart is in the right place.” The “right place” with two people—as with mind and heart—is the place of no division. The unification of mind and heart that produces right action currently occurs primarily in crisis situations because of a lack of shared language. The formation of a shared language can thus be seen to aid in unification. |