On mystery and wonder in the sacrament of our hearts.

Thought has blocked the heart from feeling, and has led us into this horrid realm of sense-less suffering. As Colin Wilson observes, "...the man who thinks too much is likely to go to exhausted extremes where the world becomes a shadowy paradigm of ideas."(The Outsider, p179).^{^[12]}

And so we see that only through the openness of true ignorance will the mind humbly take the back seat on this spectacular journey, then myth and dream will regain their transformative powers, the feeling heart will lead us through our days, and life will truly be lived again. "For it is a universally admitted truth", says Anatole France, "that it is unhealthy to think and that true wisdom lies in not thinking at all."^{^[13]}

True wisdom is not 'wise', in the regular sense of the word; wisdom belongs to the individual who, through grace, serendipity, fate, or longing, finally succeeds in shutting off the mind and living by the heart, and that individual is born to another way of living and becomes a living example of Life, and is as it were, 'established’, or, shall we say, ‘dumb-founded’.

"The sacrament of ignorance", declares Richard Moss, "is an acknowledgement of this. It is a turning to that which is in our hearts." (The Black Butterfly, p37)

Notice that ignorance is a 'sacrament', it is the absolution of the absence of solution- the innocent return from the sin of arrogant knowing. It allows, as Phil Cousineau suggests, “The beauty made visible by seeing with the eyes of the heart.” (Art of Pilgrimage, p103)^{^[14]}

When the mind finally shuts down and the soul flowers, the wonder of life cannot help but spill out everywhere. This wonder is raw religion; we do not worship a far-off Mystery, we are the Mystery of ourselves; and the temple is any true being operating naturally through an innocent sense of harmony and.

[12] This understanding is similarly proffered by Hyemeyohsts Storm, one of the wise elders of the North American Natives- a people who have always lived closer to nature, and therefore closer to the natural way of being: “To Touch and Feel is to Experience. Many people live out their entire lives without ever really Touching or being Touched by anything. These people live within a world of mind and imagination that may move them sometimes to joy, tears, happiness, or sorrow. But these people never really Touch. They do not live and become one with life.” (Seven Arrows, p7)

[13] Haggard proclaims, "...thinking can only serve to measure out the helplessness of thought."(SHE, p119). And the kun byed rgyal po'i mdo states, "The main point of not thinking is to abide from the primordial in a sky-like [state]."[brackets are translator's] (p108)

[14] Henry Miller concurs, declaring “If you’re trying to improve your mind, stop it! There’s no improving the mind. Look to your heart and gizzard- the brain is in the heart.” ( Tropic of Capricorn)