True intelligence is the capacity of the mind to honor the wisdom of the heart.
Pat Rodegast

René Descartes’ leading maxim of the Enlightenment period, “I think, therefore I am – Cogito, ergo sum,” has disenchanted the condicio humana and reduced the nature of the human species to its intellect and reason.

Today’s gone paranoid, egg-headed and heartless world is a product of this maxim with devastating consequences spiraling into deepening states of crisis and bringing political, social, economic and ecological unrest to all parts of the world.

The intellectualization of the world during the past three centuries has led to the decoupling of the people from their feelings. We failed to recognize that we are primarily emotional beings, and that it is in our deepest nature to express ourselves through our feelings. Emotional suppression and subjugation by mental control and the elevation of the mind as the paramount of the human nature throw us off balance and cause ultimately destructive emotional outbursts, mental disorders and physical illnesses.

Have we forgotten that it is our feelings through which we come to know ourselves and create our world? Emotions make us alive and make the world alive! Our feelings are the basic elements of life and of our liveliness. They are the essentials of what our souls are made of. Emotions animate (anima – the soul) our world. Love, joy, happiness, but also sadness, grief and angriness are the source of our humanity and distinguish us from machines, robots and computers. Furthermore, emotions are the source of creation. It is the supreme energy which generates our body cells and creates stars and causes supernova in the cosmos. The entire universe is made of emotions. The universe is one emotional entity.

Thoughts alone do not cause and create anything. However thoughts with whom we resonate with and which we identify ourselves turn into emotions in our physical body. The inwardly experienced feelings express themselves as our experience in the world with the goal to gain inner wisdom from them. Wisdom is never generated purely philosophically or through intellectual discourse.

Thus, I recommend possibly to lose our heads and listen to our hearts. The Wisdom of the Heart – in other words our feelings – is our inner guidance system we can fully entrust ourselves with. This system is always on. We only have to carefully listen to it by simply following our feelings, no matter what they are. If I feel truly good with a thought and an idea I generate, I am in sync and at peace within myself and my world. And I am fully present and living in the moment of now.

I feel, therefore I am – Sentio, ergo sum should be our central maxim for a compassionate humanity at the beginning of the 21st century and the next step of human evolution in terms of a re-enchantment of the world, in which the intellect is at the service of the heart.

May Peace Prevail on Earth.