It is one of the evils of your Western civilization that you are after intellectual education alone, and take no care of the heart. It only makes men ten times more selfish, and that will be your destruction.
When there is conflict between the heart and the brain, let the heart be followed, because intellect has only one state, reason, and within that, intellect works, and cannot get beyond.
It is the heart which takes one to the highest plane, which intellect can never reach; it goes beyond intellect, and reaches to what is called inspiration.
Intellect can never become inspired; only the heart when it is enlightened, becomes inspired.
- Swami Vivekananda, Class-Talk in New York
When there is conflict between the heart and the brain, let the heart be followed, because intellect has only one state, reason, and within that, intellect works, and cannot get beyond.
It is the heart which takes one to the highest plane, which intellect can never reach; it goes beyond intellect, and reaches to what is called inspiration.
Intellect can never become inspired; only the heart when it is enlightened, becomes inspired.
- Swami Vivekananda, Class-Talk in New York
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