heart or mind

Philippines
February 23, 2009 8:17am CST
Is it better to live by following your heart or following your mind? For me, I think in life there should be a balance.. Both the heart and the mind is important. But the most important thing of all is that you follow what is true to your heart and to the better of everybody.
8 responses
@didi13 (2926)
• Romania
22 Jul 11
The only function of the mind is to divide indefinitely. Role of heart is to see what unites thing mind is not capable. The mind can not understand what is beyond words, she can understand only what is linguistically correct, which is logically correct. She is concerned about the existence, life, reality. The mind is itself a fiction. You can live without the mind. But you can not live without heart. And the deeper your existence is, the more your heart is more involved.
@au_dawn (76)
• Philippines
23 Feb 09
I actually think that in making a decision both play a role. I'd probably go with the one that will give bring about peace of mind. I believe that between two choices there's always one option that dominates the other. It's like doing a list with advantages and disadvantages and once you've found out that one option has more advantages, you'd end up wishing it was the other option. You will most probably end up with an answer this way.
@jaymeeliz (505)
• Philippines
23 Feb 09
I must agree with you. There must always be a balance. In making a decision we shouldn't only think of ourselves but of other people too. We need our heart and mind to do that effectively.
@shenqixu (130)
• China
23 Feb 09
Heart is the most important part of our body, Mind is soul of a man. They exist together, Heart without soul,is just a body. Body without heart will no survive, mind can not exists at all...
@Yori88 (1465)
• Philippines
23 Feb 09
Well for me there should always be a balance between heart and mind. And since everything we do is being commanded by our brain I think brain should always have the final judgment in cases where you are having hard time with your heart. When it comes to loving someone, heart is what we always say that makes the decision but we fail to look on the other hand that it is sometimes all in our mind. I mean what we feel is sometimes confused to what we just think. So better try to make a balance with your heart and mind so that you won't regret. When I was younger I always follow my heart that I fail to think of the wrong consequences of my actions. But now I using more of my mind than my heart because I became more practical. Then my heart followed, it became tougher as time goes by.
• China
23 Feb 09
Hi,I think both of heart and mind are most important.For me,I live more by my mind,but it dosn't mean that heart is not important.it is the second most important.~~
• Philippines
23 Feb 09
I listen and follow with either my heart or my mind, depending on the situation. There are many instances when I followed my heart and later realize that it was better if had followed my mind, and vice versa. Now that I am more mature, I learned how to weigh things out.
• Philippines
23 Feb 09
The truth is.. Heart is just an accessory.. The hypothalamus is the one who controls our emotion.. and as we all know it's one of the regions of the brain.. [; that's you should say "I love you with all my hypothalamus" rather than "I love you with all my heart". That's even if you'll have some heart surgery the feelings you have for the people you love still remains it's because of your hypothalamus not your heart. [;