A lecture: Mind and heart (A fictional short story)

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The world-renowned philosopher, Sachledge Fermentez, was giving a lecture to all who would come to hear him, at the local University, where he had hired out a lecture theatre, for his event. Here is the text of his talk: "Our minds work with duality, and so can never know the truth. Our mind both lies, and tells the truth, its version of the truth, which sometimes does get close to the real truth, but which can never know, nor embrace the whole truth. If we believe our mind though, it never can take us past itself." "Our hearts work with unity/oneness." "All of our life's problems arise because we follow our mind's thoughts." "We attach ourselves to our thoughts, and so then think that we are our thoughts, as some people will try to tell us, that we are." "We are not our thoughts." "We are a soul, with a mind, that has thoughts." "We do not really need our mind, or its thoughts." "We need to become our real selves, our spiritual self, our soul." "Only then can we know real love." "When we can live totally from love, we do not then need our mind at all." "Our mind then falls into our heart of love, which absorbs it all away." "Love is always totally existing in a state of oneness, and when you live in the duality of your mind, you cannot then live in the oneness of love." "You can not live love fully through your mind." "Drop your mind, trust love, and be that love now." "Live love fully through your open heart of love." "Now, I would say to you at this, the end of my lecture, to think over carefully what I have said here tonight, but I will not say that, given what I have just said about thinking and thoughts here." "No, just feel any truth that you feel is the truth in my talk tonight, with your hearts, and take it home in your hearts, to be pondered over there, as you will, in good time, when you are ready to understand these truths about your mind, your thoughts, your heart, and your soul, and how they can all work hand in hand with love." Photo Credit: The photo used in this article was sourced from the free media site, pixabay.com Does philosophy hold any truth within its ideas, or is it all just really mumble-jumble, not really real-world stuff? You will have to answer that question for yourselves. But, will you use your mind, or your heart to answer it for yourself, that is the real question to be asked, and answered here, or perhaps, more felt. What we feel often trumps our thoughts every time!