A small passage from a book I'm reading really got me recently so I had to share (taken from The Opening of the Way A practical guide to the wisdom teachings of Egypt, Isha Schwaller de Lubicz 1979):
The kingdom of the heart, including its channels of distribution in the blood vessels, covers the full extent of any living being both in time and space. The heart is engaged in the mysterious work of holding the whole organism in balance, which is more than a matter of blood vessels and changing pressures. To correct the effects of injury or disequilibrium it has remarkable methods of compensation justified by thousands of years of experience. This Wisdom of the Heart has come to us by heredity, as a quality of our species. The heart possesses an ability to repair damage affecting itself without for one moment interrupting the flow of energy it provides. Thus it is rightly a symbol of unfailing generosity. In the practice of cardiology we have had to recognize that the hearts power to maintain life is almost unlimited, so long as it is allowed to use its own methods and has unrestricted access to its natural resources. (Here the author makes a reservation regarding embolism of the pulmonary artery, when the heart fails because the task is practically impossible).
Only too frequently, however, the unfortunate interventions of the psyche, especially in the form of anxiety, turn the course of events into catastrophe. A strong heart, very little damaged, ahs often been known to fail in a few hours under the influence of acute anxiety.
One emotional storm can demolish completely the marvelous structure of homoestatic defenses which, with the Wisdom of the Heart, has come down to us from the depths of time.*
* Dr. Godel, L'Experience liberatrice (Paris: Gallimard, 1952)
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