Welcome here, home to the heart.
- Marzia Bisignani
- Oct 30, 2019
- 5 min read
Updated: Jan 21, 2020
I salute the light in your heart where the entire universe dwells. Here, Love is the essence of who you are.
The heart is where all is united, reconciled, and contained. It is the luminous fiber of life—the eternal thread that holds and connects everything together. This universal heart presence that animates all cannot be created or destroyed, defined, or measured, and, yet, can absolutely be realized to be at the silent core of all being.
The greatest possibility of a lifetime is embodying the awakened heart in the context of our everyday life.
As the heart, we already are what our spirit longs for: lasting joy, freedom, and peace. So, we must answer the following question: to what extent are we a conscious expression of open-heartedness? And if so, do we wholeheartedly embody and serve the truth of who we are in every moment?
When the heart is closed, shut down, or defended, we lose connection to life itself, to the sacredness inherent in all of being. Invisible barriers and limited identities that have unconsciously been constructed around the heart, block the light from being able to express itself, through us, fully and freely.
In an instant, the truth is obscured. Consciousness hides from itself and the inherent freedom of the being is veiled like a cloud-filled sky. Suddenly, “here” becomes the place where we cut ourselves off from life: a world of isolation where we can suffer deeply, succumb to disillusion, frustration, confusion, and even despair.
Without even recognizing it, we get entangled in a state of constant insufficiency. Fear, self-protection, doubt, and denial dominate our existence. We believe that we must search for something better or different. Yet when we think we’ve finally gotten it, we crave further, spending our entire lives trying to get more in the hope of filling the insatiable void within us.
At some point on our journey, however, the heart calls us back. The purity and innocence that exist in the heart have never been forgotten—no matter how damaged we might feel or what happened in our lives. Something deep inside us knows that the Truth lies dormant within us, and something longs to restore that awareness.
As our spirit matures, our intention to reclaim the Truth intensifies. In itself, the search for Truth is at once a beautiful and sacred yearning. It can, however, often get distorted, becoming the ache that fuels our suffering.
As we take on the identity of the seeker, we may start to believe we must fight for or against something. We imagine that we must become something other than what we are in this moment, or that we must wait for something to happen in the future for us to be able to return to that sense of wholeness that we feel we may have lost.
The harder we seek, the more dissatisfied we grow. It doesn't matter what spiritual nametag we’ve decided to attach to the search. So long as we keep escaping or denying the Truth within us, nothing will ever seem enough.
Eventually, we must choose to stop. With natural innocence, wonder, and curiosity, we begin to trust ourselves more deeply. We welcome whatever sensations, emotions, and thoughts are passing through us. We let them flow freely and simply observe, embracing the totality of our being in the softness of our heart.
Moment by moment, the mind becomes more pliant. We are willing to be intimate with ourselves just as we are; to meet ourselves freshly in the light of consciousness, where all is transformed and dissolved. Like the ocean and its waves, we are the silent heart space in which all questions form and dissolve into. In silence, we hold our physical bodies with greater compassion, forgiveness, gentleness, and patience. We stop seeking answers and start inquiring more. We begin to question the conditioned beliefs that distort our perception; we see through the assumptions we unconsciously anchored ourselves to, the safety and survival mechanisms that we use to run our lives.
We begin to perceive how we are and always have been enough; how we don’t have to be anything other than what we are in this very moment; how we are already held and unconditionally loved beyond measure; how the divine dwells in each and every one of us, even though we are part of this world.
Moment by moment, we hear the call for our attunement. We somehow come to naturally trust what is best for us, what serves our highest good, even when we can’t see the way. We learn how to hold and shine the lamp of truth, in our darkest hour.
We stop protecting, fixing, and escaping ourselves and instead chose to stand still, to tell the Truth—whatever the risk or cost. And even if we begin by merely telling a relative Truth, in the spirit of genuine enquiry, we will eventually be moved to discover what really lies under every apparent Truth. This is where emotional braveness, authenticity, and fierce integrity become alive within us.
Here, we must ask the following question: What is it that we really want? What does my life truly stand for? What is my life about? What am I living for?
The heart is where true greatness lies. The healing and evolution of humanity depend on our capacity to return to the heart and connect to its exquisite perception, intuitive wisdom, and sensitivity.
Honoring, trusting, and serving the intelligence of the heart is radically life-shifting. It is not that we become better or nicer versions of ourselves; it is simply that the heart wakes up to itself—to conscious freedom.
Conscious heart openness is the path to joy, magic, creativity, and abundance beyond what can possibly be imagined.
Let us start here, then, with a quiet, open heart, for only the silence of the heart can bear it all. Believe not one word that I say. Confirm all this within yourself, in your own experience, abiding in the frequency of the heart.
And if by chance you happen to hear me whisper something to you, don’t fix your attention on this or that definition. Words have been so corrupted by our ideas and beliefs that they fall short of what it is the heart really longs to transmit.
Simply ask yourself: What exists before, after, and during these words? What is it that reads quietly or pronounces these sentences out loud? The thinking mind doesn’t know. There is a gap, “here,” a silence to this heart space we perceive. This is the Great Unknown where this mystery unfolds. Here, in the silence of the heart.
This is not a philosophy because we cannot grasp any of this conceptually. This discovery is rooted in a kind of ‘experiential knowingness’ that is borne out of an innocent curiosity, a fresh wonder at the ineffable mystery of being.
Let us feel our way back into our depths, then. Let us live in a state of discovery. For when we stop looking to affirm our conceptual knowledge and instead become enchanted with the Unknown, the door of the heart is flung open. It is in the vastness of this heart space that all insight, intuition, and wisdom mysteriously dance.
For here is the paradox: it is only in suspending what we know that we end up truly knowing. The magic of this mystery never arises out of the need to want to prove or get anything out of it. The motivation behind the impulse to want to realize Truth arises from the profound, earnest, and pure expression of the heart. The clarity, sincerity, focus, and authenticity of one’s intention mirror the depth of this discovery. The brave heart is willing to stand in the unknown to face it all, simply and purely, for the love of Truth; not as a way to get something, prove anything, or push some agenda.
The heart already knows that separation is illusion. Yet, while the one Reality is ever-present, one must first resolve to free the heart from all fear, blame, judgment, lack, and limitation. This is why the simplicity and proximity of Truth cannot be approached in a casual or frivolous manner.



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