“In the language of sacred tradition, the emotional center carries the “reconciling” force. It serves as a bridge between the mind and the body and also between our usual physical world and this invisible other realm. When properly attuned, the emotional center’s most striking capacity, lacking in the mind alone, is the ability to comprehend paradox. Logical inconsistencies that the mind must reduce into a simple “either-or” can be held by the heart in “both-and” — and even more important, felt that way – without needing to resolve, close down, or protect oneself from the pain that ambiguity always brings.”
–Cynthia Bourgeault, The Wisdom Way of Knowing, p. 35
