Hi Anita and Alessa
Sorry for the mix up I need to pay closer attention.

I am feeling a little better Anita but still finding it difficult to concentrate. You summed up my thoughts quite well and put in a way that may be less confusing to anyone following along. 🙂

“The sun is perceived to rise and set, but reality is that it simply exists. Similarly, love exists as a constant presence independent of our perceptions and experiences

I did want to add that there is a time for everything and that I’m coming from these topics well into the second half of life. Someone in the first half of life focus may be more on the filling of the ‘crucible’ then placing it over the fire.

Hope everyone has a good weekend and happy Valentines day.

The heart is the place of union where the luminous consciousness is made. . . . Human existence must reach out to transcend the world of forms that conceal the ultimate reality. This reality lives in the heart and must be set free at whatever cost. . . . Thus to reach one’s heart, to possess oneself of it, means to penetrate into spiritual life. The operation is extremely painful, and that is why the heart is always represented as wounded, and why the drops of blood issuing from it are so significant that they alone are a sufficient symbol for it. The religious imagination reveals the broken heart as the very best means to wisdom and growth, – Laurette Séjourné