I want to mention Dr Howard Thurman, whose books and audio recordings I cannot praise too highly. He brought to my attention the work of Jane Steger, a little known American mystic. Here is a passage from her 1926 Leaves from a Secret Journal: “Last night as I was thinking intently about the spirit of God in each one of us and especially of that spirit within myself and in life, a curious and quite definite feeling came over me as though I had entered into another country, flowed out into something wider, passed as it were to another plane. There was nothing strained or unnatural about it, nor was there the slightest mental confusion. I was perfectly aware of myself and of the surroundings of my room, but the point of consciousness appeared to have slipped from my head to my heart, from thought to emotion, perhaps. This is the country of the heart, I found myself exclaiming!”
The country of the heart! The land of courage! Thank you, Jane Steger.
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