我的「心」在哪裡? 「心靈」又在哪裡？

當你想著「我的心」的時候，你想的是「心臟」還是想著「腦袋」？
當我們說某個人很有「心」，這個「心」又在哪裡？
說著某個人、事、物觸動「心靈」的「心靈」又在哪？

最近在看拿破崙．希爾(Napoleon Hills)的「思考致富聖經(Think and Grow Rich Action Pack)」，是一本成功學的絕對老經典，早在1937年就第一次發行了，據說全球銷售超過3000萬冊(書皮上的廣告)，我手上的版本是2005年9月的第十三刷，這個中文版是2001年6月第一刷。其實之前就看到許多書上都有推薦這本書，作者的名字也不是第一次聽到，但是是一直到最近才在網路上買了這本書，很多非常值得一讀的想法，有空再進一步探討。
但真正引發我寫這篇的倒不是這本書，嚴格說來其實只是這本書上其中一句話，裡面提到了福特先生的成功是因為：

「福特有心，而且控制了這顆心。其他的人也有心，但他們卻不曾試著去控制它。」

讀過了這句話，我忽然問自己並且想著：「心」到底在哪裡？摸著胸膛，但卻覺得這顆跳動著的心不過是身體其中一個重要的器官，但不是這所講的心；摸著頭，卻又不覺得腦子裡的思想能夠代表這個「心」。但有種感覺是，這個「心」似乎存在於這兩個「心臟」跟「頭腦」之間，也許是他們的混合體？似乎是一連串無止境的問號...

雖然我沒辦法搞清楚這顆心在哪裡，卻不代表我感覺不到，這樣一想好像也沒有解決任何疑問，反而讓這事情更奇怪了。幾乎真切的感覺它的存在，但是又說不清楚到底存在哪裡，好像不存在任何地方，卻又確實是存在某處。

不知道大家對於「心」在哪裡有什麼看法～

改變產生需求，需求產生商機

「改變產生需求，需求產生商機」：每個周遭環境的大小變動都影響著生活，而這些變動所牽動的是需求的變化，當新的或不同的需求產生之後，這個空洞或空隙就有被填補的需要，而由此衍生的服務或是產品的流通就產生了所謂的商機。
雖然只是看似簡單的道理，但是能夠看到而且善加利用機會的人卻不是那麼普遍。
願自己成為看到這些改變而且付諸實現的人！

PJ

Our Deepest Fear

Saw part of this quote from the movie "Akeelah and the Bee". Sometimes, we all need some kind of encouragement to go on and a reminder to trust ourselves and shine...

Our Deepest Fear
by Marianne Williamson from A Return To Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”

Heroes?

Heroic movies or fictions have the tendency of focusing on life and death of the so-called "heroes" or the main character. Of course a story gotta have its focus, but I can't help myself thinking about all those "unimportant" characters, which has been shot in the head or blown up. And, it seems that no one else matters at all except the lead character.
How is ones's life more important than another? Why care about one's background, feelings, values or struggle, while all the other people seem to worth nothing at all.
To think a little bit deeper, should that sad security guard whose neck was snapped by the "hero" have a family of his own? What about his wife, his kids, his parents? Does he know he's working for the "bad guy"? Though a story doesn't have the endless paragraphs or chapters to waste on every single character's sad little story, the omission still seems way too rude for the dead. Afterall, those unimportant characters can be anyone of us or people around us and close to us.

Maybe, just maybe, people are too in need of idols or the chance to forget about their sad little lives. With that been said, I am probably just another one of them.

Where?

How should I put them all together?
Pieces of the wondering soul simply scattered.
Life is sometimes described as the making of one's will yet it might appear as fate in some instance.

Which can penetrate one's heart deeper, a touch or music?
One touch can find its way through all the interconnected cells to deep down inside.
Music somehow fills up the room with its own particles, there's no escape except taking every breath with it.

People try to think about the world as a whole all the time, even though we all only occupy such a small space at a time.
What if it's not the presence that counts, but how many hearts that's been reached.

Do people live inside the words they said or wrote?
Do they leave a secret passage to them on their painting or sculpting?
Can we hear them in the music that they once composed?