LOVE: BATTLE BETWEEN THE HEART AND THE MIND

"I have not always chosen the safest path. I've made my mistakes, plenty of them. I sometimes jump too soon and fail to appreciate the consequences. But I've learned something important along the way: I've learned to heed the call of my heart. I've learned that the safest path is not always the best path and I've learned that the voice of fear is not always to be trusted." Steve Goodier

Love isn't ordinary, it is astonishing and it is a pretty dominant pill, when you feel it, you really feel it. It can suspend time, making the world seem still except for you ‘two’. Love knows neither depth nor bound. It’s an ‘endless channel that sweeps you up in the whirlwind and you are never free from it’. It's a mystery that takes commitment to get unraveled.  Love feeds you more than any nourishment, you feel full in the presence of love, and it is one of the most intense emotions known to human beings.
     The most amazing thing that love carries apart from the fact that it’s never time destined is the fact that it’s something beyond our control!
      Allies are those whose interests closely align with ours and just as we have the USA and France as Israel’s best ally in our present world, as human beings, our best allies are both the Heart and the mind.
    While the mind (or our Brain) specializes in intellectual pursuits all day, the other pumps "blood”. These two allies work assiduously for a lifetime without ever taking a vacation or a day off. They both oversee complex systems that are necessary for life and one of those complex phenomenon includes our love life!
     Heart in this context is not in reference to our biological heart or the scientific heart that does the pumping and circulation of blood to different parts of our body. Heart in this context is reference to our innermost being, a place of emotions, love, peace, hate etc. I.e. our subconscious mind. People call this heart at times, the intuition, instinct and hunch while spiritually, it is the divinity within us!
    While the mind in this context can be seen as the cognitive part of our consciousness, will liken it to our brain, it does all the logical and rational thinking, it does all the mathematics and probability for us!(Why you should go for that slim black boy instead of the fat short dude and all that)
"Oga, hey, Mister, Miss, hush” our minds tells our heart, "You don’t like that girl in choir"...... Quiet! Our Heart challenges the mind, "you are over thinking this, I love her".  It's like we can feel these two separate entities inside of us! Whenever a crucial decision as that of love arises. There is this battle that happens within us, and clearly not a battle between USA and her allied forces against North Korea on Nuclear Weapon, it is the LOVE BATTLE! A war between our heart and mind, we might as well call it the world war 111!

LOVE: BATTLE BETWEEN THE HEART AND THE MIND    Picture Source(Hearts Converse)

                                               
MY OPINION!
Fannila Tobelli said and i quote "follow you heart, even though it's on your left, it's always right".
Theoretical and to be on a safer side, going with both(mind and heart) might be the best bet, i believe, because we have to keep our heart and mind happy to the best of our ability.
   The thing about going with our mind is that it’ll give us a rational and correct opinion about the subject of love, the mind makes the comparisons, reasons the rationale on the pros and cons of falling in love with that guy or lady. The mind uses past experiences and its imaginative projection of the future as a reference points to come up with a logical conclusion, but are these so called "logical conclusions" best for us? I don't quite agree!
    Love is a battle for our heart and not for our mind, "love affair" is not math, where 1+1 always equals 2, love is subjective in nature and does not require our objective mind input.
     Jean Shinoda Bolen was right when she stated “To know how to choose a path with heart is to learn how to follow intuitive feeling. Logic can tell you superficially where a path might lead to, but it cannot judge whether your heart will be in it", and definitely if your heart is not in that love, then it is useless!
     You'll probably take all the determined decisions of your life from your mind, but the motivation behind the determination will always emerge from the heart. "The heart wants what the heart wants" very literally; it needs no explanation, no justification, no lectures or analysis on what's logical or not, yes it's tenacious and mean, but at the same time, it might just give you the best experience of your life, Princess Diana opined well when she said "only do what your heart tells you".
   Our heart knows no bound of insanity, it isn't meant to be tamed! Joseph in the scriptures had a similar love battle between his heart and mind, his mind wanted to break the engagement with Mary, but the Holy Spirit ministered to his heart and he did otherwise! Logically, he would have followed his mind, but this is love, it is beyond our logic, or our well calculated analysis.
   So which do we pick between the heart and the mind? Although I consider the mind as the OS (operating system) that makes many activities simpler, i would rather much prefer to retain “my love decision" making to my heart's discretion, since no matter how smart the mind is, it can never outsmart the heart definitely because the heart gives the sixth sense!
      In our heart, we can almost know if something is a good idea, if it just feels right! And also we are reminded in Proverbs 4:23 to “Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it spring the issues of life.”
  Conclusively an anonymous author posited that " When there is conflict between the heart and the brain, let the heart be followed, because intellect has only one state, reason, and within that, intellect works, and cannot get beyond. It is the heart which takes one to the highest plane, which intellect can never reach; it goes beyond intellect, and reaches to what is called inspiration. Intellect can never become inspired; only the heart when it is enlightened becomes inspired. An intellectual, heartless man never becomes an inspired man. It is always the heart that speaks in the man of love; "  I cannot but agree to the above quoted anonymous author!
Now, it's the mind that sees! It’s the heart that feels...this is where the battle gets real, you can see and you don't get any feeling, but, once you feel, you feel! You can love what you see too, but trust me, it goes down for a very short time, it's what you feel that grows the love and takes it a long way, and that makes the heart win. The choice that the heart offers often bequeaths a convinced amount of peace in us, notwithstanding the consequence because we know, at least we did what we wanted and even when we get unaware of our state ,we know we felt something and it turned out to be what the heart  offered.