This story is about how humanity forgot that we are all one and started fighting and hurting each other. A voice was then heard calling everyone to listen in silence, where they found peace, love and healing. They realized they are all connected and set out together in love to help others remember and heal as well, so the journey of remembrance and unity continues.

1. The Journey
of the
Heart
by Charles O’Malley

2. A story about how we forgot who we
are and where we come from...
...and about how we might remember

3. Advice to the reader
This story is a meditation –
your enjoyment of it will be
enhanced if you find a quiet
place and read it slowly and
reflectively.
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5. This is a message…

6. …and a prayer

8. In the beginning…

9. …was the Heart

10. And the Heart was
LOVE

11. And the Heart was
All

12. And the Heart was
One

13. Then…

15. The One
became
Many

17. And the Many
set out together
on a journey

18. After a while…

19. …the Many
forgot…

20. …that each was
part of the One…

21. …and there was fighting

22. …and words like daggers

23. …and looks
that could kill

24. And the hearts of parents
started
stepping
on the hearts of children

25. And the hearts of teachers
started
KICKING
the hearts of pupils

26. And the hearts of men
started
STAMPING
on the hearts of women

27. And the hearts of managers
started
JuMpInG
on the hearts of employees

28. And soon…

29. …the children’s hearts
were trampling on the
parents’ hearts, the pupils’
on the teachers’, the
women’s on the men’s, and
the employees’ on the
managers’

30. And in each heart
there was...

32. But the pain
was largely
self-pity

33. And so
(of self-pity)
the pain
pushed all the hearts
away
from each other

34. And there,
far apart,
they tended their wounds

35. And some
even died

36. While others turned
to stone…

37. And this went on and on…

38. …and on…

39. …and on

40. AND ON

41. But then…

42. a voice was heard…

43. …and the voice
said…

45. And the voice was heard
in EVERY heart

46. But none of the hearts
knew from where
the voice had come

47. Not knowing from where
the voice had come, some
chose to ignore the voice
and they continued…

48. …with fighting
…and words
…and looks

49. But some chose
to heed the voice

50. They stopped

51. And they listened

52. And this is what
they heard…

53. [… silence …]

54. […]

55. […]

56. […]

57. And in the silence
they encountered peace

58. and in the peace
they met LOVE

59. and because of the LOVE
…

60. …they saw each
other’s wounds…

61. …and felt
each other’s pain

62. And through the pain,
because of the LOVE,
within the peace,
engulfed by the silence…

63. …they were healed

64. And they turned their
backs on their ways of old

65. And so that time
became known as…

66. THE
GREAT
TURNING

67. And in that time of
The Great Turning
each heart looked
at all the other hearts
and this is what they saw…

69. And when they looked
a little harder…

71. And when they
really, really looked…

73. And in that moment
they remembered
that…

74. The
Many
were
All

75. was
All
One

76. And the
One
was…

77. LOVE

78. And so together
they set out, in LOVE,
to nurse the broken hearts
that still lived in the
land of forgetting
so that they too might turn

79. …and so the journey
continues

80. Charles O’Malley
charlie@yellamo.com
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