From the heart, to the heart

If you see your fellow Jew traveling down a self-destructive path, and you seek to set him straight but fail, the fault is yours. The reasoning behind this conclusion is both profound and simple. Our sages have declared that "words that come from the heart enter the heart." So if your words did not enter his heart, this can only mean that they were not spoken in complete sincerity. Had you been truly sincere--had you spoken with no objective in mind other than his good--your words would have entered his heart and would have had their desired effect.

Broken and whole

Only the human heart can be broken and whole at once. - Rabbi M. M. Schneerson

The Heart

A prayer (of sorts) for today from Chabad.org that resonates:

The human heart is beautiful.

The human heart can know secrets deeper than any mind could fathom.
The mind cannot contain G-d, but deep inside the heart there is a place for Him.

Yet there is nothing more dysfunctional than a brain controlled by its heart. Indeed, the finest mind is capable of the most horrid crimes when under the management of the heart.

Let the heart be quiet and hear out the mind. In that quiet listening, she will discover her true beauty and her deepest secrets will awaken.

Gods Word

Where is the Torah? Does it reside in the heavens with the angels? Or in a parchment scroll in the ark of the synagogue? Or with the rabbis and scholars?

It lives in the heart of each person who learns it, in the voice of the one who discusses it and in the life of the one who lives it.
That heart, that voice, that life - that, too, is G-d's word.

Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson זצ״ל

a contrite heart

God harkens to prayer if it rises from a heart contrite over a muddled and faulty life and from a resolute mind ready to redeem this life.

p. 63, The Lonely Man of Faith, Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik