Phōs

Restless Heart

Chapter 31 · Smoking Flax · John Wright Follette · Bibliothēkē

The first vocation of personality is expression. We are forever getting out from the tangled confines of our nature. No one is happy even in the natural until he finds adequate and proper channels through which he may express himself.

The subtle joy of moving out and putting into manifestation the emotions of our hearts and thoughts of our minds is the release each one seeks, and not too many find. All of us suffer more or less because we cannot express our feelings. Some have capacity for various emotional experiences and suffer for the lack of power to voice them. The reaction in some temperaments amounts to habitual restlessness and heartache. There are too many round pegs in square holes. The pain and tragedy of misfits in life have be­ come chronic in the race. But the desire to get out and away must not be indulged to the neglect of finding the satisfaction and acquaintance of our own hearts.

We must first learn to live with ourselves. So few know the art of sharing life and its problems with their own hearts. Youth is deluded in thinking the Elysian fields are yonder-ever yonder. No, they are in your own heart. But they must be discovered and traveled. Rest is not in things or people, but in the heart at home in God.

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