The "heart" for the ancient sages

"One sees clearly only with the heart
What is essential is invisible to the eye. "
A. de Saint-Exupéry

The heart, for the ancients, is not a symbol of sentimentality, but it is the centrality in which intellect, emotion and will, they find agreement in their synthesis. I do not know what Saint-Exupéry want really say, he's right about the fact that what is essential is invisible to the eye, but only to those of one who has been awakened from the Absolute. The inner eye, when it was opened from waking up, he sees the reality and truth that underlies it for what it is, without interpreting, and sees with the heart that has the support of  the intelligence. A heart that decides without intelligence could be racist so how it could  be an intelligence that knows no love. When you love without intelligence, absence which means without values in sharing​​, you are only prey of the charm of others, and it is not really love, for this will not last long as it will be straw burning their need for heat.