"Follow your heart" as the saying goes, but can the heart deceive you? What is your experience?

Answer 1

yes- your heart can deceive you.

For instance, Bush followed his heart and believed that if he could depose the evil dictator, Iraq would break out into a free, western democracy, and the remaining arab states would follow.

Nice idea- but lacking in a dose of reality.

Answer 2

And what do you mean by "deceive"? If you felt deceived, that means that your heart has led you to some place which your mind doesn't like. If the mind knew where is the right place to take you, what's the point of listening to your heart, then? Of course you're gonna feel deceived when you follow your heart. The heart and the mind are always in conflict; they never agree with each other. But the heart knows better than the mind. You heart tells you do this, but your brain gets scared and tells you, don't do it. Well, duh, you're gonna feel deceived. If you listen to your heart, don't listen to your mind.

Answer 3

Always question your feelings, because as you say 'the heart can deceive you' for all sorts of reasons. Safety between head and heart I think. x

Answer 4

I think that you can be deceived by your heart when your natural instincts to find a mate take over.

Answer 5

The bible says that the heart is deceitful above all things. this is my own experience sometimes what l thought was good motivation for doing something turned out to be selfishness. dont follow you heart it will lead you astray

Answer 6

I take it that you are talking about decisions which are essentially to do with your emotional and spiritual well being and that you need to process them not on an abstract intellectual level but in terms of a true awareness of how you feel.
While our feelings can mislead us - especially if they really are reactions, like fear for instance - over time they really do give us a true guide as to our best interests.
In matters of love the heart is a guiding light, because it really does tell you about what and whom you really feel comfortable with; and being at ease is critical to ones sense of well being.
I think love develops in a comfort zone in terms of relationship although ultimately the journey of love continually challenges us out of that zone to being bigger.
Essentially two people are building a bridge towards some shared space and it has to be a two way process. It's like building a castle in the air. Love cannot be built on either parties home turf - on their terms as it were; it involves a lot of outreach and that outreach ends up shifting ones centre of gravity towards the agreed centre point.
Imagine love as a suspension bridge. While it has two pillars from which it is suspended - which always exist independently; both of necessity standing tall - it's true value is in the bridge that traverses the space between; this is the medium of exchange. The value of the bridge lies in the corridor which is neither one nor the other, constructed from what has been shared and developed through mutual outreach.
It involves both pillars shouldering the exchange and allowing the passage of life between them. It is truly a sacred exchange and the most noblest of all human pursuits; to build love and allow life and time cross into tomorrow through it, ultimately beyond the parties to love itself, into other futures.
I hope it's love you're talking about and you find the grace to work the decisions you are about to take into life. The decision is a decision to reach towards an other who is reaching back. Embrace signifies that the reaching is occurring and the binding is taking place. So if you find yourself in loving embrace frequently with another whom you love then you need for the sake of your true well being to commit to the relationship. Not to do so would be like closing the Golden Gate bridge to traffic five days of the week, because you feel you only need to use it at the weekends.

Answer 7

No, only your own mind and someone else can deceive you. People have an extremely difficult time trusting their intuition..their hearts as their minds will try to rationalize and analyze what their intuition has told them.

Answer 8

If you follow your heart, it will prevent you from doing anything bad. If you are thinking in terms of love, well lets just remember love can blind you, so try to keep your brain activated too. Fell madly , blindly in love when I was 20, lucky for me, it has worked out great.

Answer 9

The heart can cloud things but its better to feel your way around a bit than look at everything with logic. It'd lead you to a boring point of view if you did either one completely. Think but feel! Is what I think.

Answer 10

When you refer to your heart, you actually mean your soul. Your soul usually desires anything, that will benefit yourself. So yes, you can follow your heart and be decieved. The only possible way to not be decieved is to follow God's leading.