In our area, like many areas around the country you may tour or list properties or have buyers for million dollar or multi million dollar homes.
Pocket neighborhoods for moderate cost of living areas and more common for higher priced areas like those in some states like California. These homes fascinate me with their decorator choices of furniture and upgrades to the architecture in the way of curved stairways, wine rooms, chandeliers, and custom flooring and window treatments.
But myself being very good at sensing with my heart I often ask about the "happiness factor" of the home. I am
Sensing With The Heart In A Luxury Living Room
What I mean by that is I notice not end table photographs of a son or daughter but paintings of them in the library or study. I ask, "Why is this home being sold?" Too often I hear the reason is divorce, and sometimes the financial stress of it all come crashing down on the homeowners. I can't get deeply involved in what caused the for sale sign to pop up in the yard, but it is a sadness I feel for lives hitting walls.
Now people that get to a lot in life to have these things I don't fault them. I don't judge them as worse than a loving family living in a mobile home in comparison. Yet opulence and exterior beauty in many things in life, whether it be property, or external appearances of people (that HOT girl or guy) does not mean there is internal beauty and harmony. If we sense with our heart and not our eyes we will see truth.
Fun and smiles does not equate to happiness. Excess and flaunting material possessions belies much discord in life sometimes under the surface. Fame and wealth are not what is really important. People's outer trappings and actions and a nice appearance even sometimes deflect from deep pain and turmoil inside.
Likewise the most ragamuffin dishelved person could have the most pure and loud volume loving heart. Someone ordering take out Chinese vs. another ordering a $200 fine dining experience, they both are just people. I know this is sounding like don't judge a book by its cover preaching, but it does seem to be so true in life.
Some people take a long time in life picking up nuggets of fool's gold accepting them as valuable when in their backyard all along they had the real thing which they took for granted and risked losing with their neglect.
The point of this soliloquy is to think like blind, deaf, and speechless Helen Keller with what you find yourself with what blessings you have in life. I do think it is the right approach. To ignore the heart's sensing is a huge mistake and great tragedy I don't wish that upon anyone.
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