We must develop a new consciousness of the heart.
In our contemporary bottom-line society, heart-knowledge — based on feeling values, relationship, personal courage, intimations of the ineffable, a passion for transcendence — tends to be mistrusted as impractical, profitless, or nonexistent. Where is "the heart," anyway, scoffs the bird-of-prey executive, trudging joylessly on his treadmill, except under your breastbone?
The heart has been reduced once again to the visceral, but this time without any sacred connection to the powers of life and light.
— Gail Godwin, Heart