Are there any simple books or resources on the following philosophical entities?

[sepgs2004]

Wishes in our Lord Jesus Christ.

I would like to know more about the definitions of the mind, the heart and their differences.

I did find lots of information online. Most of them gets too abstract and theoretical. Some of them are not in the context of spirituality. May be I am new to these ideas.

Sometimes, I think that we could safely say that these ideas seem to exist (and possibly needed to exist) only in the books. In the outside (practical) world, people many times use the words mind and heart interchangeably. In some of the spiritual books, the reader is assumed to know the differences between these two.

Maximum at this point, in order to get a basic understanding of these, I am fine to spend about 20 hours of reading with research.

Can you help?

 

[blase6]

Wishes in our Lord Jesus Christ.

I would like to know more about the definitions of the mind, the heart and their differences.

I did find lots of information online. Most of them gets too abstract and theoretical. Some of them are not in the context of spirituality. May be I am new to these ideas.

Sometimes, I think that we could safely say that these ideas seem to exist (and possibly needed to exist) only in the books. In the outside (practical) world, people many times use the words mind and heart interchangeably. In some of the spiritual books, the reader is assumed to know the differences between these two.

Maximum at this point, in order to get a basic understanding of these, I am fine to spend about 20 hours of reading with research.

Can you help?

Mind and heart usually mean the same thing in one sense.
Sometimes, “heart” can mean one’s feelings or passions. “Mind” means one’s awareness.

 

[GEddie]

This is a hard question because the terms have changed in meaning somewhat since Scriptural times.

We consider our “mind” to be all of the conscious, subconscious and sensory processing in our life, mostly if not entirely residing in our heads; and the “heart” as being either the body-organ of blood or the emotional self (although emotion very often also resides in our head).

Scripturally, the heart was perceived as the center of thought, and only conscious intention was assigned to the “mind”.

ICXC NIKA.

 

[MyNameIsDan]

This is difficult to answer. In philosophy mind, the “mind” can sometimes be interchanged with “soul”. It is a bit off, however, to interchange mind with heart (the way I see it, anyway). To begin with, what is heart? When someone refers to heart, do they mean emotion or something else? The mind seems to be more associated with reason (if we take it in the usual sense – not interpreting the mind as equivalent to the soul).

I don’t like referring to Wikipiedia, but here is something that might help get you started.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logos_(Christianity

“Catholics can use logos to refer to the moral law written in human hearts. This comes from Jeremiah 31:33 (prophecy of new covenant): “I will write my law on their hearts.” St. Justin wrote that those who have not accepted Christ but follow the moral law of their hearts (logos) follow God, because it is God who has written the moral law in each person’s heart. Though man may not explicitly recognize God, he has the spirit of Christ if he follows Jesus’ moral laws, written in his heart.”

Depending on how you view it, you can see the interplaying of mind and heart.

I hope this helps!

 

[sepgs2004]

Thank you