A story about how we forgot who we are and where we come from - and about how we might remember.

1. The Journey
of the
Heart
by Charles O’Malley

2. A story about how we forgot who we
are and where we come from...
...and about how we might remember

4. This is a message…

5. …and a prayer

7. In the beginning…

8. …was the Heart

9. And the Heart was
LOVE

10. All
And the Heart was

11. One
And the Heart was

12. Then…

14. The One
became
Many

16. And the Many
set out together
on a journey

17. After a while…

18. …the Many
forgot…

19. …that each was
part of the One…

20. …and there was fighting

21. …and words like daggers

22. …and looks
that could kill

23. And the hearts of parents
stepping
started
on the hearts of children

24. And the hearts of teachers
the hearts of pupils
started
KICKING

25. And the hearts of men
on the hearts of women
started
STAMPING

26. And the hearts of managers
on the hearts of employees
JuMpInG
started

27. And soon…

28. …the children’s hearts
were trampling on the
parents’ hearts, the pupils’
on the teachers’, the
women’s on the men’s, and
the employees’ on the
managers’

29. And in each heart
there was...

31. But the pain
was largely
self-pity

32. And so
the pain
(of self-pity)
pushed all the hearts
away
from each other

33. And there,
far apart,
they tended their wounds

34. And some
even died

35. While others turned
to stone…

36. And this went on and on…

37. …and on…

38. …and on

39. AND ON

40. But then…

41. a voice was heard…

42. …and the voice
said…

44. And the voice was heard
in EVERY heart

45. But none of the hearts
the voice had come
knew from where

46. Not knowing from where
the voice had come, some
chose to ignore the voice
and they continued…

47. …with fighting
…and words
…and looks

48. But some chose
to heed the voice

49. They stopped

50. And they listened

51. And this is what
they heard…

55. And in the silence
they encountered peace

56. and in the peace
they met LOVE

57. and because of the LOVE
…

58. other’s wounds…
…they saw each

59. …and felt
each other’s pain

60. And through the pain,
because of the LOVE,
within the peace,
engulfed by the silence…

61. …they were healed

62. And they turned their
backs on their ways of old

63. And so that time
became known as…

64. GREAT
TURNING
THE

65. And in that time of
The Great Turning
each heart looked
at all the other hearts
and this is what they saw…

67. And when they looked
a little harder…

69. And when they
really, really looked…

71. And in that moment
they remembered
that…

72. Many
were
All
The

73. One
was
All

74. One
And the
was…

75. LOVE

76. And so together
they set out, in LOVE,
to nurse the broken hearts
land of forgetting
that still lived in the
so that they too might turn

77. Distributed under a Creative Commons license:
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
Charles O’Malley
charlie@yellamo.com