Arthur says:

“You have to listen here, Margaret.”

Margaret is caught in a place where all she knows doesn’t quite account for her experience. The ‘known world’ is breaking down for her. She’s begun a journey into a place of confusion and uncertainty. Arthur seems to have insights into her life that shouldn’t be possible – Margaret’s beginning to wonder if she’s losing the plot altogether. It’s crisis time, where the old ways of accounting for what’s real or not don’t seem to be cutting the mustard.

In response, Arthur gently places a hand on her heart and tells her: “You have to listen here.”

To listen with the heart rather than the head – there’s times when this approach is called for. Though reason is a useful tool, it has its limits. “There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy,” to quote Hamlet. The heart has its own reasons, and they don’t always appear sensible.

Life has a habit of bursting our boundaries and testing our limits. Just when everything seems under control, along comes an experience or a person that doesn’t fit with anything that’s gone before. The options are to stick with a known worldview, and deny the experience, or else to allow the experience to transform the worldview. It’s dangerous territory of course, and one of those spaces where instinct and the wisdom of the heart are vital to growth.

Arthur invites Margaret to follow where her heart leads, into the unknown. She’s about to leave behind security, and to gain the unattainable. It seems to work that way.

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