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- noun The state or quality of being
heartful .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Fear may close the heart, but courage comes out of heartfulness, out of releasing resistance.
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Fear may close the heart, but courage comes out of heartfulness, out of releasing resistance.
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Fear may close the heart but fearlessness comes out of heartfulness, out of releasing resistance.
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It is precisely what it pretends to be, nothing more or less -- "a book of the heart;" there is nothing grand in it, but there is a purity of thought and feeling we have rarely, if ever, seen surpassed -- a genuine heartfulness; for he writes as if every sentiment, every word flowed from the inmost recesses of his soul.
North Carolina University Magazine, Volume 1 Number 1, February 1852 1861
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Keating defines heartfulness as the cultivation of interior silence in relation to the Ultimate Reality.
The Vail Trail - All Sections Elizabeth Myers Samaritan Center of the Rockies Sp 2009
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D: It 'fun dancing on the edge of a knife between heartfulness, honesty and right down attitude.
Side-Line news feed 2009
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I was deeply touched by the speakers and their heartfulness.
unknown title 2009
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Teetering on the edge of melodrama, the film manages to maintain its balance and to achieve an effect of deep understated heartfulness. "
GreenCine Daily 2009
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