We believe that our heart breaks because we have opened it, some may even vow to never be open again, but indeed the heart breaks because we did not open it far enough.
The heart that is confined to only those near and dear is a heart that will get broken.
Some may say “no, my heart breaks” when hearing news of the suffering of others across the globe, but does it truly break? Quickly, their suffering passes out of your awareness just as it had passed into your awareness.
Unfulfilled expectations concentrate to form a narrow field unleashing heartbreak, much the same way that concentrating the passage of water brings more power to it.
We want to only love what we think is good, but how would the experience of goodness have come about without its opposite?
Like a kaleidoscope that is ever changing the many views of life are unknown to us. The truly opened heart can make no judgments.
All of life comes and goes. A heart which holds tightly to expectations also holds the inevitable disappointments.
Mend your heart by expanding it far beyond your current boundaries. Do not fear that expanding your kindness, love and compassion will diminish it or water it down, instead your heart will grow stronger and encompass much more.
