The world will try to convince you to close your heart – that you should always protect yourself, and avoid pain and emotion and learning and growing. One of our great duties in this life, then, is to approach it with an open heart. Though we know struggle is coming, we must receive it with open eyes and open hearts, and work toward transcendence.
Living with an open heart is not going forth without fear. Open-hearted living is knowing what to do with fear. Fear, like all ...