Have you ever had that deep sense of peace and love radiating from within you? Perhaps it came during a moment of connection with a loved one, a breathtaking view in nature, or a profound personal breakthrough. This feeling, often described as an “open heart,” is a state of immense well-being available to all of us.
Don’t give up if you haven’t felt it yet. Once your heart has burst wide open, you know what the presence of light within you feels like. If you’ve felt it once, you can feel it again.
“By practicing meditation we establish love, compassion, sympathetic joy & equanimity as our home.” – Sharon Salzberg
“To be truly happy in this world is a revolutionary act… It is a radical change of view that liberates us so that we know who we are most deeply and can acknowledge our enormous ability to love.” – Sharon Salzberg
“It doesn’t matter how long we may have been stuck in a sense of our limitations. If we go into a darkened room and turn on the light, it doesn’t matter if the room has been dark for a day, a week, or ten thousand years – we turn on the light and it is illuminated. Once we control our capacity for love and happiness, the light has been turned on.” – Sharon Salzberg
“With the practice of meditation we can develop this ability to more fully love ourselves and to more consistently love others.” – Sharon Salzberg
Here’s the key though: practice is essential. Meditation, as Salzberg emphasizes, is such a powerful tool for cultivating these positive qualities.
Through the repetition of regular meditation, we establish that this body and this mind is our most comfortable place, our home. And as our self-worth grows in the presence of our own self-acceptance, love spills from our overflowing cup onto the humans around us.
If you think you haven’t experienced living with a wide open heart yet, please don’t give up, your heart beats just like mine does, it is available to you too!
Here are some guiding mantras for living with an open heart:
- My heart is capable of immense love and peace.
- Meditation is my tool for cultivating this inner light.
- With self-acceptance comes the ability to love more fully.
- Every day is a new opportunity to open my heart wider.
The path is open to everyone. Don’t give up on the incredible potential that beats within your chest. Start your journey today, and discover the transformative power of an open heart.
Have a beautiful Friday beautiful humans!
– pierre –
Today’s LIVE meditation is: Sharing love.