A common need in all human beings is the feeling and expression of love. Even people with the toughest of exteriors has a soft and sensative interior that longs for love in some way. Sometimes the world will knock you around a little but when that hard facade is challenged, a deeper, more vulerable human being stands behind the armor. All of our actions are unskillful or skillfull attempts to feel love. Even the meanest person in the world craves the feelings of love as much as you or I do. Maybe even more so. Some people believe that love can be manipulated and do not understand that love can only be won or given and received. Many times people act unloveable because they believe deep inside that they are unloveable. Relationships suffer because of this simple barrier that we sometimes carry for protection.
The language of the heart is not difficult or complex. It is actually quite simple. "The fruits of thoughtfulness sometimes remain hidden until the moment is ripe". Sometimes all it takes is a simple touch when love and understanding is communicated in a way that is beyond words. So the challenge for each of us is to reach out, to live and to act for what is real on the inside even if the reality is not apparent to our own senses on the outside. We can break down the lonely towers that stand around the hearts of people and in doing so we will indeed discover our own. We must never underestimate the healing power of the act of kindness no matter how big or how small.
