The harder the mental wall, the more emotional harm it will do. Not to other people, but to ourselves. We suffer for it.
We sometimes build the illusion of walls around our hearts to protect us from pain.
Funny thing about those walls – we create them to keep hurt out, to protect our deepest vulnerabilities, to prevent us from having our emotional wounds exposed.
I’ve learned to see the walls for the illusions they are. They don’t really keep anything out. In reality, they trap all the hurt inside, and then eat away at us from the inside out.
A long, slow, painful death of spirit.
The harder the mental wall, the more emotional harm it will do. Not to other people, but to ourselves. We suffer for it.
So, then, what sense does it make to keep those walls around us? Or to even build them in the first place?
If I want to walk in harmony in the world, be at peace, find inner silence… I must learn to be vulnerable. That means tearing down the walls I’ve built around me.
THE CONVERSATION: Let's Talk About Walls Don’t Really Keep Anything Out
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