Love Breaks Down Walls

Love is the most powerful emotion there is. It is capable of changing people to a much greater extent than the power of hierarchy or the ability to convince people of words.

The highest walls ever created, beyond just the physical ones, have been torn down by this powerful emotion. Love has an incredible power that can produce deep and permanent changes within us.

The highest walls humanity can build are those of misunderstanding. When people constantly adhere to doctrines, traditions, customs, laws and beliefs, anyone can hide behind a wall of deafness.

There is no one more deaf than someone who does not want to hear, just as there is no one more blind than someone who does not want to see. No matter how many wise and kind words you offer them, people who cling to old customs or traditions will rarely accept reason because there is no other way in their heads.

That’s when the game of love comes into the picture. For even someone who has built a high and impenetrable wall around himself – based on stereotypes and preconceived notions – can find understanding, affection and flexibility in a feeling as sincere and noble as love. Love is a technique that can tear down the walls of misunderstanding.

It is strange how we sometimes feel the need to come up with reasons to define ourselves. We look for ideas from here and there – generally provided by other people – that we think represent us, and we do not worry about much else.

We believe that if we spread one or another idea, as long as it sounds coherent and grandiose, we do not need to do anything else. We internalize other people’s beliefs, customs and thoughts, and we use them to build a wall to hide behind.

This is a dangerous habit because it creates distance between us and the path to self-knowledge. Seeking security and convenience from other people’s opinions will only reveal a vague silhouette of who we really are.

Later, when emotional earthquakes shake the foundations of our existence, we are hardly prepared to understand and absorb it. In this predicament and with such a pale point of view, we miss great opportunities that life could have given us; we are not capable of confronting them because we do not understand our own hearts.

Acquired beliefs mean that we create distance from ourselves and move closer to what other people want us to believe. But it does not make us free, whole or happy.

But when true love appears and you feel as if you are floating through the air with every step you take and happiness overwhelms your heart and soul, everything you have previously learned and acquired will lose its essence and weight.

Love appears as an earthquake that misinterprets your material possessions, preconceived notions and stereotypes. There is a burning and screaming feeling in your heart, which tells you that the person who loves you – and whom you love with all the strength of your soul – is more important than anything else in the world.

And that is when you realize that you will never go back to being who you were. Love has changed you. Love has broken down all the walls you built to protect you, in the belief that they made you safe.

But love does not need walls, protection or shields. Your own happiness, which is secreted from every pore on your skin, will make you feel like the most complete person in the universe, without having to have the opinions of others to validate it.

But if you are not ready to receive love, you may experience times of uncertainty, doubt and fear. If this happens, the amazing feeling can be slowly but surely diluted, causing you to return to your old habits of false security.

Only a deep sense of self-awareness and a deep love for the person by your side, which you can trust completely, will fill the holes you sometimes fall into.

So do not be afraid to open your heart to love. Break down the walls that have risen over the years. Let true happiness and freedom help you show your true feelings.