I Adore People Who Look At You With Their Eyes And See With Their Heart

I like simple and transparent people, people who are able to give you the true reflection of who they are with a heart, and who, in turn, allow you to be yourself at every moment. Without a doubt, it is not asking too much, and therefore, before we also worry about finding authentic people, we must also worry about being them ourselves. It is not appropriate to wait to be offered without knowing how to offer first.

If in your day to day you meet someone who enriches life in any way: through knowledge, daily support, or that complicity that cannot be explained in words, do not let her go.

It is not easy to find people who really connect with our essence, and in turn, make our lives easier without asking for anything in return. They must be cared for as the best of treasures, as the most precious asset, because whoever lives a life from the heart can only offer honesty and reciprocity.

Inhabitants of the heart, craftsmen of integrity and empathy

Leading a life entirely from the heart is not easy. First of all, it requires having traveled a long internal journey to acquire adequate self-knowledge. Only in this way can we accept others as ourselves.

As you can guess, it is not easy to be able to offer that openness, that sincerity in which we allow ourselves to be involved, receiving that gaze from someone who knows how to attend to us, from someone who understands the language of understanding and small details. Now, what characteristics are implicit in these personalities?

• Some people think that sincere and authentic people “come from the factory” , that they are born with their own light.
• In reality, many of them have gone through a long journey in life from which they have learned to spin their interior, to grow, to mature in emotions, prudence and understanding.

• The basis of those who know how to live from the heart is one who knows how to show empathy.
• Empathy is the best tribute our social brain has offered us. I am able to recognize emotions in others because, in turn, I recognize and properly manage my own.
• Whoever is capable of offering such an integral openness, there where the gaze does not attend only a face but knows how to read beyond the physical wrapping, is also capable of feeling in his own person what we suffer, what we live.

Such exceptional “connections” appear very seldom. Now, just as you may have one or two people with these characteristics in your social circle, you   may also be like this: someone who lives life from the heart.

Living life from the heart is feeling the wounds of the world

Sometimes it is easier to live an existence with a blindfold and a heart full of patches, preventing you from feeling, while protecting yourself from painful feelings. In a way, it would be like following that famous premise of “not feeling in order not to suffer.”

We could say that true knowledge falls on those people who have suffered at some point in their lives, and have known how to act with resilience, obtaining learning, now knowing that they are stronger. Now, but sometimes, that inner strength does not mean at all that we are invulnerable to the pain of others.

• Anyone who has experienced a painful event, be it a loss, a disappointment or any traumatic event, is more sensitive to the wounds of the world, to the emotions of others.
• Their looks are wiser and more skillful when it comes to intuiting, noticing, and perceiving certain concerns in us.
• If this is your case, if you are one of those people used to feeling the pain of others in a high intensity, empathizing with those around you, you will know that day-to-day life may not be as easy as many think.

Life from the heart is more intense, purer and nobler, but sometimes it also hurts. It is not your task to save the whole world, it is not your obligation to heal more hearts than yours …

Now, we cannot forget that sometimes, there is no better balm than feeling heard, cared for and understood. If, as they say, the universe always begins with ourselves, the best way to offer love is by starting with understanding. It’s worth it.

Image courtesy Christian Shloe, Marie Cardouat