Hello and welcome back to practicing human, the podcast where every day we're getting a little better at life.

I'm your host, Corey Miscara, and in today's episode, we are going to talk about the walls around your heart and what Rumi had to say about them.

More to come on that in a moment.

First, let's settle in together with the

sound of the bells. Okay. So... Okay, so let's start with a quote from Rumi, who said,

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have

built against it. I've also heard some commentary that there may be an additional three words

to this, where it says fully, your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the

barriers within yourself that you have built against it and embrace them. So we're going to work

off of that quote, because this invites us into three very powerful teachings.

The first is that love is inherent to who you are and ever available.

It's not something you need to create, install, or discover, no matter how much

pain or trauma you've been through. It is your nature. It's not something that someone else

creates for you. They may help open you up to what is already here, but that is what's key.

This is already within you.

And I think this is just a really potent and also beautiful reminder because I don't know about you, but at least for me, it can be very easy to forget this.

Maybe we've never even had the perspective that this could be true at all.

But when we're caught up in our day to day, part of the development of the ego structure is to be looking at all

things externally or things internally that are the cause of our unhappiness and it also then

conditions the belief that if I just changed that if I

just had more of that if I could just get that person then I'll be happy and then

maybe I'll really get to experience love but rarely is it taught to us that this space and this experience of love is inherent to who we are.

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