Wearing your heart on your sleeve is an act of courage and vulnerability that transcends time and tradition, urging us to embrace love in its purest, most abundant form — without fear, judgment, or limits. It reminds us that love is the binding force of all things, and that the choice to share it freely or withhold it is ours alone.
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It’s worth wearing your heart on your sleeve, courageously. This notion, born of chivalry and knighthood, echoed through Shakespeare’s Othello, and like all idioms, it has evolved to reflect our own perceptions, cultures, and meanings — constantly reborn as language shifts.
Emotion is constant, beyond the limits of language. Feeling is risk, and vulnerability is strength. Whether we carry the scarf of a loved one on our arm, wear a totem of their love around our neck, hold the hand of a child, or create space for the love of all humanity, it is always rooted in the most sacred and transcendent of energies.
Love is the ethereal glue that binds us. We give it many names, and we often try to control, compartmentalize, or reserve it — “some deserve it, most do not.” What a strange and complicated game. Love isn’t cowardly, nor is it in limited supply. We simply practice withholding it — from ourselves, and from the world.
Dare to challenge these paradigms. Move beyond the instinctive impulse to fear and defend. Question judgments and prejudices. Allow the heart on your sleeve to reclaim its seat in your soul. Let it reignite your confidence, tapping into the effortless, abundant flow of lightness.
Even the darkest hatred is fleeting, as transient as the birth and death of the universe. The choice is yours: to live in pain, or to let go.
Solvitur ambulando