What is the Awakened Heart? This is a compelling question, Look inside yourself. The awakened heart is fundamentally loving awareness, your true nature. It’s who you are beneath all the layers of fear, judgment, and conditioning.

Imagine for a moment the heart of a young child—open, curious, full of wonder and love. This is still in you. The Awakened Heart is like this, but with the wisdom and compassion that comes from truly embracing all of life’s experiences.

The Awakened Heart can look at the world—with all its beauty and all its suffering—and respond with love. It embodies the courage to stay present when things get tough, the ability to find joy even in difficult times, the willingness to extend kindness to yourself and others.

It is what allows a mother to lift a car off her child, or a stranger to run into a burning building to save someone. It’s what moved Nelson Mandela to forgive his jailers, and what inspires countless acts of kindness every day that we never hear about on the news.

Because the Awakened Heart is vast, like the sky, it can hold everything—your tears and your laughter, your struggles and your triumphs. It’s the source of profound love, deep compassion, authentic joy, and steady equanimity.

And here’s the wonderful thing—you don’t have to create this Awakened Heart. It’s already here, waiting to be discovered, nurtured, and expressed. It’s the light that shines through when we quiet our minds and open ourselves to the present moment.

In these challenging times, the world needs your Awakened Heart. It needs your love, your compassion, your joy, and your equanimity. And you need it too – it’s the source of true happiness and inner peace.

The beautiful thing is, you can open to it, cultivate it, practice it, you can let it shine more brightly in your life and in our world.