Defenses.  You build them quite solid.  Most of all you erect them around the
heart.  “I am not safe,” you feel and so
you climb inside the protective barrier you have erected, and it is quite
real.  Nothing can get in to hurt you,
you believe, but nothing can get out as well. 
There you sit, locked in a world of your making.  But the world is not still.  Motion is the norm. 

Life flows.  Love flows, and when you sit behind your
defenses, you stagnate.  There is no
growth.  You must be brave if you wish to
grow.  You must take down the barriers
and expose yourself.  Yes, bravery
results in vulnerability as you expose the tender heart, but in so doing you
allow the flow of love in both directions, and in this there is healing.

“Mr. Gorbachev, tear down
this wall!”  Do you remember this?  And the wall came down and there was
unity.
  Child of God, tear down this wall! 
Experience the unity—your unity with All That Is, with all that you are …
with Love itself.