Aloha builds bridges not walls. Each act of kindness is a stone for that pathway. Someday, a student, parent or colleague might walk “across” the stones you are carefully laying each and every day. They might find their lives changed forever because of your unconditional love and inclusive acceptance. In fact, could it be that without your bridge of love a person might not be able to progress in their lives?
To build a wall, one stands. To lay a pathway, one must be on his knees. Only through humility can a bridge be built. Being vulnerable with your love is dangerous, though. C. S. Lewis said,
“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket—safe, dark motionless, airless—it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable…”
Aloha love knows what it is to have a heart wrung and broken but knows nothing about a heart that is unbreakable or impenetrable.
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