To truly live from the heart takes a great deal of awareness. To understand that the head ought to be of service to the heart, not the other way around, can be a difficult concept to grasp. Our thinking mind is great, but has been given way too much importance in modern society. To find balance we need to go inside, feel our own heart and its tremendous power. And the secret is that the nature of the heart is to first and foremost receive, not give. The giving comes as a result of receiving. Something we as humans often get wrong. To give can become a way to be a good. A concept. An idea. Wonderful, yes, but not necessarily unconditional. Because it's when we fully receive from life, with deep gratitude and grace (not from ego) that we can fill ourselves to such a degree that the heart simply swells over. Giving will just happens from such a state. No agenda. No need. It's inevitable. I've met people who give and give, but refuse to receive. It can, if we're not careful, be a way to boost the self or clear a conscience. To fill our own heart - with the gifts available to us - may be essential, naturally creating a ripple effect of giving all around.