What an interesting question – I think these are not one and the same but either can help the other along – in that if your heart feels for someone, it is easier to open your mind to their situation or their beliefs – I think that when we feel genuine emotion from another, even if we don’t agree, we are more likely to say ‘okay, we don’t agree, but they’re a good person’. When you have an open mind, it is easier to open your heart to people that everyone else has turned away from – in my life, this pathway occurs more often…generally speaking, because I have an open mind, I share my life with people others consider to be the fray of society…and my heart has been all the better for it.