Through the Crack ...

A spiritual warrior - one who faces life on earth

as a life of transformation - always has a broken heart,

for it is through the crack that the eternal mysteries enter.

Mark Nepo

Mark Nepo says that "without the places cracked and softened by experience and time, we remain too hard and fixed to be affected by life".   To be open or vulnerable to the wear and tear of life, we allow transformation to take place.  If the cracks are sealed we misrepresent ourselves and the mysteries cannot find there way within.

Too much of life is spent in hiding our blemishes rather than trying to embrace and heal them.  The goal must be to look on the inside of our own self, to discover and learn through our own flaws.  When looking on the outside, we must not judge others, but rather look through their cracks to see the mysteries they behold.