"Your pain is the breaking of the shell
that encloses your understanding."
Kahlil Gibran
Once 'mending a broken heart' meant either patching with crazy behavior, alcohol or drugs. One stitched a heart back together, wrapped in bandages never expecting it to ever love again. A spiritual author once said the heart gets broken over and over until it finally gives up and remains open ... and this was the goal all along.
If we can leave our heart open in spite of pain, we learn to equally embrace the passions and heartbreak with the knowledge we can understand and treat episodes with compassion rather than judgment.
To splay our hearts open, unprotected can be frightening but also liberating. To believe we are love itself the heart becomes our core. As we experience all of life, sweet and harsh, we develop a depth of wisdom to uplift ourselves and others.
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