“You Have To Keep Breaking Your Heart Until It Opens”- Rumi
We delude ourselves in life, thinking we can take a sincere path and not get our heart broken.
I feel like the collective are being called to ascend and return to love, love as a field for conversation, like the universe has handed us a cycle, the wheel has turned once again for the collective and it’s our time to hold love without shattering it with possessiveness or ego. (Moon cycles and all the astrological events that have synced with my
... See moreLife will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or... See more
Maria Popova • Love Anyway
I tell you this to break your heart, by which I mean only that it break open and never close again to the rest of the world.
Mary Oliver • New and Selected Poems, Volume Two
At the end of his life, the great picture book author and illustrator Maurice Sendak said on the NPR show Fresh Air, "I cry a lot because I miss people. I cry a lot because they die, and I can't stop them. They leave me, and I love them more."
He said, "I'm finding out as I'm aging that I'm in love with the
world."
It has taken me all my life up to
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