Rumi: “The wound is where the light enters.”
“There is a crack in everything God has made.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The crack is where the light gets in.”
Leonard Cohen
“Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light.”
Groucho Marx
“Only the wounded physician heals.”
C.G. Jung
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A plain confession of the in-working of the All, and of its moral aim. The Indian mythology ends in the same ethics; and it would seem impossible for any fable to be invented and get any currency which was not moral. Aurora forgot to ask youth for her lover, and though Tithonus is immortal, he is old. Achilles is not quite invulnerable; the sacred waters did not wash the heel by which Thetis held him. Siegfried, in the Nibelungen, is not quite immortal, for a leaf fell on his back whilst he was bathing in the dragon’s blood, and that spot which it covered is mortal. And so it must be. There is a crack in every thing God has made. It would seem, there is always this vindictive circumstance stealing in at unawares, even into the wild poesy in which the human fancy attempted to make bold holiday, and to shake itself free of the old laws, — this back-stroke, this kick of the gun, certifying that the law is fatal; that in nature nothing can be given, all things are sold.
Ralph Waldo Emerson Essays: First Series (1841)
O this is just wonderful thank you! Long live the crack!
The light heals
I think of this as; The unbridled beauty of the broken…
A powerful idea…the cracks
And Paul Verlaine … “Vois, le soleil toujours poudroie à quelque trou.”
My (rather loose) translation: “Look, the sun always finds some hole and makes the dust motes dance.”
Death is the crevice from where we can exit this wounded life, this is a complete healing from all known trauma and suffering that this world can inflict