There is an old Hasidic tale.
The pupil comes to the rabbi and asks, “Why does the Torah tell us to place these words on our heart? Why does it not tell us to place the holy words in our heart?”
The rabbi answered “It is because as we are, our hearts are closed and we cannot place holy words in our heart. So we place them on top of our heart. And there they stay until, one day, the heart breaks, and the words fall in.”
Allah says, “The broken ones are my beloved. Crush your heart. Be broken.”
Shaikh Abu Saeed Abil Kheir
And then there is my favorite quote by Parker Palmer: “Wholeness does not mean perfection: it means embracing brokenness as an integral part of life.”
That's all from me for now.
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