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One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious …This procedure, however, is disagreeable and therefore not very popular. - Carl Jung
The only obsession everyone wants: “love.” People think that in falling in love they make themselves whole? The Platonic union of souls? I think otherwise. I think you’re whole before you begin. And the love fractures you. You’re whole, and then you’re cracked open.” - Philip Roth
When our hearts are most broken, they’re most open. It’s the openness that makes us whole. This is the way we become enlightened through the darkness. - Miriam Greenspan
There is a crack in everything; that’s how the light gets in. - Leonard Cohen
"- Thanks to SirRichard’s for posting about this here - Heart Broken? It’s How the Light Gets In - and inspiring me to look up some of these quotes to share with the Internet.
