THE CLOUD BREAKS TO REVEAL THE SUN.
The clouds break to reveal the sun. The seed breaks so the tree can stretch towards the sun. The shell breaks so the bird can reach the sky. So it is with you. Your heart must break so the river in you can flow to the ocean. When we see a thing, really it for the first time, our hearts break a little. If our hearts don’t break, we are not really seeing at all. And only when our heart breaks are we really fully here. Why is that? What really happens when our “hearts break”? We are finally seeing another person as they truly are. We’re not just seeing them as a pretty face or a body to desire, a mere thing, representation, idea in our minds anymore. We’re witnessing. Them. As they truly are. We really see them for the first time. Their struggles, their fragilities, their flaws. Their sadness, melancholy, desperation, shame, guilt. In that act of witnessing, really seeing, something magical happens. It’s easy to feel happiness, pleasure, delight for someone else, right? But it’s hard, dif...