"You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens" (Rumi) - do you agree?

Originally Posted by Mr Interesting

I don't think hearts ever break... minds break and conceal themselves from love, but the loves still there... I reckon. Therefore you have to keeping breaking your mind until it opens.

This is true, however, I prefer saying my heart broke when my husband died instead of saying my mind broke or I lost my mind; sounds like insantity (it was close to it, though!) ...

The other is grief caused severe anxiety, it felt as if my heart was being crushed by an anvil ...
From my broken heart I learned to see my path clearly, restore my balance & to strive to maintain it w/everything in life ... ...

Rumi is one I will never disagree with.

Dance when your heart is broken open
for then you are free

The desolation of a broken heart is not in the least liberating . However it seems to be , I concede, learning and a part of the journey.

If it was in my gift, I would spare anyone the desolation produced by a broken heart, a masochist may conclude otherwise though.

[innerlight]

I would disagree with the quote from Rumi... A broken heart does not always yield an open heart. I know many people that do not fully love and allow themselves to love because their heart has been broken. Most that do not allow the flow of love within and out of them are because they have blocks to their love because of wounds and pains of the past.

Much strength, courage, and bravery can be found when we are hurt and have to endure suffering and pain in life.. But it does not always have to be that way, and sometimes too much of a bad thing can overwhelm and take over an individual and they stay immersed in darkness instead of living within the the balance of light and dark.

[tabane27]

I agree...Each heart break opens up all emotions, this feeling like your chest pulls in really tight to the point you feel pricks tingling all over your body. Analysing every pain felt to the point that you finally have to let go, with the release the field expands larger as you start healing.

[blackraven]

Originally Posted by innerlight

I would disagree with the quote from Rumi... A broken heart does not always yield an open heart. I know many people that do not fully love and allow themselves to love because their heart has been broken. Most that do not allow the flow of love within and out of them are because they have blocks to their love because of wounds and pains of the past.

Much strength, courage, and bravery can be found when we are hurt and have to endure suffering and pain in life.. But it does not always have to be that way, and sometimes too much of a bad thing can overwhelm and take over an individual and they stay immersed in darkness instead of living within the the balance of light and dark.

innerlight - These are my sentiments as well. Even things such as a broken trust or loss that is unrelated to a broken heart can yield a bitter person that folds inside him or herself.

Blackraven

'k -Rumi was in ectasy in his love for what he termed the "beloved" - By "heartbreak" he was talking about minor disappointments in life being his teachers and enhancing his abilities to love the beloved.

His love for the "beloved" (some may call this God) was unquenchable, and the fire burned so bright in his heart that it could use even these seeming heartbreaks as fuel for his love.