02/09/2019
~Heartbreak As A Spiritual Opening~
Being in love and suffering the loss of love throws us into a deep place. Our hearts are touched and we open ourselves to depths of pain and joy, to profound feeling perhaps never experienced before. Though we are all probably destined at some stage to have our hearts broken, it is less often understood that this ‘break’ enables us to ‘open’ our hearts more. And that this opening is to the Divine, to infinite love. There is a saying among Sufi’s, asking God to break one’s heart: ‘Shatter my heart so a new room can be created for a Limitless Love’. Experiencing the loss of love paradoxically, returns us to love, to the inner marriage, and to the sacred wisdom of the heart. In profound vulnerability, a deeper intelligence comes through...
Heartbreak in this sense is a sacred initiation. The journey to healing after heartbreak is well documented in great myths and stories handed down to us as part of our archetypal heritage. The journey always involves trials and tests, death (of the ego) and rebirth-new life. Part of this journey involves the willingness to suffer, and to be in exile for a while. Symbolically, we are in exile anyway because when we are broken hearted we are divided, and our search to return home to ourselves represents our healing journey. To be in exile is to be apart from others, divided within, and forced into a search for belonging...
~Awakening The Inner Lover~
We are rewarded at the end of our journey, at the end of our dark night, by Love. Our inner process, if it is fully engaged with, leads to an encounter with our inner lover, our hearts, so that our marriage is to the other, within the inner marriage. In the space left vacant by our lost love, we find ourselves...
In losing love, you will have found it.
- Benig Mauger
Art | Lauri Blank