“God breaks the heart again and again and again until it stays open.”
Hazrat Inayat Khan (1882–1927) Indian Sufi
“I tell you this
to break your heart,
by which I mean only
that it break open and never close again
to the rest of the world.”
Source: New and Selected Poems, Vol. 2
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