Broken Hearts(1)

Here's something i read which struck me, why it struck me would be for another day. for the mean time, here's what i read:

Only A Broken Heart is Whole

Education is not a process that continues for some years and then ends. Education has only one sovereign purpose: to prepare one for more education. All else is subsidiary to this. Education should create hungers – spiritual, moral, and aesthetic hungers for value.

There is a beautiful saying that comes to us from Hasidic lore: “There is only one thing that is whole in the entire world, and that is a broken heart.”

Reflect for a moment: Here is a world that has not yet been redeemed, a world in which there is tragedy at the root of things. How could a moral and sensitive man walk about with a heart that is not broken?

The broken-hearted—paradoxically and profoundly are the whole hearted. And the task of education… should be to break your heart. Unless it breaks your heart it is a false education, a pseudo-education. The gift of education will be a heart that is whole..

-Israel Knox-