The wound is the place where the light enters you.
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One of Rumi's most widely shared images, and one of the most frequently softened. In Sufi thought the breaking of the self is not an accident to be repaired but the condition that makes illumination possible.
The metaphor is precise: light enters through an opening, and an unbroken surface has none. The claim is therefore uncomfortable rather than comforting. It does not promise that suffering has a purpose, only that the places where we have been broken open are also the places where something can now get in.