Rumi — The wound is the place where the light enters you.
The wound is the place where the light enters you.Rumi
Attributed to Rumi
A startling reframe: the broken place is not only damage — it is an opening. What hurt you can become the very gap through which understanding, and compassion, get in.
The struggles in your learning — the part that frustrates you most — are often where the deepest growth enters. Don't rush to seal the wound; let it teach you first.
Words that widen the world
An injury, or a lasting emotional hurt.
Synonyms: injury, hurt, cut
Time, and reflection, can heal an old wound.
To come or go into a place.
Synonyms: come in, penetrate, access
Light entered through the smallest crack.
Common questions
It means our painful or broken places can become openings for insight, growth, and compassion — hardship is also a doorway.
A 13th-century Persian poet and mystic whose verses, widely translated, remain among the most-read poetry in the world.
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