Essential Wholeness

“We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreparably broken.”

― John Green, Looking for Alaska

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You are broken

the preachers cry

we are wounded

says the wise man

however you think of it

we are identified as fragmented souls

no longer whole

and it is all too easy to concentrate

on the shards

of self that lay scattered along the road of life

and to believe that broken

is what we are

fundamentally

but broken presupposes a state of wholeness

and thus we must remember

that we come from Sacred

and return to Sacred

and we participate

in the

Divine

and we carry within us

an essential wholeness

and thus we can

never be

irreparably broken