A Broken Heart, Part VI: The Broken Heart Itself

The Apocalypse Tapestry

Photograph by the author

To begin to live deeply enough to be truly human will break one’s heart.

This happens when one senses the whole of life, and everything it is. This sensation, which ought to be a natural and inherent one in every human being, is almost entirely atrophied in man.

Gurdjieff’s system of inward development was me…