Lars Muhl - The Wisdom of a Broken Heart

Books in English by Lars Muhl

The O Manuscript, Watkins Publishing 2013

The Law of Light, Watkins Publishing 2014

The Seer, Watkins Publishing 2012, 2nd edition: 2016

The Magdalene, Watkins Publishing 2017

The Grail, Watkins Publishing 2017

The Gate of Light, Watkins Publishing 2018

This edition first published in the UK and USA in 2021 by

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Lars Muhl 2019, 2021
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THE UNBROKEN

There is a brokenness

out of which comes the unbroken,

a shattered ness

out of which blooms the unshatterable.

There is a sorrow

beyond all grief which leads to joy

and a fragility

out of whose depths emerges strength.

There is a hollow space

too vast for words

through which we pass with each loss,

out of whose darkness

we are sanctioned into being.

There is a cry deeper than all sound

whose serrated edges cut the heart

as we break open to the place inside

wich is unbreakable and whole,

while learning to sing.

(Rashani)

You shall know the truth

And the truth will set you free.

(Gospel of John 832)

Nothing is more whole than a broken heart.

(Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Kotzk)

Dear unknown sister, dear unknown brother,

We enter the world screaming,

we pass through it noisily,

leaving behind us a terrible mess,

when our time comes to depart.

But it doesnt need to be like that.

you can always choose another way.

It starts here and now.

Because, all you are, everything you have thought

and everything you have done

has brought you to this choice and this moment.

This book is for you,

from a brother.

CONTENTS

PRESENCE & HEALING

The Broken Heart The Law of Light The Holy Grail

And the Angel said:

You have pretty well seen everything you need to. You lack nothing. Nevertheless, you continually feel something is lacking. Apart from the days when you derive pleasure from the acquisition of something new, life has no meaning. In spite of all the material comforts, life appears grey. You constantly feel as though you have missed out on something or other, or you fear that someone has taken what is rightfully yours. Even though you are fine, you believe everyone else has more or has a much better life than you. One day follows the next without any great deliverance occurring. For far too long you have lived and acted as if you were a lone individual, separated from everyone else, struggling solely for your own and your familys existence in a hopeless, meaningless universe.

But, suddenly, one day something happens.

You lose your job, are struck down by illness or have an accident. You lose everything in one fell swoop. Your grey days are suddenly transformed into darkest night. You stand face to face with hopelessness one might even say, looking death squarely in the eye. One by one your acquaintances and close friends turn their backs on you. You feel lonely and abandoned. Your dreams are shattered. Your heart is broken. You wish you were dead.

But, on the contrary, this is the point at which life begins.

Or ...

You have long been aware of your spiritual side. You try to eat healthily and live your life in a state of awareness. You have been on various alternative courses and know your way around the spiritual milieu. You read books on spiritual subjects and seek out different teachers. You have, maybe, also meditated for many years and been initiated more than once. But, despite this, you find no peace. You race hither and thither, from one tempting offer to the next. Its as if you are wandering in an endless desert of broken promises finding nothing but your own loneliness and the ringing sound of emptiness. You feel disillusioned and are about to give up.

Pause a moment. Remain where you are. Forget the escape routes for a while. Be at rest here in your heart. This is where you belong. Broken or not: The heart is your true home. It always has been and always will be. Your true teacher resides in your heart. The Holy Spirit is waiting there. Welcome. Its only now that youre ready to begin work: To walk the path of the broken heart.

Life is full of both meaning and hope. But, before we can see this, it seems we need to be hit by something hard in order to be awakened from the comatose state we have been in for so long. A voice reaches into our darkness Yeshuas:

The one who knows everything, but knows not himself, is deficient in everything.

(Gospel of Thomas, 67)

When you have lost everything and everyone has turned their back on you; when you have lost your direction and are in the utmost darkness, help is closer than its ever been. Maybe its not possible to be aware of your true potential before you have been completely and utterly stripped naked. Its not until you stand on the edge of the abyss that you wake up to the realization that you are surrounded by assistance. At that instant you become aware.

You catch the glimmer of an unknown light, a glimpse of the Divine, the touch of an angel sending its life-giving rays into your darkness. At first you believe this light to come from outside. As Leonard Cohen so beautifully writes in one of his songs, Theres a crack in everything, thats where the light gets in. This is only part of the truth. In the same way that the light can find its way in from outside when your heart breaks, its inherent light can also shine out and illuminate your life from within.

You have hidden behind the toughened armour of your heart all your life. But what is the use of that bulletproof vest when death comes from inside?

A heart whose light isnt allowed to flow freely will, at some point, kill you.

Yeshua said:

Inasmuch as you bring to light that which is within you, it will redeem you. Inasmuch as you do not bring to light that which is within you, it will destroy you.

(Gospel of Thomas, 70)

This statement also points in two directions. Yeshua isnt only talking about light, but about bringing out everything you might have within you. Even the shadows of darkness need to be set free in order to be transformed into light.

Now that your eyes are open you realise it may not always be necessary to take lifes difficulties so seriously.

Be people who pass by, (Gospel of Thomas, 42)