Head for the crack in the wall

“There has to be a crack or nothing can get in. Only enlightenment that reaches into some dark place through a crack that had not existed before, can save us.”

          The mind, it has been said, is like a parachute, working only when it is open. In this world, the true division of humanity is between those who live in the light and those who live in darkness. Victor Hugo said that our aim must be to diminish the number of the ones living in darkness and increase the number of those living in the light. This is why we demand education and knowledge because it is these two that will help to open the parachute and ignite the fire.

Even though we live in an era of enlightenment, we are not living in an enlightened era, for many still bathe in the darkness of ignorance. The French philosopher Simone Weil wrote the following:

A man whose mind feels that it is captive would prefer to blind himself to the fact. But if he hates falsehood, he will not do so; and in that case, he will have to suffer a lot. He will beat his head against the wall until he faints. He will come to again and look with terror at the wall, until one day he begins afresh to beat his head against it; and once again he will faint. And so on endlessly and without hope. One day he will wake up on the other side of the wall.

I hope that you will have the courage to use your own understanding and allegorically “beat your head against the wall” in order for a crack to appear which may eventually allow some light to enter your mind. In this fashion, you may end up on the enlightened side and not wallow around in the darkness.

If we can only manage to make a crack,
for the light to infiltrate,
then we will enjoy our first snack,
of enlightenment, and this is what I propagate…


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