The line "a crack in everything" seems to come from a book by Jack Kornfield on buddhism. The story is that a young man who had lost his leg came to a buddhist monastary thing, and he was extremely angry at life, and always drew these pictures of cracked vases and damaged thing, because he felt damaged. Over time, he found inner peace, and changed his outllook, but still drew broken vases. His master asked him one day: "Why do you still draw a crack in the vases you draw, are you not whole?" And he replied
"yes, and so are the vases. The crack is how the light gets in"
@neptune235 Nice story, but Spike Milligan, a decade or more before Cohen wrote Anthem, said "Blessed are the cracked, for they let in the light." I think Cohen adapted and improved that.
@neptune235 Nice story, but Spike Milligan, a decade or more before Cohen wrote Anthem, said "Blessed are the cracked, for they let in the light." I think Cohen adapted and improved that.
The line "a crack in everything" seems to come from a book by Jack Kornfield on buddhism. The story is that a young man who had lost his leg came to a buddhist monastary thing, and he was extremely angry at life, and always drew these pictures of cracked vases and damaged thing, because he felt damaged. Over time, he found inner peace, and changed his outllook, but still drew broken vases. His master asked him one day: "Why do you still draw a crack in the vases you draw, are you not whole?" And he replied "yes, and so are the vases. The crack is how the light gets in"
@neptune235 Nice story, but Spike Milligan, a decade or more before Cohen wrote Anthem, said "Blessed are the cracked, for they let in the light." I think Cohen adapted and improved that.
@neptune235 Nice story, but Spike Milligan, a decade or more before Cohen wrote Anthem, said "Blessed are the cracked, for they let in the light." I think Cohen adapted and improved that.