Kintsugi ~ Imperfectly Perfect.

The broken ones appear here. Labouring under the misapprehension that something is broken; that something is missing. That they are somehow not whole. That the wound needs healing. In Kintsugi, which is the Japanese art of mending broken objects, the Japanese believe by using Gold or Silver as an epoxy, the break is aggrandised. The idea being that something damaged and having history becomes more beautiful.

Similarly, Rumi states, “the wound is where the light enters.” Both viewpoints celebrate our imperfections and our flaws. Both see them as portals to transformation; not something to be hidden or used to limit ourselves, but instead to be celebrated. To celebrate and honour that which we once felt limited us, but when seen, is in fact the catalyst that sets us free. The flaws that caused us to seek, to ponder, to enquire and in seeing that this wound, this break, this reminder caused us to go free. To remember our true nature. To finally rest as we truly are.