Heartbreak, the greatest of misnomers, for you see, the heart cannot break. It is a muscle. And akin to all other muscles, with the pain and the pressures and the burdens it is made to endure, it grows. It expands and develops. It is rendered greater and mightier. If you will it.
The metaphorical enlargement of the heart corresponds with the increase of those attributes related to the heart;
One of such attributes is compassion.
You have seen the darkness, so acquainted with suffering and misery, you have become their friends. Now you have a choice to make. Will you inflict that tormenting ache, onto the world for resentments sake, or will you make the promise, that from now on you will be the bringer of solace?
Another of such attributes is courage.
The term courage comes from the Latin word ‘cor’, which means heart. There also exists the saying, ‘it takes heart’, a synonym for bravery and valiance. Such terms indicate the irrefutable connection that courage has with the heart. Heartbreak renders one more courageous, for it requires fortitude to remain with the pain. It takes not courage to flee from the pain nor to bury it with the endless pleasures of the world. To be courageous is to welcome it, to accept it, to embrace it. And you see, if you embrace it enough — the darkness, the filth, the shadows — amidst the warmness of your grasp, it transforms.
Alchemy was a medieval science, a precursor to chemistry. Fundamentally it was concerned with the transmutation of matter. Namely, the transformation of base metals, such as tin, iron, or copper into gold. Thus alchemy is the art of alteration, transfiguration, or metamorphosis. And the truest of all alchemy is the transformation of one’s ordinary, common, and inevitable pain into true gold. Into that which is noble and rare, into love.
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