Leonard Cohen’s Prayer: Letting the Light In Through Life’s Cracks

The happiest moments of life come through our cracks.

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There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in. - Leonardo Cohan

According to the Orthodox priest Anthony of Sourozh, the goal of prayer is vulnerability. It feels counterintuitive — most people pray for protection. We ask to be guarded from evil, hemmed in on all sides — not the other way around.

And yet we all know that total…