39 pages • 1 hour read
Michele HarperThe Beauty in Breaking
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more.
EpilogueChapter Summaries & Analyses
Epilogue Summary
In the brief Epilogue, Harper reminds readers that brokenness can be a gift, one that can forever change our outlook on own lives and on the lives of all around us. By deliberately pursuing healing, we can recover from our wounds, whatever they may be. Harper quotes Hazrat Inayat Khan, as in her Introduction, this time citing the following passage: “There can be no rebirth without a dark night of the soul, a total annihilation of all that you believed in and thought that you were” (278).
Epilogue Analysis
Harper reemphasizes the notion that brokenness can lead to a more profound understanding of our lives—and that recovery from any wound is possible if we deliberately pursue healing. The Hazrat Inayat Khan quotation implies that personal redemption is essentially impossible without breaking apart and eventually reconstructing after reevaluating beliefs and even convictions.
