hhhhhmmmmmmm
I can't quite agree, or maybe my interpetation comes from the changes in my own spirituality over the years....
imho....and i even disagree with this aspect when it shows up in some what similar, and somewhat different ways in other other religions....
not the easiest to explain, but here goes.......
first musically & vocally & some of the lyrics- Yahweh is one of the most beautful U2 songs I've ever heard [and one of my favs on this album]
I believe it
is healthy to have a certain amount of ego, unlike tmost of the Eastern Reilgions that [and maybe some forms of Chrstianity] say the ego is to totally be oblitherated/or transcendent.
But i think a person's inner self/ and inner 'should' be 'pourous' to a dregree alllowing other's essenses to 'touch' with yours so to speak...so you can help better to empathize with peole and learn from them.
it's realated to the Deep Engeries of Light within us all [tho in some people/ and at sometimes those engeries are 'eclipsed' to various degrees. ANd some 'grey' energies maynot be so terrible after all.... ANd 'dark' engeries try to learn from them, work through them, see what can be changed towards Light Engeries from them.
But I don't think, since Bono is doing great work NOW, in the areas he has chosen to do so in, and hopefully do even more good works as he continues through this life. But I don't think his heart 'needs' to be 'broken' any morew than it already has been, by the early difficulties in his life,then conditions he's experienced firsthand- unlike most people.
Even for those of us trying to keep up with these issues and do postitve things in this world.... our hearts don't need to be broken anymore .....we just need to stay in touch with what we know, keep learning and do what we can. Whether that's alot at some points , or a little, or sometimes nothing at times...
"and you give & you give & you give yourself away..." Well sometimes if you Do that TOO much [not just speaking about Bono here] you can kill [NOT in suicide-sense] yourself at worse, or become very ill.
Sometimes Matyr-dom is
rather over-rated I think.
It's important to try and stay more balanced than not over all, over time. Of course they'll be times when you are not balanced. But they should be for your own health less than more.
You cant often be much good, if you are so burned out/ill to yourself, ANd THEN certainly not much good to others for any longer term efforts. ANd Bono certainly sounds from some of his latest interviews that he wanted to be around for the Long Haul- Musically and for his work on Extreme Poverty/ Aids/ Africa Etc.
And Women in general have always gotten most of the brunt of this type of thinking. But an open-hearted man like Bono has it, too.
For myself I really would have preferred to have the last word be"...take my heart and make it wake..."
{there are real metaphysical reasons why it's not good to constancely evoke words like break [there are others] in refering emotional/metaphorical aspects of the heart esp but other body parts etc. Not to go into them here just pointing in out]
WHY that choice? well first of all I would have preferred awake but it doens't fit lyrically in the tempo/line...
but to me it means keeping your Heart Awake to others peoples conditions, bad circumstances etc and trying to do something about it to help change it/ or helping them to help themselves change things. Whether as a single individual persaon or in gropus or a mix in good works.