There’s no need to fear dark times or run from your shadows; darkness is light we can’t see.
In darkness, we see more clearly.
In times of challenge, we discover the breadth and expanse of our energetic, intellectual, and physical capabilities. The will to step into our Soul’s callings and wander into our chosen destinies is born in the shadows. The dark times stretch us into our true power as we become devoted to Seeing our way through.
Light and dark in harmonious union as One
Light and dark are one and the same. Whether rising to fated calls to evolve or willingly expanding into new ways of being, we eventually have to reflect on ways lightness and darkness are interconnected in harmony:
- How would you recognize love if grief was unknown?
- How would you define success if defeat didn’t exist?
- Would accomplishment have meaning without experiences of overcoming difficulties?
Darkness enlightens.
Dark times arise from aspects of life that are hard to accept. The shadow-self nourishes memories we’re inclined to deny, hide, and ignore. We identify dark times by the heavy, stagnant, lackluster emotions that don’t feel right because we instinctively know we’re made of light.
Darkness is always a matter of the past, kept alive through habitual thinking. We know, in reality, the past is not actually happening, and we know alignment with present-focused, life-affirming potentiality requires the same effort as focusing on dispiriting memories.
When our minds and bodies tire of trying to see in the dark, the mental and emotional struggle invites us (or forces us) to challenge assumptions, release judgments, outgrow conditioning, accept what can’t be changed, and drop forecasts and projections born from narrowly-focused, fearful thinking.
The light is you.
We are enlightened beings – always, in all ways.
Whenever we’re willing to be with ourselves – silent and still – a natural enlightening of mind and body arises as the experience of peace, openness, gratitude for living, and curiosity. As dispiriting habits of thought lose power, we enlighten, like lightening illuminating the experience we exist to Be. Even in darkness, the energetic force of life we are lights the way.
As we master clear sight in darkness, we become visionary!
(this is the light we cannot see when looking without instead of within ✨)
