Filed under: Spirituality & Religion | Tags: Assimilation, Dark, Light, Shadow
Light and Dark. Both are alike just as they are different. The light that is embraced by so many, clutching at the hem of mothers or their religious beliefs, is so often seen as the purging flame, the bastion of all that is good. In contrast, the dark is seen as the succouring blanket of all that is evil, the realm that many fear to tred.
In truth, the light is as burning flame. It consumes everything in its harsh, unending, judgement. It offers no salvation or warmth. It is cold and pallid in its blinding brightness. One cannot think or reach conclusions. The answers are obscured. One may find no rest where light burns eternally bright.
The dark offers rest and recuperation. It offers contemplation. It does not judge in that it allows you a depth that you might contain your secrets, for good or bad. There is nothing to fear except that in which you bring yourself and therein lies the true danger. It is not the dark itself but that which we carry within. Here, one might look into the self and understand.
Without doubt, we need both light and dark. Too many seek to live within the extremes of either. It is the balance between both that we must find. The shadows that stretch between both light and dark. The understanding, the assimilation, of both aspects within the whole. The centre point. The nexus. We need light to find the answers held within the dark of our subconscious.
Where darkness prevails, the answers remain hidden to us just as where light is eternal we remain blind to ourselves. It is the shadow of ourselves, the border between the two extremes, where the burring of ourselves draw everything together as one. Only then might we truly know ourselves.
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