Defeat the darkness - Be the Light

 

 

 

When you think about it, darkness has no real power. All the darkness in the universe can’t put out the littlest flame. The darkest darkness can’t travel through a window. The deepest darkness can’t be reflected in a mirror.

 

Darkness only has power when we believe that there are monsters lurking it. Then we grow afraid, angry and desperate. We build entire mythologies around them. But they were never really there at all. Because the moment we light a flame, they are instantly dispelled.

 

Another way to put that is:

 

The smallest ember is more powerful than all the darkness in the universe. It alone can drive the darkness out. Reflected, even the smallest flame can burn away all the darkness that ever was. But the greatest darkness cannot even touch the smallest flame with the slightest caress.

 

The same is true in you, is it not?

 

The darkness in you is powerful only when you believe there are monsters lurking in it. Rejection, inferiority, dishonor, loss, failure. We imagine these things and more constantly. Then there is anger, vengeance, grief. Whatever the monsters are, there they dwell, in the darkness.

 

But they are not really real. They are just anticipations, expectations, projections. So they are illusions, are they not?

 

You may imagine these illusions are powerful. But they will only take away your power. You will be chasing phantoms, will you not? What power is there in that? When we are directed by anger, fear, envy, spite, that is what we are doing. Our lives feel futile because they are.

 

 

How do we drive them out instead? Even the smallest spark will do.

 

The smallest spark of compassion for your adversaries, empathy for those who differ from you, forgiveness for those who have hurt you. Beginning with you. The littlest flame of rebellion, creativity, gratitude, imagination, appreciation, truth. In every small intention and action.

 

The moment these come into being you, and all around you, see the monsters as they truly are. Not as evil creatures with the terrible power to make you suffer. But just feeble, frightened people, trapped in the darkness, imagining monsters, just like you.

 

We are all each other’s monsters, are we not? What does that tell us? We are all in the same cave. It is dark. We imagine others as monsters. But when we light a spark, then we see they are just like us. Afraid because they are imagining monsters. But now you see the monsters are just each one suffering, powerless beings. Who have taken away their own power by imagining monsters in the darkness.

 

Don’t take away your power. You do that when you imagine monsters. But you have the greatest power in all creation. The power to light a spark. Any tiny light defeats the greatest darkness, remember?

 

There is nothing more powerful that ever will be than the many names of love. It is the most powerful thing that can be. Because it brings all suffering things together in the light, and teaches them the impossible beauty of life.

 

 

Seek the darkness. Be the spark. That is where your power lies. Darkness is the littlest thing in all creation. You are the mightiest. You just don’t know it yet.

 

 

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Seeing with your heart {Look inside. Not outside }

There you are. Here I am.

Can we ever really know one another? There is a gap greater than worlds between us. My experience is mine, and yours is yours. How can we bridge it, limited things that we are? I can’t step into your mind.

So we try with the only crude tools we have.

You tell me who you are. I tell you who I am. I try to listen. But what can I really hear? I hear what I think, my inner voice, before I hear you. You hear yourself thinking before you speak to me. Now there is conflict, dissonance, noise, all these voices competing to be heard. The distance between us is greater this way, not less.

You watch me. I watch you. I try to see you, you try to see me. But I am really just watching the idea of you. You are watching the idea of me. Now there is imperfection, need, desire. Are you what I want? Do you live up to my ideal? Are you part of my tribe? We are seeing through the broken mirror of mind. The distance between us this way is the greatest of all.

I close my eyes. You close your eyes.

I let all this thinking, talking, watching go. I go deep inside me, to see you. Until I reach perfect stillness.

I watch myself. Watch myself thinking, knowing, needing. I watch myself suffering, clinging, trying to hold onto the wave mind calls a self.

Now I really see what is.

The ocean in me. It is the same ocean in you. Just like me, you are thinking, needing, clinging, holding onto your wave. Just like me, you have suffered, fought, held, surrendered, wondered, imagined, created, loved. That is what a wave does.

Now I see you.

I saw you not by opening my eyes. That closed my heart. I saw you by closing my eyes. So I could see with my heart.

Now when you tell me your story, I see the wave in you, travelling across the same ocean as me. How it grew, struggled, travelled. Just like mine did. Now I see you with love, compassion, real understanding, true wisdom. I see you now, because I have seen that the ocean in is the ocean in me.

We look, but we don’t see. You are a wave, I am a wave. Each wave is different. But the story of the wave is the same. Each returns to and is born from the same ocean. Each life is all life in this great way.

I must look through me to really see you. Not at you. That way, there is no seeing at all.

The ocean in you is the ocean in me. If you really want to see people, look inside, not outside. Until you reach it, find it, see it. And you will see everyone you meet for the first time, every time.



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