We have created the norms and limitations of right and wrong, good and bad, the beautiful and the ugly because of cultural, socio-economic or emotional circumstances.
Above all we have created those labels because the mind needs duality to exist.
The mind can't distinguish beauty unless it sees ugliness, it can't understand love unless it dwells on hate, it can't explain joy unless it dissects pain.
The mind asks questions, seeks reasons, constantly resting on logic.
Yet, our spirit knows that there is no separation.
There is no good and bad and beautiful and ugly and right and wrong.
And as long as we dwell in this world of duality we can never know ourselves.
How can we understand our soul if we are constantly denying an integral part of ourselves we have deemed ugly or shamefull?
How can we ever know what we want when we are constantly repressing our desire as wrong?
To embrace our "dark" side is to become whole again. To finally come back home.
The only darkness comes from our ignorance. And our ignorance is simply our desire to avoid, to be blind to what is.
But remember, if we are closing our eyes to the ugliness we fail to see the beauty as well.
Take the time to explore those dusty,dark corners of our soul, without judgement or praise. Without prejudice and embrace all of us, the masculine and the feminine, the strength and the weakness, the joy and the pain, the dark and the light.
For darkness is only the absence of light. It has no existence on its own.
All of our fears, all of our anger and axieties are simply the places where we fail to look.
Once we shine the light in the darkness, once we accept and love all of ourselves, shadows can no longer reside in our soul.
We become whole, we integrate, we unite within and with the rest of the universe.
We return to the source beyond the duality, beyond the mind where everything just is.
Pure light, pure love.
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