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Do Not Fear Your Darkness — light Versus Dark Is an Illusion.
- One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.” — Carl Jung
from Carl Jung: How to Embrace Your Dark Side
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“There is a fear of the night that is begotten of ignorance and superstition, a nightmare fear, the fear of the impossible; and there is another fear of the night—of the starlit night—that comes with knowledge, when we see in its true proportion this little life of ours...”
from The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination, and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos by Jaime Green
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- Dark nights of the soul happen when something within us needs to die. It’s a truth that we may resist acknowledging, but it’s still the truth.
from There Can Be No Rebirth Without A Dark Night of The Soul by Patrícia Williams
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- The unwanted and the shadow imagination are real and necessary parts of our inner landscape. They’re wisdom, dipped in discomfort. When teaching mindfulness, I’ve noticed people either move away from their unwanteds or get sucked into them. Those who move away have conditioned themselves to avoid what they don’t want to hear, see, feel, or think. T... See more
from IFTF - How to Embrace Shadow Futures with Mindfulness by Mary Martin
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The acceptance of suffering is a journey into death. Facing deep pain, allowing it to be, taking your attention into it, is to enter death consciously. When you have died this death, you realize that there is no death — and there is nothing to fear. Only the ego dies. Imagine a ray of sunlight that has forgotten it is an inseparable part of the sun
... See morefrom The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment by Eckhart Tolle
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- The dark night of the soul is defined as a deep existential crisis where all our beliefs about ourselves, the Universe, and our place within it are called into question.
It’s a period marked by profound inner conflict, where the very foundations of our identity and purpose are shaken to their core. More importantly, it’s a period where we’re in a li... See morefrom There Can Be No Rebirth Without A Dark Night of The Soul by Patrícia Williams
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- If you find yourself in the midst of your dark night of the soul, remember this: it’s more than just a journey of destruction; it’s a journey of creation. But creation often involves destruction — the shedding of old layers to make way for the new, the release of what no longer serves us to invite in what truly nourishes our souls.
from There Can Be No Rebirth Without A Dark Night of The Soul by Patrícia Williams
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