What a world
Eventually, my love, you'll get to a point where you no longer fear the darkness coming. You'll pull out a chair for it and welcome it like an old friend. You'll sit with it, intrigued to listen to all it has to tell you, then wish it well as it goes on its way. Because the secret is, once you learn how to hold the darkness, the darkness can no
... See moreStaying with the darkness allows something to happen that escapes us if we are hasty. If we resist our natural tendency to take flight before painful experiences, we can descend into the dark aspects of the unconscious, which is necessary if we are to make contact with what Goethe calls "infinite nature"' Turning toward such darkness requires a
... See moreDr. Stanton Marlan • The Black Sun: The Alchemy and Art of Darkness (Carolyn and Ernest Fay Series in Analytical Psychology Book 10)
To my mind, one of the great necessary inner disciplines is the ability to stay close to what is still hidden and unannounced in us, the interior ‘deep but dazzling darkness’ out of which any new and worthwhile future will be announced.
David Whyte • David Whyte
You Darkness
Rainer Maria Rilke translated by David Whyte
You darkness from which I come,
I love you more than all the fires
that fence out the world,
for the fire makes a circle
for everyone
so that no one sees you anymore.
But darkness holds it all:
the shape and the flame,
the animal and myself,
how it holds them,
all powers, all sight —
and it is possible:
... See moreIn my work with LUX, I've experienced: The crystal-clear light of one's own essence doesn't shy away from darkness. On the contrary – it transforms shadows through complete acceptance into wisdom.