dark night
by baja · updated 6d ago
dark night
by baja · updated 6d ago
baja added 6mo ago
Your spirit is excited to experience the unknown. It enjoys playing with fear and unconsciousness.
baja added 6mo ago
yes, it enjoys it even too much :)
Denial of our negativity only feeds this fear of ourselves and hence undermines self-esteem. We deny or rationalize our lower self out of fear that this is all we are. In each of us is a rock bottom fear that we are, in essence, bad or hopeless or unlovable. And we fear that seeing our despair or our badness will bring about our annihilation. This
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we inevitably will have to deal with our numbness, approaching it with as much care as we can, ceasing to numb ourselves to our numbness. If doing so seems to break our heart, we are on the right path, even if we are on our hands and knees. For when our heart breaks, it doesn’t shatter; it breaks open, expanding to include more and more.
baja added 6mo ago
Darkness is the creative force behind this world.
baja added 6mo ago
The need to fear ‘the dark’ is a human illusion.
baja added 6mo ago
baja added 5mo ago
Until the culture recognizes the legitimacy of growing down, each person in the culture struggles blindly to make sense of the darkenings and despairings that the soul requires to deepen into life.
baja added 6d ago
is one thing to process memories of trauma, but it is an entirely different matter to confront the inner void—the holes in the soul that result from not having been wanted,
baja added 6mo ago