dark night

But if we really want the light, we cannot afford to flee the heat. As Victor Frankl said, “What gives light must endure burning.”

The need to fear ‘the dark’ is a human illusion.

That said, to know you are choosing/creating your own reality is not necessarily to know why you are choosing it.

In fact, the Buddha had begun the process of growing down early in his life, when he left his protected palace gardens to enter the street. There the sick, the dead, the poor, and the old drew his soul down into the question of how to live life in the world.

Transformation isn't a butterfly. It's the thing before you get to be a pretty bug flying away. It's huddling in the dark cocoon and then pushing your way out. It's the messy work of making sense of your fortunes and misfortunes, desires and doubts, hang-ups and sorrows, actions and accidents, mistakes and successes, so you can go on and become th