The more light expands the deeper it enters the dark.

The more light expands the deeper it enters the dark.

In this same way, to deny the dark is to fuel it.

That is not to say that entering the dark should equate to getting lost in it or feeding it.

It is instead to say that moving the light into it is part of a necessary vehicle for transformation, growth and learning.

You see, the dark is not the enemy. Without its contrast there is no understanding.

Just as the depth of the soil is essential to the seed, to deny its necessity is to deny its very existence.

And so it is not the light in itself that seeks to oppose the dark, but the light that seeks it out, both in service to its contrast and its illumination.

No one ever truly returns from the dark without something sacred.

This is not to romanticise it, nor to suggest that what is gained is always perceivable to all who encounter it, but to acknowledge what becomes available from within it.

In the same way that through loss, something greater can be gained.
And if you allow yourself to receive it, you will hold something that can never be taken.

In physical loss of any degree arises the opportunity to meet greater octaves of love, the quiet knowing that love is never truly lost, only changed in form.
Not physical separation or even death can take it, nor does it seek to.

In this way we come to see the expression of grief is simply the measure of love.

From this lens, darkness becomes one of our greatest teachers and invitations in the depths of the unimaginable to ask, what is here for me? and humbly reorient in accordance.

If, in the finding, the world feels dark… carry the light toward it, in spite of what draws you away from it.

Many sages and mystics have written about this elusive way of being.
And beyond poetic mysticism lies a depth far beyond comprehension.

A place deep within where the light burns brightly in spite of that which opposes it.

A depth the mind cannot grasp, yet the heart instinctively remembers.

And I intend to spend the remainder of this life exploring it.

~ Jen

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