When I first thought about this mystic saying I squinted my critical eye and recoiled in some kind of pre-historic grunt of utter disgust. "How?" I thought to myself. "Can anyone say such a thing!?" What hurts you is bad! devastating... crushing... destructive... and all those things we think about with great disdain. Nothing "good" can ever rise from the ashes of hurt and loss - can it? The questions we raise drown out the beauty which is present in the words themselves...
"Darkness is your candle!" The world is a dark place. Full of pain and saddness. Destructive powers are all around us. We shiver in the thought of something bad happening to us or worse - happenning to someone we love. And yet when we stop and let go and follow the quiet way - the way of silence, we enter the darkness in our mind. That spot that says, "Stop what you are doing! Stop and listen to your heart beating." The world within a world begins to awaken and come alive. The night turns... into day. The scary world of what ifs fades away and we are brought face to face with the truth. The assurance that we seek is there in the darkness. If we take the time to let go and realize that the "darkness is our candle" we will emerge from the darkness with a new vision full of light. That light which comes from knowing our fears and letting our fears go...
To trust the outcome - come what may - to make the best of any situation is to know the light of love... And it is then that we learn to forgive. We learn to accept. And we learn that in the silence of darkness we find ourselves again.
"Darkness is your candle..." Let it shine! Let it shine! Let it shine!
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