ugliness is created.
When people see things as good,
evil is created.
Being and non-being produce each other.
Difficult and easy complement each other.
Long and short define each other.
High and low oppose each other.
Fore and aft follow each other.
-Yin Yang from the Tao Te Ching
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The universe, reality, God... Consciousness. We are it’s breath, it’s manifestation, it’s dream. Our hearts may not always beat in sync when we chose to see at life at a micro level, to see life as day-to-day rather than the big picture, but we are specks of stardust in a grand multiverse. We are one. Every one of you is me and I, you. We are all God in drag. One consciousness who happens to wear all these different skins and masks.
Our physical world, this living breathing entity that we think is outside of us, is doing some shadow work. It is looking into it’s darkest corners in order to grow it’s love and light.
We humans feel like we don’t get to consciously choose when that shadow work begins and it is for this reason that it creates such suffering. But if we knew we had to touch the flame in order to understand what being burned feels like, would we do it? How many of us would purposely chose to get punched in the face in order to break the fear of physical injury? We actively avoid pain at all costs; that’s our biological programming. Yet growth is always prefaced with some kind of suffering.
We tear muscles to build new ones. We fall so that we may rise. We touch the flame as children and learn to respect fire.
We will embrace our fellow people. We will come at our brothers and sisters with love. Those we disagree with about the nature of reality and society are simply us having been raised in different circumstances. Do not give in to fear and anger. Let us not further divide ourselves from each other. Really think about what “love thy neighbor” actually means.
It is always darkest before the dawn. I am very much looking forward to watching the sunrise with you.
All of you.
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