The degree you are intimate with the unwanted within, is the degree that you are able to be intimate with another.
If you have not provided shelter for the darkness inside you, how will you ever hold the darkness of the Beloved? Now is the time, to remember that which really matters. Do not threat over the shimmering future Or regret the ashes from the past. They are distractions from the task at hand. To love more deeply, to hold fiercely to this present moment. Is our greatest gift. This life is like a flash of lightning, a dewdrop on a blade of grass. Soon gone, as the wind rushes through the trees. Don’t waste time hating and debating, stand strong in your giving, for the heart has no edge no boundary or end. Let it be a garden, for every flower, to bloom in all its wild flavour. Let the whole world grow inside you, even as others, curl in despair. Ignorance, is not a plant worth growing compassion is its cure. Understand any hatred, it only comes, from a fear of being loved. In the end, love is your only companion, share that with all that you meet Opinions are just like flickers of light, they pass by, they are like clouds in the wide open sky Watch the curling, inside you, don’t let it burn down the whole village In this moment there is always an opening for in the end we have no idea of the next step Watch how the storm makes way for the sunshine how the forest fire gives birth to new life Without darkness there is no light without chaos no order Everything has its time in the end only love remains.
(Author Unknown) Illustration by: Jane Ray-
