Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darkness of others

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darkness of others.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word ‘happy’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

I am a firm believer that a man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them. As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to a deeper understanding of ourselves.

The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.

Everybody has a little bit of the sun and moon in them. Everybody has a little bit of man, woman, and animal in them. Darks and lights in them. Everyone is part of a connected cosmic system. Part earth and sea, wind and fire, with some salt and dust swimming in them. We have a universe within ourselves that mimics the universe outside. None of us are just black or white, or never wrong and always right. No one. No one exists without polarities. Everybody has good and bad forces working with them, against them, and within them.

We are not what happened to us, we are what we choose to become.

The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.

Along my journey I have discovered that it is the un-becoming of my past, which has led me to re-discover my true self.

‘Maybe the journey isn’t so much about becoming anything. Maybe it’s about un-becoming everything that isn’t really you, so you can be who you were meant to be in the first place.’ - Paul Coelho

We cannot change anything unless we accept it.

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

I have also learnt that ‘people will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls.’

And it may be true that the most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely, but there's no coming to consciousness without pain. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.

Whatever is rejected from the self, appears in the world as an event.

My own journey has led to me ask,

How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow?

I have discovered that, I must have a dark side also If I am to be whole.

The immutable laws of the universe - no matter how complicated they may seem - collectively speaking, are the interaction and the relationship between the two polar energies, Yin and Yang.