Roots

Roots go deep down into the earth into the moist Darkness. It is in being rooted in the darkness that we can sustain and thrive in the light. Do not avoid the darkness sink your roots into it that the light might carry you further and more safely. There is much work to do in the dark.

If it so happens that you are already in the dark, then all the more reason to see what can be valued while you are there. The human experience is the WHOLE SHEBANG. And we’ve all heard “if you’re going through hell keep going. Churchill” … it will come to an end.

And it’s been said this way: *** “Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.” – Rainer Maria Rilke

And Rumi celebrated the good, the bad and the ugly:

Guest House

This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.

A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.

Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture,
still, treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out
for some new delight.

The dark thought, the shame, the malice,
meet them at the door laughing,
and invite them in.

Be grateful for whoever comes,
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond.
~ Rumi ~

More related:

• lightworker? let’s be clear, the real work, is shadow work
• Narcissist: the evil other
• Trilogy of the shadow child (parts)
• Shadow
• Embracing darkness and shadow that we might also be light and joy

AND

• Kundalini Rooting

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