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An asphyxiation of Spirit
by Lily
“I saw how much human life hurts people. It was not a normal intellectual understanding like, say, commiserating with the misfortunes of others. It was a very deep inner knowing that elicited a lot of natural compassion. I saw how life is so scary for people, and I perceived the sheer amount of pain they have to cover up day by day just to make it through. It’s the resistance that hurts them the most. Fear forces them to stiffen, and in the stiffening, they take a lot of scary blows.
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What was so embarrassing was that every emotion belonged to me. I couldn’t distance or repress any of them. And even though there would be a contradictory positive feeling in me somewhere, the negative one was so forceful and real. And worst of all, I saw that it was true. That’s not to say that our shadow-self is all our fault, for much of it is formed in the innocence of childhood.
To close the gap and make yourself spiritually whole, you have to own your shadow and embrace it, realizing that the negative force is inside you as a part of the positive force. Once you own the negative as part of the real you, you have understood something that most miss. To own it, you have to look at it, and you have to be willing to fix it. There is a positive side to the shadow that often expresses itself as creativity. That’s why so many creative geniuses have had such troubled lives. Both parts of their shadow are sharing the driving. First the creative impulse, then the destructive one, back and forth.”
http://www.whispy.com/blog/an-asphyxiation-of-spirit/Stuart Wilde
Sixth Sense
Stephanie Doty
Weary of Wonderland
August 8, 2014
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