"You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star." - Nietzsche
Take a moment, a single moment to return back to an incredibly hard moment in your life. Can you see a little light up in the corner?
There it was, joy. But how could joy exist in this? How could there be the presence of joy in this horrible moment? I didn't really understand, in fact all those years I thought it was resilience that kept me afloat. Sure, there definitely was the presence of resilience and not giving up in hard times, but even more was this presence of joy that could illuminate even the darkest of times.
I remember going back to some of these horrible moments and feeling everything that was there at that time. The cold room. The darkness of the space. The feeling that I was sinking into a never-ending darkness that would consume me forever. There was no way I could have possibly felt any worse.
And yet, there was light always there. The only thing about it was that I wasn't looking for it.
It is not going to be simple for me to return to this place. There are numerous things that I have buried deep so nobody could ever find them. Thing is, I knew they were there. They've been there the entire time. I have been so scared to let them bubble up that I've actually run from my past straight into the future and have completely forgotten about the present. That's no way to live life. That is not how my life will be lived from this time on.
There's only one fundamental difference between avoiding your fears and heading straight into them - the amount of light you bring. When you walk straight into the things that scare you, you illuminate everything around you and you find out that what you were scared of all along really isn't all that bad.
So we have to dive into the depths to discover who we truly are.
Lantern in hand.
Take a moment, a single moment to return back to an incredibly hard moment in your life. Can you see a little light up in the corner?
There it was, joy. But how could joy exist in this? How could there be the presence of joy in this horrible moment? I didn't really understand, in fact all those years I thought it was resilience that kept me afloat. Sure, there definitely was the presence of resilience and not giving up in hard times, but even more was this presence of joy that could illuminate even the darkest of times.
I remember going back to some of these horrible moments and feeling everything that was there at that time. The cold room. The darkness of the space. The feeling that I was sinking into a never-ending darkness that would consume me forever. There was no way I could have possibly felt any worse.
And yet, there was light always there. The only thing about it was that I wasn't looking for it.
It is not going to be simple for me to return to this place. There are numerous things that I have buried deep so nobody could ever find them. Thing is, I knew they were there. They've been there the entire time. I have been so scared to let them bubble up that I've actually run from my past straight into the future and have completely forgotten about the present. That's no way to live life. That is not how my life will be lived from this time on.
There's only one fundamental difference between avoiding your fears and heading straight into them - the amount of light you bring. When you walk straight into the things that scare you, you illuminate everything around you and you find out that what you were scared of all along really isn't all that bad.
So we have to dive into the depths to discover who we truly are.
Lantern in hand.
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