I had seven of the hardest and at the same time most beautiful months of my life. A pure light appeared in my path and in that wonderful brightness I was able to see my shadow, to unfold it, to face it, to embrace it. It was joy and discomfort at the same time. It uplifted me and tore me apart at the same time. It was love and hate at the same time. And both side of these contrasting feelings and emotions were simply beautiful.
I've studied the Dao and Yin Yang for so long and founding myself in the middle of this pure energy of opposites has been the most powerful experience of my life. You can study a philosophy or a concept for you entire life, but only when you experience it you can truly understand its true essence. For the first time I felt that there was no good or bad, that everything was whole, everything was needed exactly the way it was, that duality can perfectly coexist in us and in nature and make everything flow in an infinite rhythm, an infinite heartbeat.
For the first in my life I've felt truly whole.
“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”.
PART SUN AND MOON by Suzy Kassem
I always thought that to face your shadow you need to be in the dark. But everything exist because it has an opposite. And I think through their opposite things can be truly revealed. How can you face your shadow if you are in the dark? In the dark your shadow is hidden. In the dark you can probably become aware of it and get to know it , but you can't really face it. You can't embrace it or integrate it. I think it's when you are in the light , when the possibility of being truly happy and content opens to you, that your shadow becomes more evident, that your shadow asks you to confront it. It's in the light that you can incorporate it and feel your true wholeness.
