Shadow and Light Source Both
How does a part of the world leave the world?
How does wetness leave water?
Dont' try to put out fire by throwing on
more fire! Don't wash a wound with blood.
No matter how fast you run, your shadow
keeps up. Sometimes it's in front!
Only full overhead sun diminishes your shadow.
But that shadow has been serving you.
What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is
your candle. Your boundaries are your quest.
I could explain this, but it will break the
glass cover on your heart, and there's no
fixing that.
You must have shadow and light source both.
Listen, and lay your head under the tree of awe.
When from that tree feathers and wings sprout on you,
be quieter than a dove. Don't even open your mouth for
even a coo.
Shadow and Light Source Both By Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi
Invitation: “No matter how fast you run ...”
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"You must have shadow and light source both.
Listen, and lay your head under the tree of awe." offers Rumi.
I am grateful for Courage work that invites the recognition of shadow and its value in my life, in our lives. Instead of denying shadow, or considering it a wholesale negative, or a flaw in our character and lives, Rumi invites us to consider it a necessary companion to light. This realization allows me to consider his second invitation -- to lay my head under the tree of awe and listen.
Yes, welcome this, that.
Silence and music, and thunder.
Yes, light. Yes, shadows.