Light and Darkness

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For me, the first thing that comes to mind thinking about light and darkness is the cycle of day and night ~ and all that this cycle implies like sun and moon, waking and sleeping, activity and rest... In a sense they are also polarities. And one could argue that we would not be able to recognize one without another. Not knowing what is day, unless we could experience night.

The same would be true for light and darkness. Not knowing darkness we probably would fail to truly appreciate light ~ and vice versa.
It is this concept that is depicted in the yin/yang figure, the two teardrop forms within a circle; one white with a black dot in its center, the other black with a white dot in the center.

Light and darkness are polarities. Being polarities ~ one needs the other to create balance. Or maybe even to recognize each other...

There are many things in life that work this way ~ where we need to experience, or at least observe its polarity in order to become aware of what it is all about. To not take it for granted. To truly appreciate it.

It is also through polarities that we learn our life lessons...

If we come into this world with a desire to learn all there is to learn about self assurance, self esteem and self worth ~ chances are that we wouldn’t learn anything about these things if we just grew up to be self assured, worthy people who hold themselves in high esteem... We tend to learn far more about them if we have to struggle with these things, if we are uncertain, unsure of ourselves, unaware of how worthy we really are. Then, when we finally gain that awareness, when we empower ourselves and become the self assured people we were meant to be all along ~ not only do we learn about self assurance, self esteem and self worth; having come from there polarities, from a dark place in a sense,  we have learned infinitely more than that! We have learned to see the light!

As we are striving for enlightenment ~ walking our individual, spiritual paths away from the darkness in whichever shape or form that comes in each of our personal lives ~ we may begin to realize that independent from the shade of light we are living in, we have the ability to let more light in. To let the Light flow into ourselves. And to let that Light from our source radiate from us...

When we do this we can become that pinpoint of light in the life of someone who is going through a dark patch in his or her life ~ providing them with an image of the polarity of that darkness.
Perhaps even become a beacon showing the path toward the Light...
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