Seeing In The Dark: Staying Present With Difficult Emotions

When we run from the darkness, we don't allow ourselves time for our vision to adjust. When we stay present in the darkness, whatever the darkness might be, gradually our psychic vision adjusts, and new light is allowed to enter. We begin to see through the dark into a new kind of light.

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Succinctly beautiful metaphor for shadow work. Thank you! I don’t love the music choice in this one but the spoken word overpowers so the music isn’t relevant.

Deepest gratitude to you..for the calm within the storm..the light within the dark. Letting eyes adjust to the dark ..accepting.
Not rushing to turn on the light ..knowing ,this will pass ..and the light that comes will be so beautiful 🙏💓

This imagining, giving inner experience the body, this embodiment of sadness, grief, which is here for me and overtaking me, the growing darkness that is actually here as you have just said to be a demonstration of my natures capacity to adapt. I stay with the darkness and witness through experience the wisdom of the eyes of my heart my adapt to darkness.
It is better to stay with the immense loneliness which now belongs to me It is safe to allow grief and sadness to overtake me because it is and will be a part of me that my heart adapts or adopts to because God Speaks through and through your words, and makes this experience welcome 🙏

Beautiful.

I found the same message I was to afraid of posting about on the Tao Te Ching today. Right here when I looked you up to see if you had other meditations.
Don’t surrender the loneliness to soon🤍🤍🤍
Thank you ..Namaste

Thank you 🙏

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Thank you, Charles, for your guidance and support throughout 2024. I know that I can always turn to you - and frequently do so - when I am needing/wanting 'something' and don't know what that is. Or what I need to do or NOT to do to feel better in myself. I always sense that you have walked the way before you describe it to us. That is, your counsel is subjective understanding, gained from the 'slings and arrows if outrageous fortune' encountered on your own journey. I never feel preached at, but included. And maybe in 2025 I will finally finish your Tao course ☺️
Sending warmest love 🙏🏻💞

Huh. I just picked up The Darkness Manifesto (Johan Eklof). I'll revisit this meditation a few times and let it sink in.

Beautiful

Beautiful poem! Thank you!

I loved this. Thank you.

Beautiful message🦋

Beautiful. Thank you.🙏

This gives me courage 🙏🏼✨💖

Well explained

Wow! What an incredible analogy for gettting through challenging times and especially feeling lonely. Thank you Charles!

So needed this 💕Short and Perfect 🙏🥰Many thanks ❤️

Very deep and impactful for such a short meditation!

Without darkness no light.
It's like the sun and the moon, they each have their time to shine bright.
🙏✨️💖🌻