The sun cannot help calling forth shadows wherever it is shining.
Your spiritual essence is of the same nature as the celestial sun is even though at present it is clothed and hidden in a dense material body. Still, its inborn light is shining forth undeterred and in so doing it is inevitably casting shadows.
The shadows in this context are the "dark" side of personal existence on earth, which are mainly showing themselves in your Ego.
If you are afraid of them you tend to either hide away from your personal shadows, chase them or even try fighting them. All of these tactics are blinding your view to your reality of light because whatever you focus on determines your view of reality. However, once you are consciously realizing that your are caught up in the game of shadow-chasing and fighting, you are given the choice to stop it and to start moving the other way instead. There are two methods of achieving realisation of the/your Light.
The one lies in studying the shadows you are currently seeing to the end of detecting the object/source that is responsible for them. This is like finding the fitting photographic positive to a known negative. In this instance you are teaching yourself to see the bright side of things that you are instinctively perceiving as being dark.
The other is not to bother about the forms and personal level at all but rather to use them as stepping stones in your endeavour to aspire to the source of light. Whenever you are catching yourself struggling with shadows you immediately change your inner attitude into one of devoted prayer and surrender to the Highest Source of Wisdom in supplication to be made to see and understand the real.
Shadows are like a host of hostile guards that have taken prisoner your real self, your Light. If you wish to free the latter you have to make friends with the former in some way. This act will make you realize that although they may seem threatening and insurmountable from afar and in your imagination, they are really quite harmless once you are getting close to them.
Your spiritual essence is of the same nature as the celestial sun is even though at present it is clothed and hidden in a dense material body. Still, its inborn light is shining forth undeterred and in so doing it is inevitably casting shadows.
The shadows in this context are the "dark" side of personal existence on earth, which are mainly showing themselves in your Ego.
If you are afraid of them you tend to either hide away from your personal shadows, chase them or even try fighting them. All of these tactics are blinding your view to your reality of light because whatever you focus on determines your view of reality. However, once you are consciously realizing that your are caught up in the game of shadow-chasing and fighting, you are given the choice to stop it and to start moving the other way instead. There are two methods of achieving realisation of the/your Light.
The one lies in studying the shadows you are currently seeing to the end of detecting the object/source that is responsible for them. This is like finding the fitting photographic positive to a known negative. In this instance you are teaching yourself to see the bright side of things that you are instinctively perceiving as being dark.
The other is not to bother about the forms and personal level at all but rather to use them as stepping stones in your endeavour to aspire to the source of light. Whenever you are catching yourself struggling with shadows you immediately change your inner attitude into one of devoted prayer and surrender to the Highest Source of Wisdom in supplication to be made to see and understand the real.
Shadows are like a host of hostile guards that have taken prisoner your real self, your Light. If you wish to free the latter you have to make friends with the former in some way. This act will make you realize that although they may seem threatening and insurmountable from afar and in your imagination, they are really quite harmless once you are getting close to them.
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