You Must Go Into The Dark In

The Evolution Of One's Own Soul Is A Process. It's Not A Quick Fix. It's Not A Five-day Workshop. It's A Lifetime Process Where We Let Go, Discover And Then Allow For Futures To Come Into Existence.

In Trying To Express Only Those Aspects Of Ourselves That We Believe Will Guarantee Us The Acceptance Of Others, We Suppress Some Of Our Most Valuable And Interesting Features And Sentence Ourselves To A Life Of Reenacting The Same Outworn Scripts. Reclaiming The Parts Of Ourselves That We Have Relegated To The Shadow Is The Most Reliable Path To Actualizing All Of Our Human Potential. Once Befriended, Our Shadow Becomes A Divine Map That—when Properly Read And Followed—reconnects Us To The Life We Were Meant To Live And The People We Were Meant To Be.

Fear Keeps Us Rooted In The Past. Fear Of The Unknown, Fear Of Abandonment, Fear Of Rejection, Fear Of Not Having Enough, Fear Of Not Being Enough, Fear Of The Future-all These Fears And More Keep Us Trapped, Repeating The Same Old Patterns And Making The Same Choices Over And Over Again. Fear Prevents Us From Moving Outside The Comfort-or Even The Familiar Discomfort-of What We Know. It's Nearly Impossible To Achieve Our Highest Vision For Our Lives As Long As We Are Being Guided By Our Fears.

You Must Have The Guts To Throw Off The Chains Of Modesty And Mediocrity In Order To Be The Light That The World Needs.

Live In The Knowledge That You Are A Gift To The World.