Experience

I know this from experience. When there is darkness within us, the light from the outside is blinding and reflects back into itself instead of entering the dark space. Sometimes, darkness is extremely opaque. The same thing happens in relationships. When there is selfishness in someone, goodness from another is that blinding light which returns to itself because it cannot penetrate the darkness of selfishness sponsored by an ego. This is probably why good people get more misunderstood than others, more maligned than others. And good people are vulnerable because they are good and they are compassionate … and they are caring! People feed on their goodness because they don’t have too much of their own. And this is how good people get debilitated if they are lacking in spiritual courage and unable to remain established within their own light. You can be good but conserve enough energy for yourself first. Life is a play of light and dark and each one of us needs our own light to illuminate our dark spaces. We all have these spaces until we dispel them. First, we become aware that we have them, then we create a desire to dispel them and then act to dispel them by letting the light superimpose on the darkness. I marvel that we often cannot or don’t want to identify our own darkness but are so quick to assess and speak of those spaces in others. We can continue doing this till doomsday without any visible improvement in us. All the cleansers must be used by you on you and for you. That is the mantra, and this is the reality, whether accepted or not. Surekha Kothari www.BodyMindSoulCentre.com surekhakothari.wordpress.com Speakingtree Blog: www.speakingtree.in/public/surekhakothari