{"id":6138,"date":"2013-12-27T07:00:43","date_gmt":"2013-12-27T14:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manyvoices.soundstrue.com\/manyvoices\/?p=1864"},"modified":"2020-04-07T19:31:57","modified_gmt":"2020-04-07T19:31:57","slug":"light-alive-within-darkness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources2.soundstrue.com\/blog\/light-alive-within-darkness\/","title":{"rendered":"There is a light alive within the darkness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Will you hold another who has been touched by the darkness within? Will you love them enough to allow them to fall apart in your arms? To unravel, to become unglued, and to feel unbearably lost as the wisdom of their process unfolds? Will you be the space in which they can finally meet the feelings and emotions that have been kept at bay for a lifetime?<\/p>\n<p>To love another in this way you must touch everything that is unresolved within you \u2013 all of your own unmet sadness, abandoned shame, discarded grief, and deserted aloneness. You are willing to no longer stay safe on the sidelines. You are willing to get messy. Even gooey and drippy.<\/p>\n<p>Will you set aside your need for the other to change, to be different, to be \u201ccured,\u201d to be transformed, and to be healed? Will you resist the temptation to talk them out of their embodied experience, to tell them everything will be okay, and to dishonor the creativity hidden inside the unwanted? Will you allow your heart to break with them, and endure the urge inside you to put it all back together again? Will you fall into the unknown with them, holding them close, and provide a home for their brokenness?<\/p>\n<p>To care about others, yourself, and the world in this way you must stay radically embodied. You are no longer interested in transcending suffering, confusion, and neurosis, for you see these as thundering expressions of the path itself. Please don\u2019t turn away. 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