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6/25/2013 1 Comment

"There's a crack in everything, that's how the light gets through."   Leonard Cohen

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If you know me well, you know that I love scars. Especially on faces. They are so beautiful to me because they cannot be hidden. They reveal the truth.  
 
We all have something that we would rather not reveal to the world. If it's a physical affliction, we can sometimes cover it up. Our mental and emotional afflictions however, are much harder to hide. 

Buddha said, "there are three things that cannot long be hidden, the sun, the moon, and the truth." 

The part of ourselves that we don't want to reveal can become our shadow. It lurks inside of us just under the surface until something  forces it out of it's hiding. Usually, our shadow side is revealed through our relationships with others. 

Carl Jung said that "what we dislike in others is a crack in the door of who WE are." So, what you vehemently acuse another of, is often really what you deny in yourself.  We are afraid to reveal our shadow side so instead we project it onto others. 

In yoga philosophy we learn to turn our attention inward and study ourselves. This practice of svadhyaya helps us to get to know ourselves deeply and start to acknowledge that what happens outside of us can act as a mirror to what is going on inside of us. When we keep our inward focus we can learn to reveal, accept, and have compassion for our shadow side. We are only human afterall and to quote Deepak Chopra, "we are all part saint and part sinner." 

Once we see honestly that part of us that we deem as a "sinner" we can release it from where it is hidden so that it no longer has power over us.

When the light of truth and understanding shines through our "cracks", the perfection that is within us can be revealed.




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Candace
6/25/2013 05:45:45 pm

Eloquently said...... You are on to something princess goddesses :)

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