Dark
I got one of those long, tedious emails last night that I generally never read. They usually contain a long joke, a long dissertation, or the “pass this along or you will have bad luck” message. This is one my nephew passed along, so I read it. It was poorly written and could have come to the point about 5 minutes sooner but I waded through it.
One of the things in the story was that there really is no such thing as dark. It went on to explain that dark is the absence of light. Reminds me of a story . . .
I was taking a photography class many years ago and part of the class was developing our own film. You were encouraged to create a dark room in your home. I chose the laundry room in the basement. I sealed all the light from the door with masking tape and had a suitable dark room for developing. The next day, I did my radio talk show and told people about my make-shift darkroom. I then asked them, tongue and cheek, to send me all their burned out light bulbs for my darkroom. The next day, I had about 6 packages of burned out light bulbs from 6 different people. The scary part is, after reading their letters, many of them didn’t know I was kidding.
I was reading Chapter 2 of Eckhart Tolle‘s book A NEW EARTH and came across this:
“Whenever tragic loss occurs, you either resist or you yield.”
That prompted the following equations:
Yielding = acceptance = openness = light
Resisting = rejection = closed off = dark
Yielding is accepting and cooperating with reality and becoming open to the light of possibilities. Anything less than that causes suffering to continue.
Resisting has you defy and fight with reality which always has sad consequences.
When you resist, you are rejecting the inescapable truth that’s staring you in the face. Call it denial. You start to build a dense wall around yourself and close yourself off until there is only darkness.
But darkness doesn’t exist. It’s the absence of light.
Light is like water – it can find the smallest crack. Sometimes when we shroud ourselves in darkness, it only takes a glint of light to illuminate the way out.
We create our own darkness when we seal out the light of truth. The mirror has no agenda and it never lies. Take a good look today and find out which equation you are using and notice the results you’re getting.
Resist or Yield? We have that choice every time we bump into life’s dilemmas.
Now that you have this awareness, I wonder, are you going to let the light in or remain a victim of darkness?
All the best,
John
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