One Apple A Day #455 - hold your light for others
We all have lights and shadows. I always found almost impossible to use my own light to explore my dark side. It is as if our light is cast outwards so we can't use it to illuminate our inner shadows. Or maybe it is just fear.
But when I'm in a circle of trust with a group of people, something magical happens. The lights of others shred through my shadows, and I can look without fear in the darkest corners of my soul.
I had this experience one year ago, during a walk with a group of man on the Italian hills. We had a long and tough day. I, in particular, had an emotional breakthrough midway and I was facing my own demons. I had opened a door I'd always feared, and there I was, staring before the darkness behind that door. But that evening, while we were all together standing in a circle to close the day with gratitude, I felt the intensity of their light, and my own darkness became less scary.
"We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own." —Ben Sweetland