(05-13-2024, 04:04 PM)GeauxHomeLittleD Wrote: If you consider that the tiny spark that we call "soul" was intentionally placed inside a human body in order to experience the thing called "life" and that when "life" ends that spark returns to the collective bringing with it the knowledge and feelings of all that it experienced in order to enhance the collective then you realize that we are all here to experience all those things you have described. We must all experience light and dark, love and hate, wisdom and ignorance, compassion and apathy, pleasure and pain... the list goes on and on.
When we experience what we might consider "bad" feelings some think that we should fight against them. I'm not so sure we should do that. Maybe we should embrace them and just "be" in those times- for how can we truly know the light without having experienced the dark?
Just don't stay there. You have other experiences to master and your time is short.
Absolutely beautiful thought...
Reminds me of the yin and yang. The balance of light and dark; with a little bit of dark in the light and little bit of light in the dark.
I did some research afterwards about this. I was not even aware of the concept of "the dark night of the soul" until my research lead me there.
I realized I was on the right path. A good path. A path few will ever travel.
That too, was enlightening.
GeauxHomeLittleD, you know what I really came to?
Compassion.
Compassion for all.
I saw what so many go through. I felt the pain of the world. At first I was very angry.
Then I understood...
The deepest Compassion I've ever known was born in me; and it came from that "dark night."
It lead me to an even deeper form of Love. (I can feel it)
Thank you for your wisdom. Duely noted.
I wanted to add a thought I just had to this.
Something I ran across while studying on what had happened to me.
In the Bible, When Jacob "wrestled with God" one night until the sun started to come up, and the "angel of the Lord" he was "wrestling with" said to him, "let go of me." Jacob responded, "not until you bless me."
Some see this as a spiritual awakening. More specifically, some say this represents the "dark night of the soul."
And apparently that wrestling match tool place on "Mt. Pineal." And is where we get the word "pineal gland" or "third eye" or "seat of the soul."
I found this thought quite interesting.
Jacob even came out of it with a "new name." (And cracked hip)
They live.
We sleep.
We sleep.