One Of My Favorite Quotes
Welcome to DreamDoorways! Dreams have been my passion since I was a teenager. They are just one aspect of my overall passion for spiritual unfoldment, or stated another way, pursuing further understanding of why we are in the earth plane and what we can do to enhance and enliven our journey through this dimension. In that light, the thought that I want to share now, is regarding a quote from Carl Jung that I ran across a year or so ago. It goes something like this, not necessarily a direct quote:
“Enlightenment is not found by envisioning figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.”
This rang bells in my cells when I first read it, and not in an intellectual way, but because I have lived this. Over the years that I have been on this “path” I have done a lot of deep inner work and found that personal “growth” is a snap. The leaps of consciousness and expansion of awareness occur with no effort at all. The enlightenment is easy. It occurs spontaneously after the “making the darkness conscious".
It is the “making the darkness conscious” that requires some effort, work, and a little pain, of the emotional sort. It requires total honesty with oneself, about oneself, and facing the darkness, sometimes known as the monsters within. You will find yourself, crying, shaking with fear or anger, maybe pounding pillows, as you release long repressed “stuff”. But it passes, with the use of a technique or two, or three, and the understanding that the goal in bringing these feelings up is to let them go. Acknowledge, face, release, forgive, and love yourself. Then the Light dawns, the literal feeling of being lighter, being different, newborn, wells up almost as if by magic. To feel this new freedom and find aspects of yourself you didn’t know were there comes naturally after the cathartic release of the old blocks and barriers that were hiding in the subconscious.
We cannot unfold our enlightenment and highest potential by creating a façade of syrupy positive thinking and speaking. A positive attitude is important, crucial even, and so is facing the darkness within. It must be owned and transformed.
I have found lots of ways to do this, and have done a lot of it over the years. Of course, my dreams have helped me along the way. Dreams are an excellent and trustworthy companion in this journey toward enlightenment.
Dream on!!!
Julia