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Finding The Hidden Light
Anything or anyone who does not bring you alive
Is too small for you.
— David Whyte
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Rachel Naomi Remen during the On Being podcast, “We are here because we are born with the capacity to find the hidden light in all events and all people. To lift it up and make it visible once again. And thereby to restore the innate wholeness of the world. We heal the world one heart at a time. The fact is, that life is full of losses and disappointments, and the art of living is to make of them something that can nourish others.”
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“Only in the darkness can you see the star,” says Dr. Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. In this way, we are both aware of the darkness and the star and that between them is the heart’s longing and the soul’s awakening. If you are in darkness, you have to open your eyes to see the light and to know it is yours, and to be willing to do the work of letting your self be infused with that light.
Art … is a way to heal trauma and heartache. It is a way to take the raw stuff of grief, fear, despair, anger, powerlessness, and sorrow, and transmute them into something that is beyond ourselves, something that points to the indomitable human spirit and the fact that our lives are part of Indra’s web reflecting every facet of the universe. We can uplift…
