Day and night - shadow and light.
We observe humankind through eras, cultures and times fighting against our human shadows:
We take 1.000 hours of therapy in order to become "healthy again".
We learn mental strategies to get rid of them and try to affirm them away.
We learn that we have to kill our ego.
We also learn that we can control everything by our cognition -
and if this doesn´t really help:
We try to simply look away.
We leave our wives or husbands and kids to follow a famous spiritual teacher.
Instead of following ourselves.
We even meditate our asses flat for 30 years.
We learn that "bad feelings" are not wanted if you wanna be smart and smooth,
drive a nice car and have an attractive young woman beside you -
and everything else that all the other winners and heroes have got...
We try to conquer the control - so that the shadows shall not control us.
We try to tell ourselves that we HAVE the control - so that fear doesn´t take over
what we believe we conquer thereby.
If we do not have control anymore - we at least try to play we have control -
towards ourselves and others.
Basically we´re standing there, the sun is shining on our back and we look in front of us -
trying to fight the shadow of our own being with all available weapons in our mind and hands!
It´s the fight of the "Goods" against the "Evils".
Subject of what is called "Good" and "Evil" were changing through times and cultures -
this oldest fight hasn´t changed within the universe of "Good" and "Evil".
Shadow sides belong to human existance in the creation we´re living in.
They´re part of us like an arm or a leg - that cannot be separated, even not by a nuclear bomb.
Shadows belong to a bigger meaning of existance most of us do not have the bigger picture to seize it -
or even still try to ignore existance, still playing that cognition is having ALL answers.
Like the answer to the question: "Who is Good and who is Evil?"
The naked and still not very famous truth is:
We do neither have the power nor the authority to cut off anything
of this all-including-existance.
But blinded
we go on treating our shadows the same absurd ways
as if we pointed on our own arm, asking in complaining tone:
"Who the hack put this thing here? What is it for? I wanna get rid of it!"
Then we point on our neighbour´s leg, asking:
"What´s that? - How ugly! Poor guy - let´s cut this off - I´ll give you a hand!"
Creation was never meant as an "amputation enterprise".
Neither for arms and legs - nor for what we call human shadowsides.
Here is human´s only and true authority:
We have the power to end this old fight against ourselves.
We cannot conquer LOVE by fighting for it.
In the moment we stop fighting - LOVE happens naturally.