The wound is
the place where
LIGHT
enters you.
~ Jalal ad-din Rumi
-Translated by Coleman Barks.
Perhaps the hardest place to expose,
it’s not easy to allow it to be seen.
Our human nature is to protect ourselves.
We are hardwired for survival.
Throughout our lifetimes, we have learned
countless defense mechanisms and coping strategies
to keep ourselves safe,
to protect our vulnerable wounds.
But there is One Most Brilliant Light
Who sees all and knows all,
more than we can know of ourselves.
Behind every wound is a place that was
once only seeking Light,
and still seeks that Light today.
This place is still known, by you and The One.
Within every wound is a yearning
to return to consciously subsist
in the Unconditional Love
that emanates from the One Light.
Be brave, and let the Light
shine through the crack in that doorway
which returns you to LOVE.
You are living in an Ocean.
Swim.
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