It could be said that the point of our journey in this one life we are given is to unravel the great mystery of who we are.
We spend much of our lives carefully constructing an identity … from all our experiences, from everything our caregivers and elders teach us, from all that influences us and seeks to define us.
This identity we build helps us navigate our lives and relationships, and allows us to create experiences of belonging. But it can also create a prison for the immense vastness of our soul which needs freedom of heart and mind to truly unfurl.
Our constructed identities create limits for how we express ourselves in our lives.
We begin to believe that those limits are necessary because they help us stay in familiar and known territory.
They keep us ‘safe’ …
But these constructions of our mind create a ‘shadow’ made up of all the things we have decided we are not … and all the things we’ve decided we cannot be or do, because we have made those things ‘other’. The shadow in us will always seek some kind of resolution, it will always seek to leave the dark spaces of our psyche. Because there is in us always an inner push toward wholeness, toward being ALL of who we were meant to be. We were always meant to smash that fragile frame we’ve built around us … that scaffold of clay. We were made to shatter that thing and let out our light … a particular kind of light that is created from wholeness, for it has tamed the darkness!
This is the light that fills us and is the very reason we are here, on this planet, at this time … to shine this light that only we can shine. And, to echo Marianne Williamson, as you shine your light so will others feel permission to shine theirs.
This is the salvation of the world … 
