We crave darkness but deem it inappropriate, sneaking it and giving it a bad reputation. Darkness is the feminine, the wild, the untamed—the parts of ourselves we resist.
It is therefore vital that we re-contextualize and exalt the dark as much as the light, so that we can begin to enter this world we crave and operate there skillfully.
In darkness, we meet our bodies—laughing, weeping, blushing, arousal. We cannot control or hide what we feel, and that is the vulnerability that reveals us.
When we surrender to this reality, we realize that liberation lies in accepting the involuntary, and we have a greater range of available responses because we begin to include those we censored. And here, we are true to ourselves.