Time of choices and passions

Spring has arrived, pushing away the dark melancholy of winter. The contrast between the two seasons mirrors the contrasts within ourselves. We are both light and dark, colorful and plain. Do we need to shed the winter of our souls to embrace the rebirth of spring?

We are compromised of both for good reasons. "The shadow is the person we would rather not be...(However) one does not become enlightened by imaginary figures of light but by making the darkness conscious."

Our shadows exist to teach us, guide us, and give us the blessings of our entire selves. They are the resources for us to expose and explore. The feelings that we have suppressed are desperate to be integrated into ourselves. They are only harmful when they are repressed: then they can pop up at the least opportune times. Their sneak attacks will handicap us in the areas of our life that mean the most.

"Our life will be transformed when we make peace with our shadow. The caterpillar will become a breathtakingly beautiful butterfly. We will no longer have to pretend to be someone we're not. We will no longer have to prove we're good enough. When we embrace we shadow, we will no longer have to live in fear. Find the gifts of our shadow and we will finally revel in all the glory of our true self. Then we will have the freedom to create the life we have always desired."

Lets summon our deepest selves. Cultivating the kind of knowing that doesn't depend on following paper trails and keeping up with proliferating piles of information seems essential as our world speeds up and problems become more complex. Imagine if we surrendered our compulsion to devour information and instead trusted intuition, if we listened to first impressions and acted from a deep sense of harmony. Operating this way, what we needed to know would simply occur to us, and whoever was supposed to do the task would be the first to do it.

Spring is the mother of new creation. Tender blades of grass rise from the barren earth, flowers bloom, leaves burst forth and fawns appear in the meadows. Puppies play while kittens frolic. She allows us to be seized with joy and a zest for life, enchanted when the butterfly takes wing and the rainbow glitters above. Even while we continue to recognize our winters, we should let our souls revel in spring. Among her best gifts are an enthusiasm that creates momentum, an anticipation of the future and awe at the wonders of our world. Spring is also a time of choices and passions. We need to let our choices and our passions combine and become the life force of our creative endeavors.