final time, Campbell said it best. He's my spiritual father. If Mary Oliver is my spiritual mother, definitely he's my spiritual father. He said, “Life is at the same time monstrous and miraculous, and we need to embrace both aspects, but in the center of it, there is a sweetness.” And I think that sweetness is love.
When we can tap into that sweetness, then we can bear with the darkness and the light, with the monstrosities of the world and the miracles of the world, without needing to cut one out in order to embody and enjoy the other. We can't, even if we wanted to, we can’t decide that life will be only the light. So, to understand that all opposites are complementary to each other, and that we need the dark to be able to see the light in the first place. At least it's what I'm working on in my life. Every time I go to one side too much, I try to bring myself back and I think that's part of our journey today, we should be exploring.
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As a scientist and spiritual seeker who has suffered through many bouts of clinical depression and dark nights of the soul, I resonate deeply here. It is the reason I refer to myself as “anonemoose monk”. }:- a.m.
Thank you Fabiana for light in the darkness, for reminding us to pause and see and feel awe while we acknowledge the sweetness in the middle of the monstrous and miraculous ♡