Words of Power: One Foot in the Light and the Other in the Dark

Wednesday, September 04, 2013

One Foot in the Light and the Other in the Dark

Graffiti of 2PAC in Ipanema, Rio De Janeiro.
Photo Credit: Mary C. Salome/Wikipedia

"Perhaps I was addicted to the dark side / Somewhere inside my childhood I missed my heart die ... / Remember me, as an outcast outlaw / Another album out that's what I'm about, more / Gettin raw till the day I see my casket / Buried as a g while the whole world remembers me / Until the end of time ..." -- Tupac Shakur, Until the End of Time

A spirituality that does not embrace the shadow is a feeble, stunted thing.

Walk with one foot in the light and the other in the dark; you will need both to journey into the wilderness of truth and beauty.

The Yin and the Yang flow into and out of each other, they cannot be siphoned off and separated, together they shape the circle of life. Evil is that which has fallen outside the circle of life; it is not dark, it is not Yin (and it typically disguises itself as "light" anyway).

A spirituality that does not embrace the shadow is a feeble, stunted thing.

Walk with one foot in the light and the other in the dark; you will need both to journey into the wilderness of truth and beauty.

-- Richard Power

Power's eighth book, Humanifesto: A Guide to Primal Reality in an Era of Global Peril , is available now in soft cover and Kindle versions, from Amazon and elsewhere.

About Richard Power

Richard Power is a writer, speaker and yoga teacher. He offers workshops, classes and private instruction in yoga and meditation. He is the author of 14 books, most important are Wyrds of Power: New Languagee for A New Reality (2017), I, the Dragon: Chronicles of An Epic Life Among the Humans (2018), and Secret Engine of the World: Further Notes on Primal Reality, Gaian Politics & the Arc of Human Evolution (2021). For more information on all of Power's other books, visit his author's page on Amazon.com.

For much of his life, Power worked in the fields of security and intelligence. He delivered briefings and led training in forty countries, and was an adviser to governments and corporations. His views have been featured in interviews on CNN, PBS, NPR and the BBC, and quoted in mainstream news media, including Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, New York Times, Washington Post, Reuters and Associated Press.

This blog explores new language for the truths of the ancient future, and reflects insights into Vajrayana Buddha Dharma, Kashmir Shiva-Sakti philosophy, Hatha and Tantra Yoga, the Shamanic path, and other aspects of the world's collective mystical heritage. It also offers commentary on art, music, literature, human rights, sustainability, independent journalism, economic justice and the Climate Crisis.