“When we have no choice but to become greater, we do.”
As we said on Monday:
Darkness — pain, suffering, trauma, fear, doubt, anxiety, illness, disease — is not scary.
Darkness is not scary; fear of darkness is scary.
Darkness uses fear as it’s power source, weaponizing our imagination against us.
Remove the fear, remove the power, and darkness dissolves on it’s own.
Which brings us to Part 2:
How do we stop fearing the darkness?
The answer:
Use it productively.
When a negative is used to create a positive, the negative itself becomes a positive.
So our strategy is simple:
Find the benefit hiding in the darkness, and turn it to our advantage.
(as a teacher once told me… if you’re living with a demon, have it make your coffee in the morning)
And there is perhaps no greater benefit to the darkness than this:
When the darkness closes in, when our back is against the ropes and heavy blows are raining down…
…When we have no choice but to find a deeper well of strength to pull from and fight back…
…We do.
We find our deeper strength, strength that hides under the surface when life is smooth and easy, waiting until the day we need it.
A well of strength that, once accessed, can be accessed again.
Strength that can be pulled from for the rest of our lives.
Yes, darkness makes us stronger.
Because when the bar is about to crush us, we lift it.
When the tiger is at our heels, we run faster.
And, when we have no choice but to become greater, we do.
– T
P.S. In case you missed it:
This clip pairs perfectly with today’s email.
