THE CIRCULAR EMPOWERMENT.
The light you hold in your hand is the consciousness of your own existence. To witness the cosmos is to look into a mirror that has no edges.
Fuxi and Nüwa, the primordial creator deities and mythological siblings of Chinese mythology, depicted with entwined serpent bodies resembling a DNA double helix.
“...Conflict engenders fire, the fire of affects and emotions, and like every other fire it has two aspects: that of burning and that of creating light.
On the one hand, emotion is the alchemical fire whose warmth brings everything into existence and whose heat burns all 🧵
MOST PEOPLE DIE WITHOUT EVER BECOMING WHO THEY WERE MEANT TO BE
Not because the potential wasn’t there. Because it was never brought out. The Gospel of Thomas, one of the Gnostic texts excluded from the canonical Bible, contains some of the most psychologically precise teachings attributed to Jesus.
This logion is among the most devastating. It does not speak of sin in the moral sense. It speaks of suppression, of the inner life left unlived, the gifts left unexpressed, the self left unborn.
Jung arrived at the same place through a different door. He called the unlived life the shadow, not only the darkness we repress, but the light we are afraid to claim.
The person who does not confront what is within them does not simply remain neutral. The unexpressed becomes corrosive. It turns inward. The calling that is ignored does not disappear; it festers into bitterness, illness, or a nameless sense that something essential has been missed.
The Hermetic tradition spoke of the inner fire , the divine intelligence seeded within each soul that seeks expression through form. Paracelsus understood that every substance contains both its medicine and its poison. What heals you and what destroys you are often the same thing, distinguished only by whether you engage with it or not. The gift withheld becomes the wound.
This is not a metaphor. It is the mechanics of the psyche. What you carry without examining does not stay still. It moves. It shapes decisions, relationships, the trajectory of a life , all without your conscious participation.
The question this logion asks is not a comfortable one. It assumes you already know what is within you. The deeper terror is that you do.
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