The Light Within You

April 3, 2019 Dedy Ti'en

The Light Within You

Do you have someone in your life that you perceive as the cause of your unhappiness? Where they are not taking full responsibility for their own pain, they seem to project that pain on to you. How would you deal with it? Would you fight it? Or would you let it be?

Would you agree if I say to you that if you fight someone’s pain, you tend to carry their pain with you? Would you accept if I tell you that whatever that you fight tends to become stronger, whatever that is, could be someone’s pain or their unconscious behaviour? I am a father of two beautiful daughters, and I have a lovely partner that I will die for, but you know, sometimes you go through those periods where you press each other’s buttons. I’m curious how would you approach this? Would you choose to react or respond if someone were to press your buttons?

I personally would choose to respond, as I came to the realisation that all of us are conditioned in a certain way by our upbringing, environment and belief system. I believe deep within each one of us there’s a beautiful light that shines like a star or sparkling diamond, unfortunately, as we grow up that light slowly decreases it's brightness because it gets cluttered by our circumstances. How would we recognise that light in someone if we were to react to their unconscious behaviour? Now we understand the saying “forgive them for they know not what they do.” All of us sometimes unintentionally can say things out of hurt, and we don’t mean it, but instead of looking beyond our unconscious patterns, we make it as our identity or condemn and judge ourselves.

Maybe you can relate to this, where you know that you feel hurt, and unconsciously you want to hurt that person back who wronged you, but somehow deep down you recognise yourself in him or her, so you decide not to proceed. Instead, you compassionately design loving words to comfort him or her. Why is that I wonder? Is that because the light within you recognise the light within the other? Maybe. So the truth is that we do it with or without our conscious awareness. It looks like, at the unconscious level, the light within us recognise each other. If only we could tune in more, If only we could sit still and look at each other in the eye with the intention to understand that light within.

What would the world look like if we were to allow our lights within to shine bright? I believe the world would be a better place if we were to dig deeper to find the light within and to respond to each other from that place.

The Light Within You