Holistic Peer Counseling System

You are the Storm in the Void

You, illumined being, deeply good, made of love, stardust, violence and desire, you with your repetitive thoughts, you who long for peace and strive for the fulfillment of your desires, you who are angry and cynical, who hide your anguish, your resentments, your love, you who show a composed face to your friends and to strangers, you whose rage bursts forth unexpectedly, in public or in secret, you who survive each successive day, fragmented and spread across the complexity of your life, repeating the same tasks countless times, you who compose and resurrect yourself again and again, attain inner peace and beam forth love, change in minute and myriad ways, you are divine and all this is divine. There is no purpose, other than this, no action, other than Being, in no particular way and in every which way. There is only this: You are glorious, flashing chaos that organizes itself into magnificent order. You return to chaos and reorganize yourself, oscillating between these two states moment to moment. You are a storm in a void. This is your divine nature. Yet there is no desire greater than to remain organized and to do and do and do, and to outpace the stillness of nothing. And this, too, is divine. As you suffer, hide, fight, scream, delight, love, touch, smile, sing, you are your purpose. As you forget this, you are your purpose, as you remember, you are that, as you believe it and disbelieve it, you are that. You are the storm of life in the void. And all of this is known to you and all of this is hidden. And that, too, is your divine nature.

This is the meaning of shadow work, a most valuable enterprise. When you have finally said to the shadow ‘you may live,’ when you have finally surrendered your efforts to slay it, to decimate, forget and deny it, then you can move forward and begin to recognize, one by one, the dreams, the fears and hates, the pain and rejection, the untapped potential and passion, as the seat of your vitality. And when you grant your shadow this fundamental right, when you welcome it back into the fold of your being, it will turn to you in the fullness of its enigma. And in its gaze you will see that this, too, is the god in you.