When I was in the fourth grade growing up in Boise Idaho, and like many young children, I experienced a fear of the dark. In the winter I stayed after school for extracurricular activities and it was always dark when I walked home, and I walked by myself as no one else went the way I did.
I lived on the North end of Boise, where the streets were lined with trees and they grew together over the streets forming a dense canopy. At the intersections of each block, the trees were trimmed so that the light from the streetlights could be seen, while the block itself was in the dark. I would walk as slowly as I could through the lit intersections, and run as fast as I could where the street was dark. I carried this fear of the dark with me for many years. Even falling asleep in the dark had its own level of anxiety.
As an adult, I heard the old Persian story of a man looking for something under a streetlight. A policeman approached him and asked what he was doing. The man replied he was looking for his keys. The policeman then asked, is this where you lost them? And, the man replied, No, yet this is where the light is. This is so common as most of us not only do not want to look in those darker places inside us, and we will do almost anything to avoid doing so, even knowing there is immense freedom in doing so.
And yet, in those places where we are “wounded,” that is where the light is. And in looking and feeling what is there, we discover our fears are simply phantoms of the mind and they disappear like smoke. Our darkness is simply a place where we have not shown our light.
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