"Wisdom is often born in the shadows,
frequently more visible in the darkness than the light.
The stadium lights of knowledge
that seek to eliminate natural cycles of night and day,
death and rebirth, sorrow and joy do not cast shadows-
there is only the steady glare of illumination.
We must move into darker places
if we are to find the wisdom we so desperately need. . . .
To meet wisdom in these places
we must be willing and able to hold all of what life gives us,
to exclude nothing of ourselves or the world,
to tell ourselves the truth.
Wisdom will stretch us far beyond
where we thought we could or wanted to go.
She will show us what we cannot change or control,
reveal what is hard to know about ourselves and the world,
and tear at the illusions of what we think we know,
until we are surrounded by the vastness of the mystery.
And all the while wisdom asks us to choose life.
She does not want us to just continue,
to hang on, to survive.
She asks us to experience life actively, fully, every day-
to show up for all of it."
~Oriah Mountain Dreamer from THE INVITATION
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