A step into darkness is a step into the unknown. You are taking a chance. Believing in something that you haven't experienced before. It is exciting and brings emotions and thoughts that you wouldn't have otherwise experienced. It is allowing yourself to find what's missing. If you never take a chance you may never find what is absent. You may not ever know that there was something to miss!
There is a feeling that there is something more. Something way bigger than any of us can imagine. We are a part of that. It draws all of us in and that is where the desire begins. It begins deep within us. Somewhere that we inhabited as a child, but a place that we have taught ourselves to ignore. We don't want to allow ourselves the freedom. We want everything to be controlled and everything to look perfect. We want things that we create to look exactly the way our mind sees them. We don't allow ourselves the room to be true creators. That is our birth right! We are creators! We are all artists.
In our society today we have gone away from our inventive nature. We no longer have a deep conviction in ourselves to change our future and to lead. We just float along and accept what life has given us. We do good things for people. We contribute to society, have families, go to church, fulfill duties. But we still yearn inside. There is a call from within to take us back to our roots. Back to where we feel the most succesful. Back to creating purely. We lose our natural gift to listen to our intuition as we are raised in society. We are taught the correct way to create. We are taught what is beautiful and what is not. What is realistic and what isn't. We follow everyone's lead. We make decisions of how to live our life based on other people's successes or failures. We chart our journey and compare it to others' when we don't even know what we are comparing to. We have forgotten the true sense of being completely present at every moment, and enjoying everything that we have and everything that we are in the moment.
It's time to wake up! It's time to DO something about it. It's time to allow ourselves the freedom to be who we really are and to express ourselves the way we choose to! It's time to forget the things that we have learned about creating. The things that don't matter. Who is to say what is good, bad, ugly or beautiful. Who is to say that an "artist" has to be someone who paints with precise proportion, technique, shape and contrast? Who makes up these rules that are dying to be broken? There is an endless abundance of creations waiting to be born inside of you. They are made up of who you are and all that you are. They are as unique and beautiful as you. They will lead you to realize things about yourself and your journey in life. They will lead you where your future waits for you.
Doesn't that sound exciting? Doesn't it make you just want to jump out of your chair and cut the chains that are holding you prisoner and create? How do we go about doing this? How do we get out of the prison that we have let ourselves get locked into?
We have to take the first step into darkness. That first scary step into the unknown world of creation. The world that is laying dormant within us. Everyone's world is different because we are all different. We have to be strong enough to let go. We have to let go of what our mind is telling us and inhabit the place that is pure within us. When we do there is a joy that comes with that freedom to express.
If the desire is there. Follow it, and see where it leads. One step at a time it will lead you on a journey deep within yourself, and it will open the flood gates of creativity into your life.
