You can see the simplicity of what is literal, or you can look beyond it.

The great challenge lies in duality. We know that wherever there is greater darkness, there also lies the greatest potential to reveal the light.
Darkness is also information. Yet it exists beyond our usual perception, and we can only decipher it when we confront it.
The profound message of darkness cannot be conveyed through light. It is a revealer par excellence of those situations that remained hidden and that, otherwise, we would never have been able to learn about.

That is why the power of darkness is more than the simple absence of light. It has a value of its own and exists for a reason, for a purpose. When we integrate thought, emotion, and action, keeping them connected and developing them in unison, we discover that the power of will goes far beyond what is rational.
In this way, our setbacks can become pure strength to move forward, transform ourselves, and grow.

This is the spark that cannot be extinguished. The one that knows the art of patient waiting and knows how to wait until the right moment to reappear.
Because it knows where it comes from. And it knows where it is going.

Getting lost is also part of the process. Whoever, consciously or unconsciously, never gets lost, never truly finds themselves.
Because it is in the face of adversity that we discover what we are truly made of.
And it is precisely in that instant, in that very moment, that our soul recognizes its own DNA.

Then, that identity which had remained hidden takes conscious control of the situation.
It works from within. And it makes us rediscover what has always been there.

by Mayda Janet Padrón Martínez