Kill your darlings is a principle that anyone in a creative field does well to consider. Say you are a painter. You know something about your painting is not working but oh, that one particular part is perfect, so you work around what you want to preserve.
Soon, you learn that the painting comes together as a whole. So, you take a breath and kill the darling.
Snake comes one last time, at the end of the year of, to show us how this applies to life?
To kill a snake, because we see and fear it as the Destroyer, is to kill creativity. Creation and destruction are necessarily linked. How can you possibly expect to move forward, without shedding the limiting skin of the past?
Consider these scenarios:
No matter what people do to you, you remain determined to see the very best in them. Is the darling an illusion? Are you willing to transform it, so you can see them as they are? If not, why? Because loving what you don’t like will be far more difficult?
Maybe the darling is projecting your faults on another. After all, as long as you are judging the other, you do not have to address your own issues. Kill the darling, so you can hear your True Self’s voice.
Have you been blessed with the burden of seeing everything through a spiritual lens? If so, why would you think that everybody else does? They don’t. Is needing to belong your little darling? Is it costing you, your very soul?
When was the last time a prophet won a popularity contest? Tell the truth – how our choices today, are creating our tomorrows. And then, expect pushback, knowing that most people prefer appearances to the truth.
Lastly, do you believe that because you have willingly suffered that you are better than, more spiritual than other people? That is the ugliest little darling of all. Transmute it!
What little darlings keep you from accepting what is in yourself and in other people? Don’t you see; Life is the initiation into Wholeness! Kill your darlings!
Making Spirit Flesh*
Think of a time when the thing you feared would destroy you, actually gave you a gift.
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