An excerpt from You Are the One by Kute Blackson –
Life will always be filled with ups and downs. It’s the law of nature. Yin and yang, light and dark. It’s the nature of life and it’s okay. We must embrace the duality inherent within life. Without the night, there is no day. Without male, there is no female. Without black, there is no white. Without negative, there is no positive. Spending your life trying to make everything be light only creates suffering. Spending your energy to only hold on to light is not freedom. We must learn to embrace the darkness, and in doing so, we transform ourselves. In accepting the nature of life, we accept what is and what isn’t and experience freedom. Life will always have expansion and contraction. When you stop seeking for perfection outside in the constantly changing world and realise that inside you is the ultimate perfection, that your soul is perfect beyond duality, beyond good or bad – when you understand that, you are free. Truly free. You see that life is perfect even in it’s seeming imperfection.