It is ultimately the ebony of our pain, our blackest monuments, which lead us to seek an enlightened way of living. We are unable to hear the voice leading to our own salvation until we fall into the depths of an abbess manufactured by living a heedless life. From this state of floundering in the gloomy lagoon, we can awaken to find the light bearing the seeds of truth that will redeem us. Looking inward, we overcome stubborn resistance, and we revivify long lost and forgotten powers. The experience of soul-searching perspicacity transfigures us. We might even feel as if we died a spiritual death and then we were reborn. From our dark pit, a shaft of light emerges. . Kilroy J. Oldster
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In the poem by Rilke, “The Black Swan,” the speaker says that we need to fall into a dark abyss in order to hear a voice that guides us to a higher place. In other words, we need a black swan to experience a higher form of existence. In this poem, the black swan is a symbol of our own darkness. It is our fear and our pain that inspires us to seek something better. We do not see ourselves as we truly are until we fall into such darkness.

Source: Dead Toad Scrolls

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