# in the shadows

**Published by:** [Salon de l’Empress](https://paragraph.com/@empresstrash/)
**Published on:** 2025-08-16
**Categories:** art, writing, balance, tao, lightanddark, philosophy, feministwriting, spirituality, cosmos, black, white
**URL:** https://paragraph.com/@empresstrash/in-the-shadows

## Content

Light and dark do balance each other and while because of generational propaganda dark has been demonized, the light can be just as unforgiving if not more cruel than what the shadows hide sometimes. The darkness is just an allegory for the unknown, humanity's greatest fear which we are cursed with insatiable curiosity to constantly confront. While there are horrors beyond comprehension in the unknown, there is also in the shadows the most vulnerable precious parts. They hide there not because of what is in the shadows with them. They hide because of the monsters that walk in broad light and everyone just defacto accepts as good and non-malevonent because they don't hide. In ecology, predators sneak and hide in the hunt but they also are afforded the luxury to just travel freely even in the light most places because rarely they are the hunted. Prey however hides in the shadows continuously. However, would you demonize a bunnies for generations to learn how to outwit the fox so it's not eaten? Or demonize the fox for just wanting a meal? No, they both just are ~ just like light and dark are both just exist and our own morality, values, ego all of it are reflected back to us. So yes, the dialogue between light and dark has endured as long as existance has endured and will continue to endure and evolve finding balance without stagnation through eternity.

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