Can We?

From the Sasuraibito Tarot, the Lovers; from the Soul Cards, 'Light and Darkness:'

          Can we embrace all of ourselves - the flaws and the talents, the assets and the liabilities? Can we see ourselves as an imperfectly whole human, one whose goal is to be decent rather than reach some ideal? We cannot change anything that we don't first acknowledge and accept; simply trying to stomp it out only strengthens it. Can we, as illustrated by the Light and Darkness card, befriend all our parts? Those parts stir our compassion when we realize that our imperfect pieces of humanness connect us to each other. Healing our fractured mind and heart is the first step in healing our fractured world.

Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off a portion of one’s being, but by integration of the contraries. – Carl Jung