Can't one have only the light?
Yes, if one eliminates the shadow.
But it must be eliminated.
That does no happen by itself.
The world as it is is a mixed world.
You cannot have an object
which gets the light from one side
without its casting its shadow on the other.
It is like that, and indeed it is the shadow
which makes you see the lights.
The world is like that,
and to have only the light
one must definitely go through the entire discipline
necessary for eliminating the shadow.
I have said that this shadow was like a sign
of what you had to conquer in your nature
in order to realise what you have come to do.
In each one of us there is a difficulty
which is more central than all the others;
it is the one which relative to the part we have to play in the world,
is like the shadow of that light,
a shadow wich gradually dissolves, fades more and more
as the light becomes more intense, more brilliant, more powerful
and extends to the whole being.
