Why does suffering persist as long as love does not integrate the shadow?
I will now go a little further, because if we do not understand separation and reconnection, we cannot understand suffering, collective karma, or the meaning of what we are going through.
Separation is not a mistake.
It is a movement of consciousness allowing itself to become visible to itself.
Without separation, there is no perspective, no choice, no responsibility.
But the problem is not separation itself.
The problem begins when separation becomes a state rather than a passage.
At that point, the being experiences itself as cut off:
from itself,
from others,
from Life.
This is where fear, struggle, domination, and escape are born.
And this is where suffering takes root.
Why does suffering persist?
Because love, as long as it remains idealized, refuses to enter the shadow.
We love what is luminous, coherent, acceptable.
But we reject:
anger,
jealousy,
fear,
shame,
inner violence.
What love does not integrate, consciousness experiences as suffering.
Suffering is not a punishment.
It is a signal.
It precisely indicates the place where love has not yet flowed.
As long as the shadow is fought, it operates in the unconscious.
As long as it is denied, it governs reality.
And as long as it is unrecognized, it repeats itself.
This is why karma persists, individually and collectively.
Not because we are guilty,
but because we have not yet learned to consciously love what we refuse to see.
Reconnection does not happen by fleeing the shadow.
It happens by crossing it with presence.
And this is where the wisdom of Solomon takes on its full meaning.
Solomon was not wise because he chose light over shadow.
He was wise because he was able to hold both.
He understood that good and evil, light and darkness,
are not enemies, but forces to be integrated under the authority of consciousness.
His wealth, power, and inner peace
did not come from an idealized purity,
but from his capacity to embrace the totality of the human experience without losing himself.
He knew that what is not integrated becomes destructive,
and that what is recognized is transformed.
This is the same law today.
We will not emerge from collective suffering by trying to be only “light.”
We will emerge when love is mature enough to descend into the shadow,
without judging it, without fleeing it, without identifying with it.
That is reconnection.
It is not a return to the past.
It is a conscious reunification.
And as long as this reunification does not occur,
suffering remains the language of consciousness,
reminding us of what we have not yet integrated.
Nada Rachid
