The dark does not destroy the light; it defines it. It’s our fear of the dark that casts our joy into the shadows.
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Light is shallow; darkness is infinitely deep. Light is always bounded, it has boundaries. Darkness has no boundaries, it is unbounded. Light comes and goes; darkness always is. When there is light you cannot see it. When light is not there you can see it. But it is always there; you cannot cause it. Light has a cause. You burn the fire, you put on wood. When the wood is finished the light will be gone. It is caused, hence it is an effect. But darkness is not caused by anything, it is not an effect. It is uncaused eternity.
The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us.
If you are afraid of the dark, you seek the light. But what do you do when even the light is filled with terrors?
What darkness to you is light to me
At first we cannot see beyond the path that leads downward to dark and hateful things but no light or beauty will ever come from the man who cannot bear this sight. Light is always born of darkness, and the sun never yet stood still in heaven to satisfy man's longing or to still his fears.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.
In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
The light of love shines “<i>in</i> the darkness” (John 1:5), in suffering, in confusion, in all that we will never understand. Love makes darkness itself shine. This opens altogether new possibilities for dealing creatively with the shadow side of reality. Words can only serve as pointers; we must put this to the test in our own dark hours. Those who have done so, those who have suffered lovingly, have discovered the transformative power of love.
Nothing makes the light, the wonder, the treasure stand out so well as darkness.
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We cannot fully appreciate the light without the shadows.
Light is the chaser away of darkness. Shade is the obstruction of light
Who are we, if not What we make of the dark.
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