Chapter Fifty Six: A Box of Darkness

Someone I once loved gave me a box of darkness.

It took me years to undetstand

that this too, was a gift.

Mary Oliver

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Knowing your own darkness is the best method

for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

Carl Jung

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Look at how a single candle can both

defy and define the darkness.

Anne Frank

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Darkness cannot drive out darkness:

only light can do that.

Hate cannot drive out hate:

only love can do that.

Martin Luther King Jr.

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Creativity -- like human life itself --

begins in darkness.

Julia Cameron

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You will fear the darkness only to the extent

that you yourself are not providing light.

Marianne Williamson

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All the darkness in the world cannot

extinguish the light of a single candle.

St Francis of Assisi

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By running from what we fear,

we feed the inner darkness!

Tara Brach

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Light and shadow are opposite sides

of the same coin. We can illuminate our paths

or darken our way. It is a matter of choice.

Maya Angelou

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There are no shadows in the dark.

Shadows are the servants of light,

the children of fire. The brightest flame

casts the darkest shadows.

George R.R. Martin

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I think that light and shadow have exactly

the same duality that exists

between life and death.

Manuel Alvarez Bravo

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