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"It seems to me that the darkness that has troubled you ... comes from one very serious source. Without wanting to be in conflict with the truth and with the will of God, we are actually going against God's will and His teaching."
"What we`re seeing in so many of the counterprotests. We`re seeing America rise in a way that it did not in the `60s, which I think is powerful and symbolic to the rest of the world, that we reject the darkness and we embrace the light."
"How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness."
"There are no clear paths. Only pitfalls and tripwires and darkness."
"The last good time always comes, and when you see the darkness creeping toward you, you hold on to what was bright and good. You hold on for dear life."
"It's how we see the world that keeps the darkness beyond at bay. Keeps it from pouring through and devouring us. I think all of us might know that, way down deep."
"She did not know if her gift came from the lord of light or of darkness, and now, finally finding that she didn't care which, she wad overcome with almost indescribable relief, as if a huge weight, long carried, had slipped from her shoulders."
"Things come in three major degrees in the human experience, I think. There's good, bad, and terrible. And as you go down into progressive darkness towards terrible, it gets harder and harder to make subdivisions."
"Let there be more darkness"
"If not then you must be trying to hear us and in such cases we cannot be heard. We remain in the darkness, unseen. In the center of unpeeled bananas, we exist. Uncolored by perception. Clothed to the naked eye. Five senses cannot sense the fact of our existence. And that's the only fact. In fact, there are no facts."
"Its oke to be sad. I've been trained to love my darkness"
"I remember watching the mascara tears flood the ivories and I thought, "It's OK to be sad." I've been trained to love my darkness."
"It was all so clear now. Like everything had been lost in darkness, and then the sun came out. Some moments are like that."
"Darkness, true darkness, is something more than lack of light."
"Lies, lies are the place where darkness grows."
"Who would not be pleased at carrying lamps helpfully through the darkness?"
"The Bhagavadgita is a gospel of non-co-operation between the forces of darkness and those of light."
"A nonviolent struggle necessarily involves construction on a small scale. It cannot therefore lead to tamas or darkness or inertia."
"There is a power now slumbering within us, which is awakened would do to evil what light does to darkness."
"Violence will prevail over violence, only when someone can prove to me that darkness can be dispelled by darkness"
