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Elizabeth Gilbert Author, Memoirist
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"The notion is that human beings are born, (as my Guru has explained many times,) with equivalent potential for both contraction and expansion. The ingredients of both darkness and light are equally present in all of us, and then it's up to the individual (or the family, or the society) to decide what will be brought forth - the virtues or the malevolence. The madness of this planet is largely a result of human being's difficulty in coming into virtuous balance with himself. Lunacy (both collective and individual) results."

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Carl Jung Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst
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"Enlightenment consists not merely in the seeing of luminous shapes and visions, but in making the darkness visible. The latter procedure is more difficult and therefore, unpopular."

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Victor Hugo Novelist, Poet
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"If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness."

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Henri Nouwen Theologian, Author
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"Joy is based on the spiritual knowledge that, while the world in which we live is shrouded in darkness, God has overcome the world."

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Connie Zweig Author, Psychologist
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"As each layer of shadow is mined from the darkness, as each fear is faced and each projection reclaimed, the gold shines through."

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Anne Sexton Poet, Author
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"I’ll put it out there: I am scarred by the nostalgic indicipherability of my own desires; I an engulfed by the intimidating unknown, pushed through darkness and dragged down by the irretrievable past sweetness of my memories."

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Victor Hugo Novelist, Poet
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"A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn."

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Timothy Keller Pastor, Author
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"God made you to love him supremely, but he lost you. He returned to get you back, but it took the cross to do it. He absorbed your darkness so that one day you can finally and dazzlingly become your true self and take your seat at his eternal feast."

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Mother Teresa Missionary, Nun
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"We need to give Christ a chance to make use of us, to be His word and His work, to share His food and His clothing in the world today. If we do not radiate the light of Christ around us, the sense of the darkness that prevails in the world will increase."

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