"Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow."
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"How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow? I must have a dark side also If I am to be whole"
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"Projection [of our own shadow] makes the whole world a replica of our own unknown face."
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"The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself; but is the Theist any other? Well, perhaps; for he has seen the shadow of God and clutched at it."
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"What is the body? That shadow of a shadow of your love, that somehow contains the entire universe."
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"Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten."
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"Shadow is the obstruction of light. Shadows appear to me to be of supreme importance in perspective, because, without them opaque and solid bodies will be ill defined; that which is contained within their outlines and their boundaries themselves will be ill-understood unless they are shown against a background of a different tone from themselves."
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"To confront a person with their own shadow is to show them their own light."
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"We are, in fact, hyper-dimentional objects of some sort which cast a shadow into matter, and the shadow in matter is the body. And at death, what happens basically, is that the shadow withdraws, or the thing which cast the shadow withdraws, and metabolism ceases, and matter which had been organized into a dissipative structure in a very localized area, sustaining itself against entropy by cycling material in and degrading it and expelling it, that whole phenomenon ceases, but the thing which ordered it is not affected by that."
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"This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness...they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die."
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"A water snake glided smoothly up the pool, twisting its periscope head from side to side; and it swam the length of the pool and came to the legs of a motionless heron that stood in the shadows. A silent head and beak lanced down and plucked it out by the head, and the beak swallowed the little snake while its tail waved frantically."
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"What is life if not the shadow of a fleeting dream?"
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"Beside the brook and on the umbered meadow, Where yellow fern-tufts fleck the faded ground, With folded lids beneath their palmy shadow The gentian nods in dewy slumbers bound."
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"Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death"
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"If you follow the classical pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow -- you are not understanding yourself."
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"Everything that is,casts a shadow"
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"Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind. If you speak and act with a pure mind, happiness will follow you, as a shadow clings to a form."
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"To abandon the present in order to look for things in the future is to throw away the substance and hold onto the shadow."
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"Where the light is brightest, the shadows are deepest."
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"A hunter of shadows, himself a shade."
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