Darkness within Quotes

“It was like something lurking in the darkness within him...There is remained in the darkness, the great pain, tearing him at times, and then being silent.”

“The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao. The name that can be named is not the eternal name. The nameless is the beginning of heaven and earth. The named is the mother of ten thousand things. Ever desireless, one can see the mystery. Ever desiring, one can see the manifestations. These two spring from the same source but differ in name; this appears as darkness. Darkness within darkness. The gate to all mystery.”

“When you embrace the darkness within, you will always live in the light.”

“Darkness within clouds the world without.”

“But you must know that only he who fights the darkness within will the day after tomorrow have his own share in the sun.”

“...the clearer the light is, the more it blinds and darkens the pupil of the owl; and the more we look at the sun, the greater is the darkness it causes in our vision ... in the same way, when the divine light of contemplation assails the soul that is not wholly enlightened, it causes spiritual darkness within it.”

“Preaching love disguised as hate is worst than screaming aloud to the world the darkness within you”

“Never was a blind person blinded by the light that overwhelms his skin but blinded by the darkness within”

“Liz Emerson held so much darkness within her that closing her eyes didn't make much a difference at all.”