440 Quotes About Shadow

If you try to cultivate your talents in someone else’s shadow, they might wilt.

Yet a mysterious gate lay open within her shadow; and all my flesh was aware of black pathways and hovels and the silence one observes when the dead are near.

As time flies, its the kid who becomes his parents' shadow.

The rejection of the Shadow is one of the greatest failings of patriarchal religion. Life and Death are realities to our psyche. They are a package deal. Christianity tries to paint the Devil/Evil/Death as the enemy of God/Goddess/Life. Rather than giving the Devil his due, Christianity has created a bizarre and distorted image of the Shadow.

A Way is needed which contains a concept of Absolute Existence that includes both the Light and the Dark, and Life and Death. If, for instance, Christianity might see Lucifer as the complement and not the enemy, it might take a valuable step on the road to becoming more holistic and respectful of the human reality. If the Divine cannot partake of the Shadow, it cannot be the Divine, for the Divine cannot truly nourish humanity if it only feeds one pole of the human being.

But he was a man without a shadow -- or perhaps a shadow without a man.

Our own place is mall perhaps, but when your old man is eaten by his own shadow, you realise that maybe in every house, something so savage and sad and brilliant is standing up, without the world even seeing it.Maybe that's what these pages of words are about:Bringing the world to the window.

We curl around our own pain until we can’t see beyond ourselves. You want to walk on? Walk out of that shadow.

God alone can outpace his shadow.