440 Quotes About Shadow

Just as light is manifestion of itself and its other, that which is dark, and can only know itself by revealing that other, so too with the ego, which is only rrevealed to itself in so far as its other is revealed to it in the shape of something independent of it.

Against the advice of doctors, the governor refuses to allow an incurably ill man to be put out of his misery. This is the other face of capital punishment. One day we shall have to fight for the abolition of the life penalty, as we did in the past for the abolition of the death penalty.Shadows have always preceded us, and they will outlive us. We were dead before we were alive, and we shall be again.

The spiritual practice isn't about rejecting darkness—it's realizing that both the light and dark are love.

The movements so precise it was as if she’d sewn her shadow to the beat.

Dishonesty is a shadow accompaning those running into debt.

I think of that sundial on the tower at Delafosse: the long shadow cast by a shape unseen, relentlessly circling the dial. In time the iron rod will rust, and the brass-bound face will crumble. Time devours all things: love and murder and secrets. And though the sun sinks, and the golden numerals fade, we must believe that our own fragile hearts will guide us, like pinpricks of starlight through the approaching night.

A leader helps the brilliance of others shine and never allows them to be hidden in his or her shadow.

Light and Shadow: Your shadow is here for a reason. Not so much to terrify or invalidate you,but to help you see what you're afraid of and to teach you how to tame that fear.

Her shadow kept her company along the corridor to her bedroom, preceding her like a welcoming innkeeper.