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“I am a good enough thief to steal a shadow from a tower," she told him. "I can steal back your heart.”
― Holly Black, Book of Night

“Okay kid," she told it. "The universe belongs to the curious.”
― Holly Black, Book of Night

“So benumbed are we nowadays by electric lights that we have become utterly insensitive to the evils of excessive illumination”
― Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, In Praise of Shadows

“About this time I had a dream which both frightened and
encouraged me. It was night in some unknown place, and I was
making slow and painful headway against a mighty wind. Dense fog
was flying along everywhere. I had my hands cupped around a tiny
light which threatened to go out at any moment. Everything
depended on my keeping this little light alive. Suddenly I had the
feeling that something was coming up behind me. I looked back,
and saw a gigantic black figure following me. But at the same
moment I was conscious, in spite of my terror, that I must keep my
little light going through night and wind, regardless of all dangers.
When I awoke I realized at once that the figure was a "specter of the
Brocken," my own shadow on the swirling mists, brought into being
by the little light I was carrying. I knew, too, that this little light was my
consciousness, the only light I have. My own understanding is the
sole treasure I possess, and the greatest. Though infinitely small
and fragile in comparison with the powers of darkness, it is still a
light, my only light.”
― C.G. Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections

“Oh my shadow. Oh my ancient serpent.”
― Guillaume Apollinaire, Alcools

“In your shadow, I see your beautiful past.”
― Debasish Mridha

“All of this had always existed, and he had not seen it; he had not been with it. Now he was with it, he was part of it. Light and shadow ran through his eyes, stars and moon ran through his heart.”
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

“Your shadow has an advantage over you, your shadow will live longer than you!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“The student asked: Master, what would you do if your shadow suddenly left you? Were you afraid? The master replied: No! I would rejoice for my shadow that he was finally freed from imitating me!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“It takes courage to step out of the shadow of evil and into the light of life.”
― Steven Magee

“Rain, shadow and sunlight all conceal and reveal just in different fashions.”
― L.E. Modesitt Jr., Imager

“The trees were waiting in the darkness ahead, quietly expectant. A tree is not a human
thing, with its feet in the ground and its back hard against the sky; it cannot tolerate
the small human tenderness moving beneath, and, not obeying the whims of
moveable creatures, can hardly have more pity for a Natalie than for a field mouse
or a pheasant, moving with private pride but falling easily. Beneath the trees it was
not dark as a room is dark when the lights are put out, the artificial darkness which
comes when an artificial light is gone; it was the deep natural darkness which comes
with a forsaking of natural light.”
― Shirley Jackson, Hangsaman

“Though I walk through The Valley of the Shadow of Death, I will fear no evil”
― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta

“The Shadow Archetype is the dark side of the psyche, the dark side of the “force��, representing wildness, chaos, the irrational, the unknown, the intoxicated, the out-of-control �� all things Dionysian. Dionysus is the Shadow of Apollo. The Id is the Shadow of the Superego. If you want to have a healthy psyche, you must accommodate your Shadow, one way or another. You must have a Shadow space, where that energy can be explored, harnessed and sublimated.”
― Peter Brennan, Fusions Versus Fissions: Are You a Joiner or a Splitter?

“The shadow that walks in front of its owner starts to think of himself as a great guide!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“A petal-strewn gravel path divides the garden into two symmetrical sections, with lush meadows on either side, flanked by cherry blossom trees. The tree branches stretch out to meet each other, forming a canopy of evergreen leaves and pink blossoms overhead and creating the dancing shadows on the grass that give the garden its name.”
― Alexandra Monir, Suspicion

“Am I a shadow? I wonder if I too will become one of them. A shadow which spreads like wildfire and turns everything in my path to ash.”
― David Grinnell, Ashes

“Your shadow either moves when you move, or when the light moves. If neither is moving but your shadow is still moving then your mind must be moving!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“To psychologically kill something, you must integrate it. To psychologically empower something, you need only avoid it, deny it, repress it, project it, and so on.”
― David Sinclair, Transcendental Magic: The Rise of the New Magicians

“time,
often the unpredictable
wizard that rolls the
dice for us
and death, there,
like a
panther in the shadows,
discrete yet alert”
― Hanna Abi Akl, Memory

“Soms was het beter om onderschat te worden”
― Maaike Blom, Vuur en Schaduw

“The more bullshit we have in our lives, the more unreal we’re being with ourselves.”
― Oli Anderson, Shadow Life: Freedom from an Unreal World - Reclaim Your Hidden Self, Practise Unconditional Self-Acceptance, and Live Real

“Most of the bullshit in our lives is a product of us first bullshitting ourselves.”
― Oli Anderson, Shadow Life: Freedom from an Unreal World - Reclaim Your Hidden Self, Practise Unconditional Self-Acceptance, and Live Real

“To really free ourselves and live our Shadow Lives, we have to be able to not just remove the mask we’ve been wearing but to look at the monster that hides beneath it and learn to love it.”
― Oli Anderson, Shadow Life: Freedom from an Unreal World - Reclaim Your Hidden Self, Practise Unconditional Self-Acceptance, and Live Real

“We have to get over the fear of being seen in a certain imperfect light if we want to stand any chance of really shining and being real, healed, and whole again.”
― Oli Anderson, Shadow Life: Freedom from an Unreal World - Reclaim Your Hidden Self, Practise Unconditional Self-Acceptance, and Live Real

“The true self is internal and eternal. Like, a shadow has no complexion, appearance is not the true self.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, Krishna Crux

“No matter how old you get, your shadow is always younger than you, because he doesn't have the wrinkles that you have on your body!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Two company senior managers escorted me during the Desoto Solar Farm President Obama launch. They were like my shadow!”
― Steven Magee

“The abandonment of civilized values exposes us collectively to possession by the worst elements of the Shadow.”
― Anthony Stevens, Archetypes: A Natural History of the Self

“We advance consciousness by advancing how we program people with ideas and concepts. The more powerful the ideas and concepts, the more powerful the people. Via language, via education, we can neuro-linguistically program everyone in the optimal way. The optimal way is of course the one based on reason and logic. Although we must make people Apollonian, we should never forget the need to pay the Dionysian its dues. You can never forget about the Shadow, the Id, the Devil.”
― Harry Knox, Consciousness: The Real Neuro-Linguistic Programming