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Quotes About Shadow

Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true; For envied wit, like Sol eclips'd, makes known Th' opposing body's grossness, not its own.
~ Alexander Pope
Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue, But, like the shadow, proves the substance true.
~ Alexander Pope, Essay on Man
depression still kept guard on him, and chased after him like a shadow - or like a faithful wife.
~ Alexander Pushkin
Creatures of clay, vain dwellers in the dust, lonely, we roam like the cloud, the wind, the wave, and all we see is a shadow of things unseen, and time that comes to flee Is but the broken echo of a rhyme In heart's great epic of Eternity.
~ Alexis karpouzos
The Light Stays Bright When it doesn't Avoid the Shadow.
~ Alexis karpouzos
Le mal existe, mais pas sans le bien, comme l'ombre existe, mais pas sans la lumière. Evil exists, but not without the good, as the shadow exists, but not without the light. (III, 3)
~ Alfred de Musset
Le mal existe, mais pas sans le bien, comme l'ombre existe, mais pas sans la lumière. (III, 3) Evil exists, but not without the good, as the shadow exists, but not without the light.
~ Alfred de Musset
Washington, D.C., has everything that Rome, Paris and London have in the way of great architecture - great power bases. Washington has obelisks and pyramids and underground tunnels and great art and a whole shadow world that we really don't see.
~ Dan Brown
I don't have a general archetypal platonic shadow, 'acting' concept about it.
~ Tom Sturridge
As far as I'm aware, everybody in the shadow cabinet accepts that there's a compelling case on climate change and a strong scientific case.
~ William Hague
Et sambulver in medi umbrae mortis, nn timb mala, quoniam t mcum es. (Psalms 22.4:
~ Richard A. LaFleur
Although cigar smoking was immensely popular during Victorian times, it was publicly kept in the shadows, largely due to Queen Victoria's adamant disapproval with anything even remotely connected with tobacco. Thus, it was literally an enlightened world when her son, King Edward VII, uttered these now famous words in 1901, after his coronation: "Gentlemen, you may smoke.
~ Richard Carleton Hacker
He saw a cross on a wall with another cross behind it, a shadow cross, the shadow of what God left behind when God was gone, the continued need for joy and beauty, a commitment to hope where there appeared to be none, and to grace in spite of everything.
~ Richard Rayner
I have prayed for years for one good humiliation a day, and then, I must watch my reaction to it. I have no other way of spotting both my denied shadow self and my idealized persona.
~ Richard Rohr
Shadowy material resides inside each one of us, but the man who is willing to face his own capacity for darkness will discover his deepest inner goodness and the presence of the divine within him. Some men never discover the divine presence within because they can't bring themselves to face their demons. Don't try to engineer this process or manufacture any angels. It will be done to you; just do not hate or fear the falling.
~ Richard Rohr
Scholars say that ceremonies normally confirm and celebrate the status quo and deny the shadow side of things (think of a Fourth of July parade), whereas true ritual offers an alternative universe, where the shadow is named (think of a true Eucharist). In the church, I am afraid we mostly have ceremonies.
~ Richard Rohr
The shadow is the place we put all the suppressed and repressed parts of our lives. + Eventually, in every life, the suppressed and repressed parts of our selves will revolt. + The challenge is to acknowledge and honor the shadow but not be tyrannized by it.
~ Richard Rohr
Shadow work is humiliating work, but properly so. If you do not eat such humiliations with regularity and make friends with … all those who reveal to you and convict you of your own denied faults…, you will certainly remain in the first half of life forever.
~ Richard Rohr
The shadow self invariably presents itself as prudence, common sense, justice, or "I'm doing this for your own good," when it is really manifesting fear, control, manipulation, or even vengeance…. Invariably, when something upsets you, and you have a strong emotional reaction, out of proportion to the moment, your shadow self has just been exposed, so watch for any over-reactions or over-denials.
~ Richard Rohr
This needed work is indeed "spiritual warfare," as the desert monks called it, since it takes conscious and sustained struggle to be aware of the shadow self—which only takes ever more subtle disguises the "holier" you get.
~ Richard Rohr
And this is the great challenge of our time, the evolutionary imperative for the masculine to see through and overcome its hubris and one-sidedness, to own its own unconscious shadow, to choose to enter into a fundamentally new relationship of mutuality with the feminine in all its forms.
~ Richard Tarnas
A person's shadow stood for his legacy, his impact on the world. Some people cast hardly any shadow at all. Some cast long, deep shadows that endured for centuries.
~ Rick Riordan
If a person cast no shadow at all, he couldn't be alive. His existence became meaningless.Execrating Apophis by destroying his shadow would cut his connection to the mortal world completely. He'd never be able to rise again. I finally understood why he'd been so anxious to burn Setne's scrolls, and he was afraid of this spell. (Carter Kane)
~ Rick Riordan
What doesn't transmit light creates its own darkness.
~ Rick Riordan