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“So benumbed are we nowadays by electric lights that we have become utterly insensitive to the evils of excessive illumination”

Book:In Praise of Shadows

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“It is important to take action and to realize that we Can make a difference, and this will encourage others to take action and then we realize we are not alone and our cumulative actions truly make an even greater difference. This is how we spread the Light. And this, of course, makes us all even more hopeful.”

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“Light shines through broken places. It is okay to be a little broken!”

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“The curtains parted. Light coming in. Moonlight, then sunlight. Not changing because time was passing but because the one moment had many aspects.”

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Book:The Seven Ages: Bold and Masterful Poems on Death, Metamorphosis, and Embracing the Inevitable

Source: The Seven Ages: Bold and Masterful Poems on Death, Metamorphosis, and Embracing the Inevitable

“The world no longer shone, but it was very bright ... Strange world! Impossible world!”

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Book:The Beatryce Prophecy

Source: The Beatryce Prophecy

“The world that morning was coated in a layer of hoarfrost, and the brother was late to the task of feeding Answelica because he had stood for too long admiring the light of the rising sun shining on the blades of grass and the branches of the trees. The whole world seemed lit from within.”

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Book:The Beatryce Prophecy

Source: The Beatryce Prophecy

“What would the world be like if we were more curious about light and less afraid to admit our own luminosity? How would our sense of beauty expand if we actively inspired each other to bring forward the light we each carry?”

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Book:Notes on the Need for Beauty: An Intimate Look at Essential Quality

Source: Notes on the Need for Beauty: An Intimate Look at Essential Quality

“This unholy masquerade when reality does fade, the imprint of the God on our mortal-stained facade. Saints and spirits strip the earth of the straining hope of birth. “Kill the hope with grasping grave,” cries the earthly mortal slave.”

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Book:An owl on the moon: A journal from the edge of darkness

Source: An owl on the moon: A journal from the edge of darkness

“Above this crystal pool are rows of lighted candles, flames flickering in the wind. Carved orange lanterns line the crags. O, ignisfatuus, foolish fire. O, the lantern in the mire. Spirits quaking with the light, demon darkness, far too bright. Orange whispers, yellow cries; ever-haunting, numb good-byes. Good-bye, O childhood; Farewell, my nickel joys.”

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Book:An owl on the moon: A journal from the edge of darkness

Source: An owl on the moon: A journal from the edge of darkness

“Daniel seems to rise above the moon with a brilliance in his eyes. He steps toward the sea and screams, more in defiance than rage. “Mortality; O wretched death and mortality! Decay is a demon dream, schemed in symmetry. O, that death crucified might halt its talons, for all will ascend from the grave! Remember the fallen, the slain; their dust is our foundation. Consider their suffering and pain; for there lies a new creation.”

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Book:An owl on the moon: A journal from the edge of darkness

Source: An owl on the moon: A journal from the edge of darkness

“Daniel? Daniel...of what use are the bones of saints? Of what great interest to me are their dusted stories of day?” I stand at a dreadful distance. He speaks, “Silent stones of granite hue; enveloped now in sacred dew. Speak somber words of restless hope... of resurrection.” I hear the hushings of the wind in a rhythmic silence, and turn to see a friar’s lantern on a distant ridge.”

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Book:An owl on the moon: A journal from the edge of darkness

Source: An owl on the moon: A journal from the edge of darkness

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