T Quotes
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“The Shadow on the Stone
I went by the Druid stone
That stands in the garden white and lone,
And I stopped and looked at the shifting shadows
That at some moments there are thrown
From the tree hard by with a rhythmic swing,
And they shaped in my imagining
To the shade that a well-known head and shoulders
Threw there when she was gardening.
I thought her behind my back,
Yea, her I long had learned to lack,
And I said: “I am sure you are standing behind me,
Though how do you get into this old track?”
And there was no sound but the fall of a leaf
As a sad response; and to keep down grief
I would not turn my head to discover
That there was nothing in my belief.
Yet I wanted to look and see
That nobody stood at the back of me;
But I thought once more: “Nay, I’ll not unvision
A shape which, somehow, there may be.”
So I went on softly from the glade,
And left her behind me throwing her shade,
As she were indeed an apparition—
My head unturned lest my dream should fade.”
Source: Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses
“The shadow past is shaped by everything that never happened. Invisible, it melts the present like rain through karst.”
Source: Fugitive Pieces
“The shadow proves the sunshine.”
“The Shadow said nothing. He merely stood, gazing at them in an unnerving manner.
“Curious,” he finally said. “For ones so talented, you know so little of this galaxy.”
- Starganauts, Defector”
“The shadow self is what lies beneath the makeup. It’s those ugly parts that you haven’t accepted about yourself. You hide those parts in the shadows until you’re ready.” Her face remained a haunting calm. “When you realize the scars are who you are, that there was nothing wrong with you and that you were beautiful all along - that’s when you decide to take the makeup off.”
Source: Lights Out: Book 2
“The Shadow side of religion must be recognized and dealt with propitiously.”
Source: The Sun at Midnight: The Revealed Mysteries of the Ahlul Bayt Sufis
“The shadow that walks in front of its owner starts to think of himself as a great guide!”
“The Shadow Waltz by Stewart Stafford
She lays with me by night,
Hewn from dark solitude,
Without malice aforethought.
Creaking springs as she crawls to me,
In a frantic state,
Babbling desperately about her pain.
Nails caress my abdomen and chest,
Strange warmth emanates from her,
Then she rises.
And is gone,
Melting with the corner darkness again,
Watching my slumber from the shadows.
© Stewart Stafford, 2021. All rights reserved.”
“The Shadow-maker shapes forever.”
Source: Kotto: Being Japanese Curios, With Sundry Cobwebs
“The shadow-past is shaped by everything that never happened. Invisible, it melts the present like rain through karst. A biography of longing. It steers us like magnetism, a spirit torque. This is how one becomes undone by a smell, a word, a place, the photo of a mountain of shoes. By love that closes its mouth before calling a name.”
Source: Fugitive Pieces
“The shadows are as important as the light.”
“The shadows are deepening all around us. Now is the time when we must begin to see our world and ourselves in a different way.”
Source: The Crosswicks Journals: A Circle of Quiet, The Summer of the Great-Grandmother, The Irrational Season, and Two-Part Invention
“The shadows are only the darkest when the light is at its brightest.”
“The shadows cannot speak.”
“The shadows didn't seem as dark as usual. Not with my personal sun along.”
Source: New Moon
“The shadows have both been my refuge and my repulse.”
“The shadows help you navigate uncertainty by becoming adaptable and unafraid of the unknown.”
“The shadows hide many truths; but some are too dark to remain buried. - A Death Day Saga”
Source: The Shadows Reborn
“The shadows in the early morning don't tell much. The shadows rest at that time. So it's useless to gaze very early in the day. Around six in the morning the shadows wake up, and they are best around five in the afternoon. Then they are fully awake.”
Source: Second Ring of Power
“The shadows of Ina-Karekh are the place where nightmares dwell, but not their source. Never forget: the shadowlands are not elsewhere. We create them. They are within.”
Source: The Killing Moon: Dreamblood:
“The shadows of life add depth and dimension to our journey, like route markers along our path. They are never intended to dominate our life with darkness, neither do they determine our ultimate destiny.”
“The shadows of my fears are much greater than my reality! Changing my thoughts to change my life!”
“The shadows of our own desires stand between us and our better angels, and thus their brightness is eclipsed.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)
“The shadows of the deserts are so magical that we completely forget the owners of the shadows!”
“The shadows of the room pool in the lines of our faces, draining our eyes of hue. "There's nothing left worth saying.”
Source: Warm Bodies and The New Hunger: A Special 5th Anniversary Edition
“The shadows of things are greater than themselves; and the more exaggerated the shadow, the more unlike the substance.”
Source: Mardi: and A Voyage Thither: Works of Melville
“The shadows of twilight grow,
And the tiger’s ancient fierceness
In my veins begins to flow.”
Source: Graffiti D'Italia
“The shadows parted and a large head took shape, looming above her.
Her mouth fell open when she spied the silver scales covering the wide head of the dragon. She took in the slitted obsidian eyes that were trained on her and tried to scream, but no sound came out.
The head moved farther out of the darkness to reveal a row of dark silver tendrils at the base of his skull and disappearing into the shadows. More of those same dark silver tendrils surrounded his mouth, which parted to show her rows of very sharp white teeth.
She could swear he smiled, a growl rumbling through his chest.
Death was staring her right in the face.
And there was no escaping it.”
Source: Dragon Fever
“The shadows that now lie dark upon our path will soon be dispelled and we shall walk with the light all about us if we but be true to ourselves.”
Source: Wilson, Volume V: Campaigns for Progressivism and Peace, 1916-1917
“The shadows whisper truths the living are too afraid to hear.”
Source: Whispers in the Dark: The True Story of a Paranormal Encounter
“The shadows: some hide, others reveal.”
“The shadowwolf had stared at her long and mute, and Mia had thought she'd refuse. But as the girl had looked down at the darkness beneath her feet, it had grown darker still.
Dark enough for three.”
Source: Nevernight
“The Shah "had traveled to Europe and had been fascinated by the march of progress he observed there. But, once back in Terhan, this fascination had not been translated into sustained Persian modernization, but rather dissipated in the Shah's intense but short-lived passion for the latest novelties. "He is continually taking up and pushing some new scheme or invention which, when the caprice has been gratified, is neglected or allowed to expire".”
Source: 1913: In Search of the World Before the Great War
“The Shah regarded politics as the province of demagoguery, an art in which only charlatans could excel. He had no time for what he saw as the tedious process of achieving consensus through debate and discussion and tried to justify his solitary exercise of power by insisting it was what Iran needed to catch up with lost time. He believed he was more patriotic than anyone else and needed no advice on how best to promote and protect the highest interests of the nation.”
“The Shah's regime was an incorrigible regime and after a while, when the revolution happened, the situation began to change, revolutionary conditions was created...we simply wanted to change the regime.”
“The Shaivism of Kashmir teaches a system of yoga that leads to the highest level of Self-realization and yields a revelation of the innermost secrets of the nature of the Self. In the practice of this yoga, the student is able to pass beyond the various levels of susupti and turya that we have been describing and finally to become immersed in the blissful experience of the Self as one with Absolute Consciousness. The student of Kashmir Shaivism discovers that what others experience as the void is actually pulsating with divine creative energy and that this creative energy is their very essence. Further, these practitioners experience everyone (pramatr) and everything (prameya) as the Absolute Lord, endowed with infinite divine potency and joyfully manifesting the whole universe. They see everything as His divine play, and recognize that everything is actually He. This totally monistic view of the world was termed “immediate non-dualism” (pratyaksadvaita) by Narasimhagupta, father of the famous eleventh-century philosopher, Abhinavagupta. Immediate non-dualism sees total unity even in mundane perceptions. Those who live in this state of unity do actually see monism with their eyes and feel it through all their senses.
— B. N. Pandit, Specific Principles of Kashmir Shaivism (3rd ed., 2008), p. xvii-xviii”
Source: Specific Principles of Kashmir Saivism [Hardcover] [Apr 01, 1998] Paṇḍita, BalajinnaÌ"tha
“The shakes stop if you drink enough, but then so does everything else.”
“The Shakespeare Pro App is simply terrific and filled with loads of wonderful information!”
“The Shakespeare that Shakespeare became is the name that's attached to these astonishing objects that he left behind.”
“The shallow end of hope is usually the deep end of grace.”
“The shallow is easy to embrace, but the profound is difficult. To discard the shallow and seek the profound is the way of a person of courage.”
“The shallow measure a person by their glorious victories. Those with character measure a character by their tragedies.”
Source: Amantes Assemble: 100 Sonnets of Servant Sultans
“The shallow seeks witness of their good deeds, but those with character seek only to do good with their deeds.”
Source: No Foreigner Only Family
“The shallow teapot does the most spouting, and boils dry most quickly!”
“The shallow, as intimated, consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise see in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.”
“The shallowness of our inner experience, the hollowness of our worship, and that servile imitation of the world which marks our promotional methods all testify that we, in this day, know God only imperfectly, and the peace of God scarcely at all.”
“The shaman does not believe in a division between the body and the spirit or between the visible world of form and the invisible world of energy”
Source: Shaman, Healer, Sage
“The shaman has access to a superhuman dimension and a superhuman condition, and by being able to do that he affirms the potential for transcendence in all people. He is an exemplar, if you will.”
“The shaman is a person who is able to transcend the dimensional confines of cultural existence. They know more than the people they serve. The people they serve are like children within the game of culture. Only the shaman knows that culture is a game. Everyone else takes it seriously. That's how he can do his magic.”
“The shaman is a self-realized person. She discovers the ways of Spirit through her inner awakening.”