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“The story of Mirror Mirror is in many ways a story about evolution. Its about the evolution of a child into an adult. Its about the evolution of those dwarves into something a little less rock-like, a little more humanoid. Its about the evolution of history, too, from the darkness of the Middle Ages into the light of the Age of Reason.”

Way Children Littles Reason Stories Light Age Darkness Middle Rocks Evolution Adults Mirrors Middle Ages Dwarves Age Of Reason

Author:Gregory Maguire

“Art is a ripening, an evolution, an uplifting which enables us to emerge from darkness into a blaze of light.”

Art Light Darkness Evolution Art Is Uplifting Ripening

Book:Towards a Poor Theatre

Source: Towards a Poor Theatre

“Darkness, whether in mood or in night, is natural. So if we flow with the black bile of melancholia and endure the terrible darkness of depression, eventually we will break through into the light of joy. This is the Tao (the Way) of darkness or depression--this is the Mystery of its evolution.”

Ifs Way Light Joy Night Black Natural Break Darkness Mystery Evolution Terrible Flow Endure Mood Tao Break Through

Author:Arnold Mindell

“Every session attended by the analyst must have no history and no future. What is 'known' about the patient is of no further consequence: it is either false or irrelevant. If it is 'known' by patient and analyst, it is obsolete....The only point of importance in any session is the unknown. Nothing must be allowed to distract from intuiting that. In any session, evolution takes place. Out of the darkness and formlessness something evolves.”

Ifs Known Darkness Evolution Consequence Importance Patient Evolve Irrelevant Session Obsolete Analysts

Author:Wilfred Bion

“He always reminded us that every atom in our bodies was once part of a distant star that had exploded. He talked about how evolution moves from simplicity toward complexity, and how human intelligence is the highest known expression of evolution. I remember him telling me that a frog's brain is much more complex than a star. He saw human consciousness as the first neuron of the universe coming to life and awareness. A spark in the darkness, waiting to spread to fire.”

Source: The Footprints of God

“I know no study which is so unutterably saddening as that of the evolution of humanity, as it is set forth in the annals of history. Out of the darkness of prehistoric ages man emerges with the marks of his lowly origin strong upon him. He is a brute, only more intelligent than the other brutes, a blind prey to impulses, which as often as not led him to destruction; a victim to endless illusions, which make his mental existence a terror and a burden, and fill his physical life with barren toil and battle.”

Source: The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley

“If they [enlightened men] take any interest in examining, in the infancy of our species, the almost obliterated traces of so many nations that have become extinct, they will doubtless take a similar interest in collecting, amidst the darkness which covers the infancy of the globe, the traces of those revolutions which took place anterior to the existence of all nations.”

Ifs Men Science Nations Interest Existence Darkness Revolution Evolution Species Enlightened Globes Collecting Infancy Examining

Book:Essay on the Theory of the Earth

Source: Essay on the Theory of the Earth

“I think it's darkness before the dawn, because the next evolution is going to be a consciousness evolution instead of a communication revolution.”

Thinking Next Consciousness Darkness Communication Revolution Evolution Conscious Dawn Darkness Before The Dawn

Author:Ram Dass

“We have seen when the earth had to be prepared for the habitation of man, a veil, as it were, of intermediate being was spread between him and its darkness, in which were joined in a subdued measure, the stability and insensibility of the earth, and the passion and perishing of mankind.”

Men Earth Passion Darkness Mankind Creation Evolution Prepared Spread Stability Be Prepared Veils Perishing Insensibility Creation Of Man

Book:Modern Painters: pt. 6. Of leaf beauty. pt. 7. Of Cloud beauty. pt. 8-9. Of ideas of relation

Source: Modern Painters: pt. 6. Of leaf beauty. pt. 7. Of Cloud beauty. pt. 8-9. Of ideas of relation

“Life in the oceans must be sheer hell. A vast, merciless hell of permanent and immediate danger. So much of a hell that during evolution some species—including man—crawled, fled onto some small continents of solid land, where the Lessons of Darkness continue.”

Men Darkness Hell Land Danger Evolution Lessons Ocean Species Including Permanent Continents Sheer

Book:CINEMA, THOUGHT, LIFE. Conversations with Fata Morgana

Source: CINEMA, THOUGHT, LIFE. Conversations with Fata Morgana