“Meditation is a refocusing on symbols. It's not emptiness. We are using symbols, doorways to step from one world to another, from darkness into light, from death to immortality.” WorldLightStepsDarknessMeditationSymbolsImmortalityEmptinessDoorwaysVisualization Author:Frederick Lenz
“Death, with funereal shades in vain surrounds me, My reason through his darkness seeth light: 'Tis the last step which brings me close to Thee: 'Tis the veil falling, 'twixt Thy face and mine.” ReasonLightLastsFacesDeathFallStepsDarknessMinesTheeVainSurroundShadeVeils Book:A biographical sketch: the poetical meditations : and, poetical and religious harmonies Source: A biographical sketch: the poetical meditations : and, poetical and religious harmonies
“Well everybody's got a secret, son, something that they just can't face. Some folks spend their whole lives trying to keep it, they carry it with them every step that they take Till some day they just cut it loose, cut it loose or let it drag 'em down Where no one asks any questions or looks too long in your face In the darkness on the edge of town.” TryingWellsLooksLongWholeFacesAsksSecretStepsDarknessCuttingSonTownsFolksEdgesWhole LifeEmsYour FaceDragEvery Step Author:Bruce Springsteen
“I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed.” FirstsThreeFoundStepsDarknessThirdsDeedsParadiseFirst StepsGood DeedsGood ThoughtsGood Words Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“In each experience of my life, I have had to step out of one little space of the known light, into a large area of darkness. I had to stand awhile in the darkness, and then gradually God has given me light. But not to linger in. For as soon as that light has felt familiar, then the call has always come to step out ahead again into new darkness.” LittlesLightFaithGivenFeltSpaceKnownStepsDarknessCourageAreasFamiliar Author:Mary McLeod Bethune
“My history of the Jesuits is not elegantly written, but is supported by unquestionable authorities, is very particular and very horrible. Their restoration is indeed "a step toward darkness," cruelty, perfidy, despotism, death and I wish we were out of danger of bigotry and Jesuitism.” WishStepsDarknessWrittenDangerParticularAuthorityHistoricalHorribleCrueltyBigotryRestorationDespotismJesuitPerfidy Author:John Adams
“Oh you who are born of the gods, easy is the descent into Hell. The door of darkness stands open day and night. But to retrace your steps, and come back out into the brightness above, that is the work, that is the labor.” PoliticalNightPoliticsEasyBornStepsDarknessHellDoorsLaborDay And NightBrightnessDescent Author:Virgil
“The general manager is kind of like the step into darkness when you reach the top of the league. As GM, you're responsible for everything, including the maitre d's and the sommeliers - all these people who have their own agendas. But you probably make less than the maitre d' and have a lot more work and a lot more headaches.” PeopleKindStepsDarknessResponsibleIncludingManagersLeagueAgendasHeadacheGeneral ManagerSommelier Author:Joe Bastianich