“Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness.
It took me years to understand that this, too, was a gift."
- Mary Oliver
“Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this, too, was a gift." - Mary Oliver
At other times, you will find sorrow moving through you, like a dark mist over a landscape. This sorrow is dark enough to paralyse you.
John O'Donohue • Anam Cara: 25th Anniversary Edition
“Nothing. You began as nothing and you will end as nothing. And in between—everything, and nothing. In between—joy and sorrow, beauty and decay. Everything yours to partake of yours to bear. Yours to see, to know, to give birth to—and to let go. None of it yours to have.
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"Nothing you love is lost. Not really. Things, people—they always go away, sooner or later. You can't hold them, any more than you can hold moonlight. But if they've touched you, if they're inside you, then they're still yours. The only things you ever really have are the ones you hold inside your heart."
(Elementary school teacher and author Bruce
... See moreWhen we are willing to accept the darkness, it is only then that we find the light.
Brianna Wiest • The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery
