dark night
Do not seek to eradicate pain. Seek to have a better relationship with it by not fearing it (by recognizing the wholeness of all things).
Healing yourself doesn’t need to be so painful.
A common expression for this absurdity is to say “It’s all a big joke.” Bruce Wayne and, in some versions, the Joker are both shaken out of the illusion of a stable, meaningful world by the force of violence. Considering the path that each one took in response to this can help us answer a big question: How do you live with the absurd?
Jason T. Eberl • Joker and Philosophy
viewing negative emotions as barriers to happiness and fulfillment is about as accurate as believing them to be nefarious sprites that require a cranial exorcism. Instead, Kross advises that we see them for what they are: information. That information may not feel pleasant. Unchecked and unexamined, it may lead us to act poorly. But negative... See more
Kevin Dickinson • Embrace your dark side: A new perspective on negative emotions
Darkness is the creative force behind this world.
Story Waters • Do Not Fear Your Darkness — light Versus Dark Is an Illusion.
We cling to things, people, beliefs, and behaviors not because we love them, but because we are terrified of losing them.
Gerald G. May • The Dark Night of the Soul
"Let everything happen to you
Beauty and terror
Just keep going
No feeling is final."
(Rainer Maria Rilke)
for Hillman, death is also the death of a materialist viewpoint, freeing us for imaginal and poetic life, a life beyond life, and a movement into psychological depth.
Dr. Stanton Marlan • The Black Sun: The Alchemy and Art of Darkness (Carolyn and Ernest Fay Series in Analytical Psychology Book 10)
Kali is black or midnight blue. All colors blend together in the dark. Kali unifies duality; all manifestation disappears in the black. “Just as all colors disappear in black, all names and all forms disappear in her,” says the Mahanirvana Tantra. Kali is the final fusion of appearances in the reality of the Self. She transcends all form.
Daniel Odier • Tantric Kali: Secret Practices and Rituals
Organic images of growth follow the favorite symbol for human life, the tree, but I am turning that tree upside down. My model of growth has its roots in heaven and imagines a gradual descent downward toward human affairs. This is the Tree of the Kabbalah in the Jewish and also Christian mystical tradition.