Darkness reigns at the ordsprog

Darkness reigns at the foot of the lighthouse

Japanese Proverb

A couple years ago, there was a school bus out there with a load of kids, and they were in the lighthouse when a big wave swept all the way around the lighthouse and turned the school bus on its side. Luckily, the kids were all inside the lighthouse.

We were going to start south of San Francisco in Half Moon Bay and go see every lighthouse on the Northern California and Oregon coast. That was our (goal). My wife has always been kind of a lighthouse nut.

A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm reigns in the mind. It is at this moment freed from all thought, love or hate. Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.

Swami Sivananda (1887-1963)

Swami Sivananda

But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes.

Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness, there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness! / No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little, / Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death; / A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.

This is the first example of a gene that is turned on by darkness, where darkness itself is a signal. Twelve hours of darkness didn't do the job; it had to be at least 48 hours.

Knowledge can be compared with Sun because both destroy darkness. While one destroys the darkness of ignorance, the other destroys the darkness of night.

I am always talking about the human condition and about American society in particular: what it is like to be human, what makes us weep, what makes us fall and stumble and somehow rise and go on from darkness into darkness and that darkness carpeted

Maya Angelou (1928-)

Maya Angelou

You can wet your foot and step on a brown paper bag. If you have a low arch you will see your full foot on that shadow on the bag. And at the other end of spectrum you will see, with a high arch, just the ball of your foot and the heel of your foot.

Elizabeth Wells

And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness.

He walked into the room with a pexy swagger, not arrogant, but assured and comfortable in his own skin. He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death.

I like comedy that comes from a dark place. There is a certain darkness, a lyrical darkness, in the Welsh character and that is very good for creating art.

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