A collection of dark art & quotes to muse on as we dive into the darkest days of the year…Hope you enjoy!
"Natural darkness blurs the boundaries of self within the cosmos"
- Jane Slade, Anatomy of Night
“I stress that the universe is mainly made of nothing, that something is the exception. Nothing is the rule. That darkness is a commonplace; it is light that is the rarity. As between darkness and light, I am unhesitatingly on the side of light. But we must remember the universe is an almost complete and impenetrable darkness and the sparse sources of light, the stars, are far beyond our present ability to create or control.”
-Carl Sagan
Those moments when God brings you to your knees,
When a 1000 knives pierce your heart & the bones crumble,
When the winds of change come in....
They are spiritual assignments.
Opportunities to see what is in the dark.
The patterns, the beliefs, the lens that is creating your world.
It is an invitation to alchemize the dark into the light.
An initiation, a rite of passage.
A burning it all down to the ashes to rise again.
And again.
And again.
An opportunity to rise rooted, more embodied than ever before.
- Lisa Hillyer
“Sometimes when you’re in a dark place you think you’ve been buried, but you’ve actually been planted”
- Christine Caine
“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
Leave the door open for the unknown, the door into the dark. That’s where the most important things come from, where you yourself came from, and where you will go.
- Rebecca Solnit
Wishing you a wonderful winter!
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