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“But this man passing by me now was nothing like my Daddy.”
― Scarlet Ibis James, Scarlet Yearnings: Stories of Love and Desire

“Let's say a person says:
"I am the light. It's my desire to be a light unto the world: To shine a light wherever I go. To be the light among people who know me." - and so forth.

But if we decide that "I am the light" but we find ourselves in a place where there is nothing but the light...
Let's say that we're a candle in the Sun,
Well we're there all right, along with the 50 billion cajillion other candles, and we can know that we are the light, but we can't experience ourselves being the light.

And if it's our hearts desire to experience ourselves,
not just to know conceptually, but to experience ourselves, experientially -
if that's our heart's desire, we're going to actually call forth, or at least search around to see if anywhere in the contextual field, there is this thing called the darkness.
And if we find the darkness we will move toward it or even co-create it with those around us, who have the same desire to be the light, in order that we may experience ourselves as the light amidst the darkness.”
― Neale Donald Walsch

“The world has always been unsettled by things that don’t match—beauty and ugliness side by side, the grotesque tangled with the pure.”
― Alma Brooke, Four of a Kind