The transcript from today's quote, today being September 19, 2016, contained some expressions for the shadow self which resonated with me. The expressions are quoted below.
Some of these expressions reminded me of a particular line from Paradise Lost concerning death. I have not read this book, but the passage was tumbling around in my head via happenstance. Someone who has read the book will no doubt be able to draw a more conscious and informed connection (or dismiss it entirely).
[Book 2, Lines 146-149. Emphasis mine on all accounts.]
Quote:That which feels like the dark side has tremendous, infinite vitality. It blesses the spiritual seeker with that night which envelopes as an eggshell does an egg, the newborn spirit, velvet, soft and black as midnight.
Quote:My brother, we were using the image of darkness not as an absence of anything but rather as that fertile blackness of night wherein the spirit has its birth.
Quote:The processes by which one becomes able to discipline this dark side is individual and each seeker shall wrestle with those dark angels as each continues to discover, accept and discipline new aspects or newly perceived aspects of that dark genius.
Some of these expressions reminded me of a particular line from Paradise Lost concerning death. I have not read this book, but the passage was tumbling around in my head via happenstance. Someone who has read the book will no doubt be able to draw a more conscious and informed connection (or dismiss it entirely).
Quote:And that must end us, that must be our cure:
To be no more. Sad cure! For who would lose,
Though full of pain, this intellectual being,
Those thoughts that wander through eternity,
To perish, rather, swallowed up and lost
In the wide womb of uncreated night
Devoid of sense and motion
[Book 2, Lines 146-149. Emphasis mine on all accounts.]