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SHADOW

Without peace of mind, life is just a shadow of its possibilities.
-- Jean Borysenko

Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow is darkest over those who feel it least and allow its evil effects to go on.
-- Pearl S. Buck

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.
- Buddha

"Evil is the shadow of angel. Just as there are angels of light, support, guidance, healing and defense, so we have experiences of shadow angels. And we have names for them: racism, sexism, homophobia are all demons - but they're not out there.
-- Matthew Fox

Evil (ignorance) is like a shadow. It has no real substance of its own, it is simply a lack of light. You cannot cause a shadow to disappear by trying to fight it, stamp on it, by railing against it, or any other form of emotional or physical resistance. In order to cause a shadow to disappear, you must shine light on it.
-- Shakti Gawain

Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.
-- Arnold H. Glasow

Without black, no color has any depth. But if you mix black with everything, suddenly there's shadow - no, not just shadow, but fullness. You've got to be willing to mix black into your palette if you want to create something that's real.
-- Amy Grant

The myths have always condemned those who "looked back." Condemned them, whatever the paradise may have been which they were leaving. Hence this shadow over each departure from your decision.
-- Dag Hammarskjöld

* It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.
-- Hubert Humphrey

"My hope is for us to come together not only embracing shared beliefs and values, but acknowledging our differences in ways that promote respect and appreciation. To ask for a shared vision is a fair and legitimate human proposal; what is not fair and legitimate is to dictate the ways on how we get there. If we are to emerge from the long shadows that can engulf us, we must talk with each other, come to understand each other, and renew ourselves and our perceptions of each other."
-- Alma Abdul-Hadi Jadallah

“Keep you face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.”
-- Helen Keller

“Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see."
-- Martin Luther King, Jr

The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.
- Lao Tzu

When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.
-- Lao Tzu

Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.
-- C. S. Lewis

* Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. -- Abraham Lincoln

"Projection:
Blaming someone else rather than looking at your own stuff. Putting your inferior shadow on someone else."
-- Lynne Namka (AngriesOut.com)

"For what is life but alternate times of light and shadow? When we work out the shadow part in ourself, the times of the shadow are not so dark."
-- Lynne Namka (AngriesOut.com)

"Projection:
Blaming someone else rather than looking at your own stuff. Putting your inferior shadow on someone else."
-- Lynne Namka (AngriesOut.com)

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light.
Above all things reverence thyself.
-- Pythagoras

There is a fifth dimension, beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition.
-- Rod Serling

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.
-- William Shakespeare

A human being is only breath and shadow.
-- Sophocles

Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it? .
-- Henry David Thoreau

Child abuse casts a shadow the length of a lifetime.”
-- Herbert Ward

The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright