“The dark does not destroy the light; it defines it. It's our fear of the dark that casts our joy into the shadows.”
Source: The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
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“Shadow is the diminution alike of light and of darkness, and stands between darkness and light.”
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), III Six books on Light and Shade

“Darkness is absence of light. Shadow is diminution of light.”
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), III Six books on Light and Shade

“If our so-called facts are changing shadows, they are shadows cast by the light of constant truth.”
Science and the Unseen World (1929)
Context: If our so-called facts are changing shadows, they are shadows cast by the light of constant truth. So too in religion we are repelled by that confident theological doctrine... but we need not turn aside from the measure of light that comes into our experience showing us a Way through the unseen world.<!--IX, p.91
Source: When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice

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Twitter account, January 2019

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 282
Section 3.13 <!-- p. 183 -->
The Crosswicks Journal, A Circle of Quiet (1972)
Context: St. John said, "And the light shineth in the darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not." The light shines in the darkness and the darkness does not understand it, and cannot extinguish it ( I need the double meaning here of comprehend). This is the great cry of affirmation that is heard over and over again in our imaginative literature, in all art. It is a light to lighten our darkness, to guide us, and we do not need to know, in the realm of provable fact, exactly where it is going to take us.