Source: Beatrice & Virgil (2010), p. 103
Context: To my mind, faith is like being in the sun. When you are in the sun, can you avoid creating a shadow? Can you shake that area of darkness that clings to you, always shaped like you, as if constantly to remind you of yourself? You can't. This shadow is doubt. And it goes wherever you go as long as you stay in the sun. And who wouldn't want to be in the sun?
“you are my sun, and if the sun went out, the shadow would die.”
“Keep your face to the sun and you will never see the shadows.”
Variant: Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows. It's what the sunflowers do.
http://nationalpost.com/health/this-certainly-would-go-against-any-medical-advice-i-would-give-canadian-doctors-respond-to-gwyneth-paltrows-sun-exposure-suggestion source
“Look at the sun sinkin' like a ship. Ain't that just like my heart, babe. When you kissed my lips?”
Song lyrics, Another Side of Bob Dylan (1964), It Ain't Me Babe
Context: Go away from my window,
Leave at your own chosen speed,
I'm not the one you want, babe,
I'm not the one you need.
You say you're looking for someone,
Who's never weak but always strong,
To protect you and defend you,
Whether you are right or wrong,
Someone to open each and every door,
But it ain't me, babe,
No, no, no, it ain't me, babe,
It ain't me you're looking for, babe.
“The powers of the mind are like the rays of the sun when they are concentrated they illumine.”
Pearls of Wisdom
Source: Queen Margot, or Marguerite de Valois
“Like our shadows,
Our wishes lengthen as our sun declines.”
Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night V, Line 661.
