The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1870)
Context: Grant an Idea, Primal Cause, the Causing Cause, why crave for more?
Why strive its depth and breadth to mete, to trace its work, its aid to íimplore?
Unknown, Incomprehensible, whateíer you choose to call it, call;
But leave it vague as airy space, dark in its darkness mystical.
“Afraid of the darkness of the unknown, the spaces in which we see only dimly, we often choose the darkness of closed eyes, of obliviousness.”
Source: Men Explain Things to Me
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“It is sure to be dark if you close your eyes.”
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago
[Morgan, Forrest, Shakespeare—the Man, The works of Walter Bagehot, vol. 1, 1891, https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101064786716;view=1up;seq=388, 280 of 255–302]
Shakespeare—the Man (1853)
“Closing my eyes doesn’t help. Fire burns brighter in the darkness.”
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Source: The Hunger Games trilogy, Mockingjay (2010)
“And, in the darkness, David closed his eyes as all that was lost was found again.”
Source: The Book of Lost Things