Shadow Quotes

“Awakened ones are like the cool shadow of a tree. Light is harsh because of ego. Shadow has all the qualities of light except the ego. It is compassionate towards darkness also but it never steps into darkness.”
― Shunya

“If you don’t accept yourself, you can’t transcend yourself and the world: first, you need to increase your awareness, then you need to accept what you learn, then you need to take action.”
― Oli Anderson, Shadow Life: Freedom from Bullshit in an Unreal World

“I love the shade and the shadow, and would be alone with my thoughts when I may.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“Your Shadow is all of the things, 'positive' and 'negative', that you’ve denied about yourself and hidden beneath the surface of the mask you forgot that you’re wearing.”
― Oli Anderson, Shadow Life: Freedom from Bullshit in an Unreal World

“There is something waiting for us at the edge of the woods, and it is our fate to meet it.”
― Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves

“But someone has opened the door to a dark room within me, and the light has been lit within, like a beacon shining in the dark. And all is clear, and yet, still hidden in shadow, and I finally understand some of what you tell me, because someone else understands. Life is an adventure, even unto death, which is only yet another. The road is worth traveling well.”
― Trinity Vinton, The Rise of Ethrundson: Quest of a Thousand Questions

“Coming to accept our own shadow is an essential preliminary of the path to wholeness. Do not be afraid of your darkness; for once we trust the dragon and learn how to ride it, it will develop wings and take you places. You see, the dragon will somehow never cease to exist. Simply hop on and the ride will keep getting more pleasant with time.”
― Omar Cherif

“The Ego is the ‘thing’ that you’ve created to keep hiding from your Shadow, convinced that it’s all the ‘light’ or ‘good’ things about you – when in reality, the ego is neither ‘good’ nor ‘bad’ because it’s totally unreal.”
― Oli Anderson, Shadow Life: Freedom from Bullshit in an Unreal World

“Our work is to integrate and eventually transcend darkness and light altogether by holding them equally in a state of interconnection.”
― Sasha Graham, Dark Wood Tarot

“There is substantial truth in the saying “The bigger the fire, the more darkness it reveals”. For as our light increases, so does our apprehension of the darkness.”
― Omar Cherif

“The Shadow Life is real life but it can only be for those who don’t deny the truth about themselves, the world, and reality by becoming AWARE, cultivating unconditional ACCEPTANCE, and talking real ACTION.”
― Oli Anderson, Shadow Life: Freedom from Bullshit in an Unreal World

“Some shadows are so long, they arrive before the light.”
― Terry Pratchett, Soul Music

“While you are in a dream, everything seems real. If dreams are just a projection of your mind, this world is also a projection of your mind. The people around you are not real. Competing with them is like competing with your own shadow.”
― Shunya

“Nobody can rest in the coolness of their own shadow!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Look more inside to Live more outside.”
― Anujj Elviis

“Beware of the shadow as well as the fire.”
― Jordan Rivet, Duel of Fire

“I have written all this because I have thought that there might still be somewhere, possibly in literature or the arts, where something could be saved. I would call back at least for literature this world of shadows we are losing. In the mansion called literature I would have the eaves deep and the walls dark, I would push back into the shadows the things that come forward too clearly, I would strip away the useless decoration.”
― Tanizaki Jun’ichirô

“Who didn't use the shadow of a tree,
God never told us what an apple shall be.”
― G. P. Moci, A LONG VERSE OF SORROW

“We are all part of a God factory. Gods are what come off the production line at the end of an eons-long, protracted, dialectical process designed to overcome every possible obstacle, trial, setback, difficulty and ordeal. You need to be a God to survive the dialectic. It takes you to hell and forces you to confront the Devil. The Devil is you. The Devil is your Shadow. Only Devils can become Gods. That is the law of the dialectic.”
― Thomas Stark, The Stairway to Consciousness: The Birth of Self-Awareness from Unconscious Archetypes

“Yet although I could not resist doing so, my sleep was not interrupted. The door opened and a dark figure entered whom I recognized to my horror as my own self in Capuchin robes, with beard and tonsure. The figure came nearer and nearer my bed: I lay motionless, and every sound I tried to utter was stifled in the trance that gripped me. The figure sat down on my bed and leered mockingly at me.

“You must come with me,” it said. “Let us climb on to the roof beneath the weathercock, which is playing a merry tune for the owl's wedding. Up there we will fight with each other, and the one who pushes the other over will become king and be able to drink blood.”

I felt the figure take hold of me and lift me up. With a strength born of desperation I screamed:
“You are not me, you are the Devil!” - and clawed at the face of the menacing spectre. But my fingers went through his eyes as if they were empty cavities, and the figure burst into strident laughter.”
― E.T.A. Hoffmann, The Devil's Elixirs

“Your Ego and your Shadow are in constant conflict.”
― Oli Anderson, Shadow Life: Freedom from Bullshit in an Unreal World

“The shores run together, the waters are parallel. The waters run together, the shores are parallel. A single leaf rustles, the others are silent. Who knows how this dream ends?

He was so thin, so translucent, that he had to pass through the same place twice to leave a shadow.

Living out a destiny of convenience the way others sail under a flag of convenience.”
― Jean Baudrillard, Cool Memories

“I feel too much. To feel too much is unhealthy. But an excess of sensitivity is the paint that colors the tormented castle of genius. All human greatness is pathological in origin. My suffering breathes life into me, more and more life, more life than I can deal with. It allows me to travel to places I might never otherwise have visited: places in the mind, in the soul, in the mythic layers of unspoken fears. It is the source of my secret strength. It is a strength of which even Nimue cannot deprive me.”
― Mark Romel, The Mistletoe Murders: A Nietzschean Murder Mystery

“EVERY ENDING IS A NEW BEGINNING. YOUR LUCKY NUMBER IS NONE. YOUR LUCKY COLOR IS DEAD. Motto: LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON.
(Shadow's fortune, pg 121)”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

“Give yourself permission to walk away from those who belittle your ambitions and dreams, predict your doom, and constantly criticise you. Their projective reaction is nothing but a mere egoic reflection of their own emotions, perceptions, and experiences — which often occurs on the subconscious level, without them noticing. Reckon that it’s their story they are mirroring, not yours.”
― Omar Cherif

“Therefore, humanity's unconsciousness of its identity, is the Shadow of the Supreme Reality.”
― Laurence Galian, The Sun at Midnight: The Revealed Mysteries of the Ahlul Bayt Sufis

“The rejection of the Shadow is one of the greatest failings of patriarchal religion. Life and Death are realities to our psyche. They are a package deal. Christianity tries to paint the Devil/Evil/Death as the enemy of God/Goddess/Life. Rather than giving the Devil his due, Christianity has created a bizarre and distorted image of the Shadow.”
― Laurence Galian, The Sun at Midnight: The Revealed Mysteries of the Ahlul Bayt Sufis

“A chill cuts through the diner as the air conditioner kicks on, and I wonder if he's meeting someone by the shipping docks in Richside. It would be the perfect setting for those dark eyes that reflect the red, neon signs hanging above the counter.”
― Maisy Heart

“Reality must be caught in the trap, we must move quicker than reality. Ideas, too, have to move faster than their shadows. But if they go too quickly, they lose even their shadows. No longer having even the shadow of an idea. ... Words move quicker than meaning, but if they go too quickly, we have madness: the ellipsis of meaning can make us lose even the taste for the sign. What are we to exchange this portion of shadow and labour against -- this saving of intellectual activity and patience? What can we sell it to the devil for? It is very difficult to say. We are, in fact, the orphans of a reality come too late, a reality which is itself, like truth, something registered only after the event.”
― Jean Baudrillard, The Perfect Crime

“They had become each other’s shadow and even more than that, the true companions who would never part, not even in darkness.”
― Namrata Gupta, The Full Circle