Posts tagged darkness.
We are involved with flower, leaf, and fruit.
They speak not just the language of one year.
From darkness a bright phenomenon appears
and still reflects, perhaps, the jealous glint
of the dead, who fill the earth.
Rainer Maria Rilke, trans. Stephen Mitchell.
There is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own soul. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.
C.G. Jung.
Then when Pronoia saw that emissary, she became enamoured of him. But he hated her because she was in the darkness. But she desired to embrace him, and she was not able to. When she was unable to assuage her love, she poured out her light upon the earth.
On the Origin of the World, trans. Hans-Gebhard Bethge and Bentley Layton.
Deep in the rain thicket
I shall tread the stones on the river’s bank,
listening in the haze of the plains.
The swallows
were upstream and the night was
green, the forest dove called:
My darkness has come already.
Johannes Bobrowski, trans. F. Wittenberg.



