There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope. Baruch Spinoza

It’s a cruel thing to give such a sad song to such a colorful bird

The bud disappears in the bursting-forth of the

blossom, and one might say that the former is

refuted by the latter; similarly, when the fruit appears,

the blossom is shown up in its turn as a false

manifestation of the plant, and the fruit now emerges as

truth of it instead. These forms are not just

distinguished from one another, they also supplant one

another as mutually incompatible. Yet at the same time

their fluid nature makes them moments of an organic

unity in which they not only do not conflict, but in

which each is as necessary as the other; and this mutual

necessity alone constitutes the life of the whole”

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The eye through which I see God is the same eye

through which God sees me; my eye and God’s eye are

one eye, on seeing, one knowing, one love”

—Meister Eckhart

When the darkness comes one’s mind is their worst

enemy

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