Darkness as well as light. Or do I mean darkness, another kind of light? Lucifer would say so, and I have a weakness for fallen angels.
Interpretation
This quote reflects on the complexities of duality in human experience, suggesting that darkness can also represent a form of enlightenment.
Jeanette Winterson's quote explores the idea that darkness and light are intertwined; one cannot exist without the other. It suggests that our perceptions of good and evil, or light and darkness, are subjective and may hold deeper meanings. By referencing Lucifer and fallen angels, the quote invites readers to consider the beauty and insights that can emerge from perceived negativity or moral ambiguity, challenging conventional notions of what is considered 'good'.
In practice
In a discussion about the complexity of human nature and morality.
What is remembered is not a deed in stone but a metaphor. Meta = above. Pheren = to carry. That which is carried above the literalness of life. A way of thinking that avoids the problems of gravity. The word won't let me down. The single word that can release me from all that unuttered weight.
Reading things that are relevant to the facts of your life is of limited value. The facts are, after all, only the facts, and the yearning passionate part of you will not be met there. That is why reading ourselves as a fiction as well as fact is so liberating. The wider we read the freer we become.
I have a list of titles that I leave at the [library] desk, because they are bound to be written some day, and it's best to be ahead of the queue.
Woolf wanted to say dangerous things in Orlando but she did not want to say them in the missionary position.
In that house, you will find my heart. You must break in, Henri, and get it back for me.' Was she mad? We had been talking figuratively. Her heart was in her body like mine. I tried to explain this to her, but she took my hand and put it against her chest. Feel for yourself.
History is a string full of knots, the best you can do is admire it, and maybe tie it up a bit more. History is a hammock for swinging and a game for playing.
I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.
The kingdom of heaven is like electricity. You don't see it. It is within you.
Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison. I am near, too near for him to dream of me.
At physical death man loses his consciousness of the flesh and becomes conscious of his astral body in the astral world. Thus physical death is astral birth. Later, he passes from the consciousness of luminous astral birth to the consciousness of dark astral death and awakens in a new physical body. Thus astral death is physical birth. These recurrent cycles of physical and astral encasements are the ineluctable destiny of all unenlightened men.
Prayer is the force as real as terrestrial gravity. As a physician, I have seen men, after all other therapy had failed, lifted out of disease and melancholy by the serene effort of prayer. Only in prayer do we achieve that complete and harmonious assembly of body, mind and spirit which gives the frail human reed its unshakable strength.
Do not look at the faces in the illustrated papers. Look at the faces in the street.
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