It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.
Rod SerlingRead
There is nothing in the dark that isn't there when the lights are on.
Interpretation
The quote suggests that the truth remains constant regardless of our ability to see it.
Rod Serling's quote reminds us that our perception often changes based on circumstances like visibility, but the underlying reality does not change. The metaphor of darkness and light highlights how fear and misunderstanding can distort our view of the truth, suggesting that gaining knowledge or clarity can help us confront what truly exists, regardless of our initial perceptions.
In practice
This quote could be used in a discussion about confronting fears and misconceptions in a self-help seminar.
It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.
It may be said with a degree of assurance that not everything that meets the eye is as it appears.
It has forever been thus: So long as men write what they think, then all of the other freedoms - all of them - may remain intact. And it is then that writing becomes a weapon of truth, an article of faith, an act of courage.
Some people possess talent, others are possessed by it. When that happens, a talent becomes a curse.
Every writer is a frustrated actor who recites his lines in the hidden auditorium of his skull.
Fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science Fiction is the improbable made possible.
I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till i drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
People say, 'Did you violate Heaven?' Well, God is down here, too. If you believe in God, you believe in God here as well as 240,000 miles away.
Naught can deform the human race Like to the armor's iron brace.
Man's ideal state is realized when he has fulfilled the purpose for which he is born. And what is it that reason demands of him? Something very easy-that he live in accordance with his own nature.
We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth and growth of the spirit, in those who are attentive to their own inner life, are slow and exceedingly painful. Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth.
If God is Trinity and Jesus is the face of God, then it is a benevolent universe. God is not someone to be afraid of, but is the Ground of Being and on our side.
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