Starhawk Quotes

The dark today leads into light tomorrow. There is no endless joy, and yet no endless sorrow.

It is a mistake for anyone to think he has lived too long in his old, unsatisfactory ways to make the great change. If you switch on the light in a dark room, it makes no difference how long it was dark because the light will still shine. Be teachable. That is the whole secret.

When you start to crack open, don't waste a moment gathering your old self up into something like you knew before. Let your new self splash like sunlight into every dark place and laugh and cry and make sounds you never made & thank all that is holy for the gift.

Even places that have been shrouded in darkness for billions of years can be illuminated. Even a stone from the bottom of a river can be used to produce fire. Our present sufferings, no matter how dark, have certainly not continued for billions of years--nor will they linger forever. The sun will definitely rise. In fact, its ascent has already begun.

As every season seems best to us in its turn, so the coming in of spring is like the creation of Cosmos out of Chaos and the realization of the Golden Age.

Change was as much about loss as gain, about giving something up even as you reached for something new or different. The world was opening up, not closing in.

Even this late it happens: the coming of love, the coming of light.

To make an end is to make a beginning.

If the house of the world is dark, Love will find a way to create windows.

To stay in one place and watch the seasons come and go is tanatmount to constant travel: One is traveling with the earth.

It's not easy to be Light when you've been Dark. It's almost too much to ask anyone. -Macon Ravenwood

Summer treads on heels of spring.

Where we're standing right now, in the ruins in the dark, what we build could be anything.

So then the year is repeating its old story again. We are come once more, thank God! to its most charming chapter. The violets and the Mayflowers are as its inscriptions or vignettes. It always makes a pleasant impression on us, when we open again at these pages of the book of life.

Jon passes from Darkness to Light.

Come, fill the Cup, and in the Fire of Spring The Winter Garment of Repentance fling: The Bird of Time has but a little way To fly-and Lo! the Bird is on the Wing.

When we believe we have all the answers, we are not open to mystery. To begin a mystical journey, you have to start with a sense of wonder, of not knowing where you are going or how you will travel. The initial phase of alchemy is called the nigredo-it's the phase of darkness, when it's "blacker than black." You feel this when you start something new-go off to college, start a new job, travel to a foreign land, or end a relationship that is not working.

The deepest dark reveals the starriest hope.

Night's darkness is a bag that bursts with the gold of the dawn.

They were pleasant spring days, in which the winter of man's discontent was thawing as well as the earth, and the life that had lain torpid began to stretch itself.

To go in the dark with a light is to know the light. To know the dark, go dark.

History is not ended. It will sooner or later take up the threads apparently broken off forever and knit them together in a new pattern.

For this freedom I have given all I had For this darkness I gave my light For this wisdom I have lost my innocence Take my petals And cover me with the night