darkness, n.Definitions

Darkness is equalizing and harmonizing. All colors will agree in the dark.

Darkness is preferable to light since darkness smoothes over imperfections and leaves much to the imagination.

Darkness is, along with silence and solitude, an element in the production of the infantile anxiety from which the majority of human beings have never become quite free.

Darkness is friendly and familiar in the country... in the city it is it is unnatural, hostile and menacing, like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time.

Darkness is, in Japan, not troubling because it is resigned to as inevitable. How very different from the progressive westerner who always wants to better his lot.

Darkness is not a thing or force: It is merely the absence of light. So light need not combat and overpower darkness in order to displace it where light is, darkness is not. A thimbleful of light will therefore banish a roomful of darkness. The same is true of good and evil: Evil is not a thing or force, but merely the absence or concealment of good. One need not 'defeat' the evil in the world... one need only bring to light its inherent goodness.

Darkness is not troubling because it is resigned to as inevitable. How very different from the progressive westerner who always wants to better his lot.

Darkness is necessary to beauty, for beauty is not in the thing itself but in the patterns of shadows, the light and the darkness, that one thing against another creates.