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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.

Concerning the factors of silence, solitude and darkness, we can only say that they are actually elements in the production of the infantile anxiety from which the majority of human beings have never become quite free. Freud

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.

In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time. W. Somerset Maugham

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.

[W]e Orientals tend to seek our satisfactions in whatever surroundings we happen to find ourselves, to content ourselves with things as they are... and so darkness causes us no discontent, we resign ourselves to it as inevitable. . . But the progressive Westerner is determined always to better his lot. From candle to oil lamp, oil lamp to gaslight, gaslight to electric light-- his quest for a brighter light never ceases, he spares no pains to eradicate event the minutest shadow' (Tanizaki 'in praise of shadows' in Hassan eagle and the sun : 30)

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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, no matter how ominous and intimidating, 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. Rebbe Menachem Schneerson

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

[W]e Orientals tend to seek our satisfactions in whatever surroundings we happen to find ourselves, to content ourselves with things as they are... and so darkness causes us no discontent, we resign ourselves to it as inevitable. . . But the progressive Westerner is determined always to better his lot. From candle to oil lamp, oil lamp to gaslight, gaslight to electric light-- his quest for a brighter light never ceases, he spares no pains to eradicate event the minutest shadow' (Tanizaki, Junichiro) (Tanizaki 'in praise of shadows' in Hassan eagle and the sun : 30)

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

According to Tanizaki, darkness is preferable to light since darkness smoothes over imperfections and leaves much to the imagination.

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

All colors will agree in the dark. Francis Bacon

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.

'We find beauty not in the thing itself but in the patterns of shadows, the light and the darkness, that one thing against another creates Were it not for shadows, there would be no beauty.'

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