Dawn.
"Maybe one of the great unknown--unrecognized--truths of life is that light always dawns, eventually; that there is no such thing as a perpetual PERPETUAL. That which is to last without limitation as to time; as, a perpetual statute, which is one without limit as to time, although not expressed to be so. darkness of soul. I know that in my own case the darkness only existed because I refused the light. I simply did not want the light. I had been in the cocoon cocoon: see pupa. of darkness for so long I thought that it was light. Maybe life is simply a going from light to light, from darkness to darkness till the last Great Darkness The Great Darkness is an uncertain term used by the ent Treebeard in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, apparently referring to the time that Middle-earth was under the dominion of Morgoth. signals the coming of the First Great Light." (Joan Chittister Sister Joan D. Chittister, OSB (born 26 April 1936) is a Benedictine nun and an international lecturer on topics concerning women, the poor, peace and justice, and contemporary issues in church and society. , in Called to question: A Spiritual Memoir, Sheed & Ward)
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