What strange places our lives can carry us to what dark passages.
For though Death be a dark passage it leads to immortality and that is recompence enough for suffering of it.
How science dwindles and how volumes swell How commentators each dark passage shun And hold their farthing candle to the sun!
O harmless Death! whom still the valiant brave The wise expect the sorrowful invite And all the good embrace who know the grave A short dark passage to eternal light.
Except for our higher order of minds we are like the little moles under the earth carrying out blindly the work of digging thinking our own dark passage-ways constitute all there is to the world.
I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep my boat steady and my sails full.
The Hobbit' was one of the first biggish books I ever read. I remember vividly the 'riddles in the dark' passage and it meant a lot to me to finally get to play it after all these years.
Those who refuse to look at or give expression to the dark side of life are in denial-fear preventing passage through the door of growth truth and ultimately wisdom.