EVEN STARS BURN OUT

"The Dark is generous. Its frist gift is concealment: our true face lies in the dark beneath our skins, our true hearts remain shadowed deeper still. But the great concealment lies not in protecting our secret truths, but in hiding from us the truths of others. The Dark protects us from what we dare not know. Its second gift is comforting illusion: the ease of gentle dreams in nights embrace, the beauty that imagination brings to what would repel in days harsh light. But the greatest of its comforts is the illusion that the Dark is only temperorary: that every night brings a new day. But it is day that is temorary. Day is the illusion. It third gift is the light itself: as days are defined by the nights that divide them, as stars are defined by the infinite black through which they wheel, the Dark embraces the light, and brings it forth from the center of its own self. Witheach victory of the light, it is the Dark that wins...The Dark is Generous, and it is patient. It is the Dark that seeds cruelty into justice, that drops contempt into compassion, that poisons love with the grains of doubt. The Dark can be patient, because the slitest drop of rain will cause the seeds to sprout. The rain will come, and the seeds will sprout, for the Dark is the soil in which they grow, and it is the clouds above them, and it waits behind the star that gives them light. The Darks patients is infinite. Eventually, even stars burn out...The Dark is Generous, and it is patient, and it always wins. It always wins because it is everywhere. It is in the wood that burns in your harth, and in the kettle on the fire; it is under your chair and under your table and under the sheets on your bed. Walk in the midday sun and the Dark is with you, attached to the souls of your feet. the brightest light casts the darkest shadow...The Dark is Generous, and it is patient, and it always wins - but in the heart of its strenght lies weakness: one lone Candle is enough to hold it back. Love is more than a candle. Love can ignite the stars."