And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. - John 1:5
Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself. - Desiderius Erasmus
A little light dispels much darkness - Zohar, Rabbi Shimon ben Yohai
He built it, Raised it high, proportioned it, gave darkness to its night, and brightness to its day - Koran 79:28-30
Yet mystery and imagination arise from the same source.
This
source is called darkness. . . .
Darkness within darkness, the gateway to
all understanding.
- Dao De Jing, Lao-tsu,
0 nobly-born, the time hath now come for thee to seek the Path in reality. Thy breathing is about to cease. Thy guru hath set thee face to face before with the Clear Light; and now thou art about to experience in its Reality in the Bardo state, wherein all things are like the void and cloudless sky, and the naked, spotless intellect is like unto a transparent vacuum without circumference or centre. At this moment, know thou thyself-, and abide in that state. I, too, at this time, am setting thee face to face.- Bardo Thodol, Padma Sambhava
And suppose once more, that he is reluctantly dragged up a steep and rugged ascent, and held fast until he is forced into the presence of the sun himself, is he not likely to be pained and irritated? When he approaches the light his eyes will be dazzled, and he will not be able to see anything at all of what are now called realities.
- Allegory of the Cave By Socrates, Written by Plato