Helen M. Luke Quotes

• The true light never hides the darkness but is born out of the very center of it, transforming and redeeming. So to the darkness we must return, each of us individually accepting his ignorance and loneliness, his sin and weakness, and, most difficult of all, consenting to wait in the dark and even to love the waiting

  Helen M. Luke

  Love, Loneliness, Ignorance

  Helen M. Luke (1992). “Kaleidoscope: The Way of Woman and Other Essays”, Morning Light Press

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• Wisdom consists in doing the next thing that you have to do, doing it with your whole heart and finding delight in it — and the delight is the sense of the sacred.

  Helen M. Luke

  Heart, Delight, Sacred

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• Each of us, as we journey through life, has the opportunity to find and to give his or her unique gift.
  Whether this gift is quiet or small in the eyes of the world does not matter at all-not at all; it is through the finding and the giving that we may come to know the joy that lies at the center of both the dark times and the light.

  Helen M. Luke

  Lying, Eye, Dark

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• We hurry through the so-called boring things in order to attend to that which we deem more important, interesting. Perhaps the final freedom will be a recognition that every thing in every moment is 'essential' and that nothing at all is 'important.'

  Helen M. Luke

  Order, Interesting, Important

  Helen M. Luke (2011). “The Way of Woman: Awakening the Perennial Feminine”, p.107, Image

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• The coming to consciousness is not a discovery of some new thing; it is a long and painful return to that which has always been.

  Helen M. Luke

  Discovery, Long, Return

  Helen M. Luke (1975). “Dark wood to white rose: a study of meanings in Dante's Divine comedy”

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• The only valid cure for any kind of depression is the acceptance of real suffering. To climb out of it any other way is simply laying the foundation for the next depression.

  Helen M. Luke

  Real, Acceptance, Suffering

  Helen M. Luke (2011). “The Way of Woman: Awakening the Perennial Feminine”, p.82, Image

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• The ego will endure the worst agonies of neurotic misery rather than consent to one minute of diminishment of its sense of importance.

  Helen M. Luke

  Agony, Ego, Misery

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• Unless a man or woman has experienced the darkness of the soul he or she can know nothing of that transforming laughter without which no hint of the ultimate reality of the opposites can be faintly intuited.

  Helen M. Luke

  Laughter, Reality, Men

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• The inner story, though the same in essence for all, is always single and unique in each human being, never before lived and never to be repeated.

  Helen M. Luke

  Unique, Essence, Stories

  Helen M. Luke (2011). “The Way of Woman: Awakening the Perennial Feminine”, p.127, Image

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