Wish I was clever enough to be the first to say that, but I have seen it written so many times, I do not know who to credit for saying it first.
Just yesterday, I picked up a book and found a few words striking close to home. I would like to quote a brief passage from the book, The Heart Aroused, by David Whyte, regarding the light and dark side of things.
"In preclassical Greek thought, the light-filled part of existence was represented by Apollo. If we want to imagine the Apollonic in our lives it might be to think of ourselves, one August day, whistling happily as we work, painting a white picket fence in Dade County, Florida, proud of our home and our plans and happy that God is in his heaven. The Dionysian is Hurricane Andrew the very next day, blowing your fence, your house, and your kids' future, without qualm or conscience, off God's green earth.
It is the part of life that carries passion, sound, and fury, or frightening emptiness, and often no immediate meaning of the cruel. It is the part of life at which we might gladly shake our fist. It is Job lamenting at the peridy of God's justice. It is everything we were afraid could be true about existence, and astonishinly, and despite everthing we would wish to the contrary, it seems to be an energy without which we cannot appreciate the gift of the light-filled, ordered world; remove it, and our soul life becomes puzzingly empty and impoverished."
Really gives you a great view of the world. Everything is not always peaches and cream -- such is life.
