Evagrius Ponticus·383 ADThe demon of acedia — also called the noonday demon — is the one that causes the most serious trouble of all. He presses his attack upon the monk about the fourth hour and besieges the soul until the eighth hour. First of all he makes it seem that the sun barely moves, if at all, and that the day is fifty hours long. Then he constrains the monk to look constantly out the windows, to walk outside the cell, to gaze carefully at the sun.
Walt Whitman·1855Dazzling and tremendous how quick the sun-rise would kill me, / If I could not now and always send sun-rise out of me.
Carl Jung·1938Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual's conscious life, the blacker and denser it is.
