Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} The Dark There is darkness in all of us by Nastasia Botha The Dark: There is darkness in all of us by Nastasia Botha. Completing the CAPTCHA proves you are a human and gives you temporary access to the web property. What can I do to prevent this in the future? If you are on a personal connection, like at home, you can run an anti-virus scan on your device to make sure it is not infected with malware. If you are at an office or shared network, you can ask the network administrator to run a scan across the network looking for misconfigured or infected devices. Another way to prevent getting this page in the future is to use Privacy Pass. You may need to download version 2.0 now from the Chrome Web Store. Cloudflare Ray ID: 657cb3849a3984e0 • Your IP : 188.246.226.140 • Performance & security by Cloudflare. The Dark: There is darkness in all of us by Nastasia Botha. Completing the CAPTCHA proves you are a human and gives you temporary access to the web property. What can I do to prevent this in the future? If you are on a personal connection, like at home, you can run an anti-virus scan on your device to make sure it is not infected with malware. If you are at an office or shared network, you can ask the network administrator to run a scan across the network looking for misconfigured or infected devices. Another way to prevent getting this page in the future is to use Privacy Pass. You may need to download version 2.0 now from the Chrome Web Store. Cloudflare Ray ID: 657cb38489b5c43d • Your IP : 188.246.226.140 • Performance & security by Cloudflare. The Champ In The Arena: R.I.P. DMX, who gave sports the best hype music in hip-hop history. The hip-hop icon and legendary poet passed away today at the age of 50 of a heart attack. DMX’s recoding label Def Jam issued a statement on his passing. Def Jam Recordings and the extended Def Jam family of artists, executives and employees are deeply and profoundly saddened by the loss of our brother Earl “DMX” Simmons. DMX was a brilliant artist and an inspiration to millions around the world. His message of triumph over struggle, his search for the light out of darkness, his pursuit of truth and grace brought us closer to our own humanity. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family and all those who loved him and were touched by him. DMX was nothing less than a giant. His legend will live on forever. Arena-friendly music, in terms of sound, exploded into a crucial element of hip-hop during the 1990s, at which DMX became the center of throughout his storied career. Embarking on a solo hip-hop career during the 1990s, DMX became the first hip-hop artist to debut with two Billboard No. 1 (of the overall top-200) albums in the same year, with It’s Dark and Hell is Hot in May of 1998, then Flesh of My Flesh, Blood of My Blood that December. Not only that, but DMX became the first hip-hop artist to debut with five consecutive Billboard No. 1 albums, a run that lasted through 2003, all of which are at least one-time platinum. And a large portion of his allure was simply this: With a distinctly intense bravado that naturally gravitated toward competition, DMX’s music made you want to overcome any obstacle in your life. If you had a game to play, a big exam, a job interview, an event, your graduation, or any significant moment of your life, chances are, you might’ve played a DMX record beforehand. Respectfully, there is no one — not Nas, not Jay-Z, not Snoop Dogg, not Outkast, not 50 Cent, not Eminem, not anyone — who produced more effective hype songs in the history of the genre than DMX. No, that doesn’t mean he’s the best hip-hop artist ever, but it indicates that he’s the best at what he specifically did. Possibly, the most notable example of this has been Brooklyn-born boxing legend Mike Tyson, a fellow New Yorker to the late Yonkers native, who came out to What’s My Name? before his infamous 2002-bout with rival Lennox Lewis, something HBO’s Jim Lampley said sounded like, “An assault on normal standards of decency.” Current arguable pound-for-pound No. 1 boxer Terence Crawford typically uses What’s My Name? as at least part of his intro as well . Before a 1999-bout with Frans Botha, Tyson’s first since suffering a suspension due to the Evander Holyfield ear-biting incident of 1997, Iron Mike returned with the Intro to It’s Dark and Hell is Hot , for one of the most bone-chilling entrances ever. (He won by a fifth-round knockout.) Chuck Liddell had undergone a two-fight losing streak prior to UFC 79 in 2007 and used that same intro to power him to a win over Wanderlei Silva in what became UFC’s Fight of the Year and Liddell’s final victory. And there are an endless amount of other songs you’ve at least heard the instrumental of while at a sporting event, if not the actual song during a highlight or as part of a soundtrack. Party Up (In Here) X Gon’ Give It To Ya Where The Hood At Ruff Ryders Anthem. We Right Here We In Here (Ft. Swizz Beatz) Stop Being Greedy Get At Me Dog Who We Be. I Don’t Dance (Ft. MGK) Get It On The Floor (Ft. Swizz Beatz) 4, 3, 2, 1 (with LL Cool J, Method Man, Redman, and Canibus) Money, Cash, Hoes (With Jay-Z) Ain’t No Sunshine. And, honestly, the list could continue for a while longer, but you get the point. Now, he wasn’t perfect, but we’re all pretty fucked up, aren’t we? On the mic, very few were more impactful across any genre of music. He was the ultimate battery in your back, but he would also sit you down and drop knowledge, letting you know you’re far from alone in your daily struggles. In the arena, he was a bonafide one-of-one. And in his arena, nobody did that better. Let us all strive to be a fraction as impactful DMX was to hip-hop, music culture, and many of us. The Dark: There is darkness in all of us by Nastasia Botha. This post contains affiliate links. Read the full disclosure here. If you are looking for an incredible selection of mental health quotes you’re in the right place. Mental health is how people think, behave, and feel in certain challenging situations in life. It includes your psychological, emotional, and social well-being. In today’s busy society looking after our mental health is becoming increasingly important. This collection of quotes about mental health will hopefully make you more aware of mental health. Once you have read these mental health quotes it will help to make you a stronger person. Related Posts: Right, let’s jump into this list of mental health quotes. Top 10 Mental Health Quotes. Being able to be your true self is one of the strongest components of good mental health. Dr. Lauren Fogel Mersy. Balancing time you spend with or without people is crucial for mental health. Amy E. Spiegel. The humanity we all share is more important than the mental illnesses we may not. Elyn R. Saks. What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, and more unashamed conversation. Glenn Close. Be patient and tough; some day this pain will be useful to you. Ovid. In the middle of winter I at last discovered that there was in me an invincible summer. Albert Camus. Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It’s the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with. Adam Ant. The acknowledgement of having suffered evil is the greatest step forward in mental health. Stefan Molyneux. What I love about therapy is that they’ll tell you what your blind spots are. Although that’s uncomfortable and painful, it gives you something to work with. Pink. She is beautiful piece of broken pottery, put back together by her own hands. And a critical world judges her cracks while missing the beauty of how she made herself whole again. J.M. Storm. Top 10 Mental Health Quotes YouTube Video. More Mental Health Quotes. If you’re going through hell, keep going. Winston Churchill. Some days I am more wolf than woman, and I am still learning how to stop apologizing for my wild. Nikita Gill. Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves Henry David Thoreau. There is so much pain in the world, and most of these people keep theirs secret, rolling through agonizing lives in invisible wheelchairs, dressed in invisible body casts. Andrew Solomon. If you have been brutally broken but still have the courage to be gentle to other living beings, then you’re a badass with a heart of an angel. Keanu Reeves. Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I’m not going to make it, but you laugh inside remembering all the times you’ve felt that way. Charles Bukowski. I cannot stand the words Get over it. All of us are under such pressure to put our problems in the past tense. Slow down. Don’t allow other to hurry your healing. It is a process, one that may take years, occasionally, even a lifetime, and that’s OK. Beau Taplin. Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary. Fred Rogers. Part of my identity is saying no to things I don’t want to do… I check in with myself throughout the day and I say, ‘Do I really want to do this?’ and if the answer is no, then I don’t do it. And you shouldn’t either. Lady Gaga. Mental health problems don’t define who you are. They are something you experience. You walk in the rain and you feel the rain, but, importantly, YOU ARE NOT THE RAIN. Matt Haig. No visible symptoms, no runny nose, just a head full of darkness. No fever or rash no fractures or sprains, just a longing for something unable to explain. Anonymous. Positive vibes only’ isn’t a thing. Humans have a wide range of emotions and that’s OK. Molly Bahr, LMHC. The problem with having problems is that ‘someone’ always has it worse. Tiffany Madison. Sometimes, mental illness is terrifying because you feel like you’ve lost control of your mind and nothing makes sense. It’s like watching yourself on autopilot and having little to no control. Anonymous. You look at me and cry; everything hurts. I hold you and whisper: but everything can heal. Rupi Kaur. No amount of therapy can or self care can make up for scarcity of food & drink, time, or financial resources. Whitney Goodman, LMFT. No amount of support or generosity justifies someone treating you badly. This includes parents. Sarah Crosby. Imagine how many suicide victims would still be with us, if only the right person said the right thing at the right time. Wayne Gerard Trotman. Sometimes in life, you just need a hug. No words, no advice, just a hug to make you feel better. Anonymous. Life doesn’t make any sense without interdependence. We need each other, and the sooner we learn that, the better for us all. Erik Erikson. The mentally ill frighten and embarrass us. And so we marginalize the people who most need our acceptance. What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, more unashamed conversation. Glenn Close. Take a deep breath to remember you are the child who lived through survival mode and the empowered adult who chose their healing. Dr. Nicole LePera. On particularly rough days when I’m sure I can’t possibly endure more, I remind myself that my track record for getting through bad days has been %. And that’s pretty good. M. Weidenbenner. What if you moved through the world as if you were easy to be loved? Because I promise you, you are easy to love. Sonalee Rashatwar, LCSW. I keep moving ahead, as always, knowing deep down inside that I am a good person and that I am worthy of a good life. Jonathan Harnisch. Sometimes the people around you won’t understand your journey. They don’t need to, it’s not for them. Joubert Botha. Inspiring Mental Health Quotes. I would never slay the dragon, because the dragon was also me. John Green. You cannot heal a lifetime of pain overnight, be patient with yourself, it takes as long as it takes to rebuild yourself. Anonymous. One small crack does not mean that you are broken, it means that you were put to the test and you didn’t fall apart. Linda Poindexter. The hidden strength is too deep a secret. But in the end, it is our only ally. Joanne Greenberg. I get up and pace the room, as if I can leave my guilt behind me. But it tracks me as I walk, an ugly shadow made by myself. Rosamund Lupton. You can’t control everything. Sometimes you just need to relax and have faith that things will work out. Let go a little and just let life happen. Kody Keplinger. Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery. None but ourselves can free our minds. Tara Westover. It is not the the bruises on the body that hurt. It is the wounds of the heart and the scars on the mind. Aisha Mirza. He had the feeling that there was something physically behind his eyes, blocking the light. Jeffrey Eugenides. To that one soul reading this: I know you’re tired, you’re fed up, you’re close to breaking, but there’s strength within you, even when you feel weak. Keep fighting. Anonymous. My dark days made me stronger. Or maybe I already was strong, and they made me prove it. Emery Lord. It’s not always your mental health that is the problem; sometimes the situation you are in needs to change. Anonymous. It’s okay to feel unstable. It’s okay to disassociate. It’s okay to hide from the world. It’s okay to need help. It’s okay not to be okay. Your mental illness is not a personal failure. Anonymous. This feeling will pass. The fear is real but the danger is not. Cammie McGovern. But no matter how much evil I see, I think it’s important for everyone to understand that there is much more light than darkness. Robert Uttaro. If you are broken, you do not have to stay broken. Selena Gomez. Just because no one else can heal or do your inner work for you doesn’t mean you can, should, or need to do it alone. Lisa Olivera. I have never been remotely ashamed of having been depressed. Never. What’s there to be ashamed of? I went through a really tough time and I am quite proud that I got out of that. J. K. Rowling. In any given moment, we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety. Abraham Maslow. The best thing you could do is master the chaos in you. You are not thrown into the fire, you are the fire. Mama Indigo. I know what it’s like to be afraid of your own mind. Spencer Reid. I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship. Amy March, from Little Women. There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in Leonard Cohen. Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light. Albus Dumbledore. I was with someone recently who asked: ‘Well, don’t you think that if you do too much therapy it will take away your artistic process?’ And I told them: ‘The biggest lie that we’ve ever been sold is that we as artists have to stay in pain to create.’ Katy Perry. It’s never overreacting to ask for what you want and need. Amy Poehler. The experience I have had is that once you start talking about [experiencing a mental health struggle], you realize that actually you’re part of quite a big club. Prince Harry. Positive Mental Health Quotes. You don’t need to find a lesson in your trauma. Jordan Pickell, MCP RCC. Selfcare is how you take your power back. Lalah Delia. You don’t have to control your thoughts. You just have to stop letting them control you. Dan Millman. Nobody can save you but yourself, and you’re worth saving. It’s a war not easily won, but if anything is worth winning then this is it. Charles Bukowski. It is as if my life were magically run by two electric currents, joyous positive and despairing negative, whichever is running at the moment dominates my life, floods it. Silvia Plath. Scars remind us where we’ve been. They don’t have to dictate where we’re going. David Rossi. Your feelings are valid. You have the right to feel whatever you feel. You aren’t exaggerating. You aren’t being too sensitive. you aren’t being dramatic. You’re hurting, and that’s okay. Anonymous. Tough times never last, but tough people do! Robert Schuller. There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn’t. John Green. There is no standard normal. Normal is subjective. There are seven billion versions of normal on this planet. Matt Haig. I found that with depression, one of the most important things you can realize is that you’re not alone. You’re not the first to go through it, you’re not gonna be the last to go through it, Dwayne The Rock Johnson. Increasing the strength of our minds is the only way to reduce the difficulty of life. Mokokoma Mokhonoana. Mental health is something that we all need to talk about, and we need to take the stigma away from it. So let’s raise the awareness. Let’s let everybody know it’s OK to have a mental illness and addiction problem. Demi Lovato. Trauma creates change you don’t choose. Healing is about creating change you do choose. Michelle Rosenthall. Promise me you’ll always remember you’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. Christopher Robin from Winnie the Pooh. Selfesteem is not a luxury; it is a profound spiritual need. Nathaniel Branden. Healing takes time, and asking for help is a courageous step. Mariska Hargitay. If there is a single definition of healing it is to enter with mercy and awareness those pains, mental and physical, from which we have withdrawn in judgment and dismay. Stephen Levine. Two things can be true. You can love your family and have deep wounds as a result of your family experiences. Nedra Glover Tawwab. Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people. Carl Jung. Take your time healing, as long as you want. Nobody else knows what you’ve been through. How could they know how long it will take to heal you. Anonymous. You don’t have to be positive all the time. It’s perfectly okay to feel sad, angry, annoyed, frustrated, scared and anxious. Having feelings doesn’t make you a negative person. It makes you human. Lori Deschene. The Mindset of the Enemy, By Femi Fani-Kayode. One of the greatest and most respected modern historians that ever lived, an Englishman by the name of Professor Hugh Trevor-Roper of Oxford University, once described the history of black Africa as being “darkness, nothing but darkness”. As if that were not bad enough, there was another even more indicting contribution from a famous and wealthy Arab slave trader (who lived in the 18th century) and whose name was Mehtma Mohammed. He captured and purchased his slaves mainly from what is now West Africa and transported them through the Sudan to the Arab world and to the Middle East where they spent the rest of their short and brutish lives. Mehtma Mohammed said the following about the black African: these black creatures were born to be in perpetual servitude and were ordained by God to be our slaves forever. They are lazy, greedy, stupid, godless, dirty and most important of all they are cowards. When you put the whip to them and hard they line up and will do anything for you. They and their African brothers who sell them to us have no sense of collective purpose and they think nothing of killing and selling their own kinsmen for a pittance. They have no god and they have no interest in dying for or fighting for anything which is outside their daily feeding. They are docile, lazy, dirty and stupid and that is why I have made so much money from selling them. The most gratifying thing is that even if one of the group shows signs of any potential or hope of being able to be a great leader to the others, they are the ones that will expose him, report him and destroy him just for a few morsels from my table. They present no danger to us. They are as harmless and fearful as puppies and they only growl like dogs at each other and to no-one else. We will shame them, trade them, own them and rule over them forever. These are painful and harsh words coming from this Arab slave-trader. Yet sadly such views about the African are not limited to the likes of him or indeed to the 18th century. Permit me to give you just one example. The following is a speech that was made by former South African President P.W. Botha to his Cabinet. This reprint was written by David G. Mailu for the Sunday Times , a South African newspaper, dated August 18, 1985. It reads as follows: Pretoria has been made by the White mind for the White man. We are not obliged even the least to try to prove to anybody and to the Blacks that we are superior people. We have demonstrated that to the Blacks in a thousand and one ways. The Republic of South Africa that we know of today has not been created by wishful thinking. We have created it at the expense of intelligence, sweat and blood. Were they Afrikaners who tried to eliminate the Australian Aborigines? Are they Afrikaners who discriminate against Blacks and call them Niggers in the States? Were they Afrikaners who started the slave trade? Where is the Black man appreciated? England discriminates against its Black and their “Sus” law is out to discipline the Blacks. Canada, France, Russia, and Japan all play their discrimination too. Why in the hell then is so much noise made about us? Why are they biased against us? I am simply trying to prove to you all that there is nothing unusual, we are doing that the so called civilised worlds are not doing. We are simply an honest people who have come out aloud with a clear philosophy of how we want to live our own White life. We do not pretend like other Whites that we like Blacks. The fact that, Blacks look like human beings and act like human beings do not necessarily make them sensible human beings. Hedgehogs are not porcupines and lizards are not crocodiles simply because they look alike. If God wanted us to be equal to the Blacks, he would have created us all of a uniform colour and intellect but he created us differently: Whites, Blacks, Yellow, Rulers and the ruled. Intellectually, we are superior to the Blacks; that has been proven beyond any reasonable doubt over the years. I believe that the Afrikaner is an honest, God fearing person, who has demonstrated practically the right way of being. Nevertheless, it is comforting to know that behind the scenes, Europe, America, Canada, Australia-and all others are behind us in spite of what they say. For diplomatic relations, we all know what language should be used and where. To prove my point, Comrades, does anyone of you know a White country without an investment or interest in South Africa? Who buys our gold? Who buys our diamonds? Who trades with us? Who is helping us develop other nuclear weapon? The very truth is that we are their people and they are our people. It’s a big secret. The strength of our economy is backed by America, Britain, Germany. It is our strong conviction, therefore, that the Black is the raw material for the White man. So Brothers and Sisters, let us join hands together to fight against this Black devil. I appeal to all Afrikaners to come out with any creative means of fighting this war. Surely God cannot forsake his own people whom we are. By now every one of us has seen it practically that the Blacks cannot rule themselves. Give them guns and they will kill each other. They are good in nothing else but making noise, dancing, marrying many wives and indulging in sex. Let us all accept that the Black man is the symbol of poverty, mental inferiority, laziness and emotional incompetence. Isn’t it plausible? therefore that the White man is created to rule the Black man? Come to think of what would happen one day if you woke up and on the throne sat a Kaffir! Can you imagine what would happen to our women? Does anyone of you believe that the Blacks can rule this country? Hence, we have good reasons to let them all-the Mandelas and the others-rot in prison, and I think we should be commended for having kept them alive in spite of what we have at hand with which to finish them off. I wish to announce a number of new strategies that should be put to use to destroy this Black bug. We should now make use of the chemical weapon. Priority number one, we should not by all means allow any more increases of the Black population lest we be choked very soon. I have exciting news that our scientists have come with an efficient stuff. I am sending out more researchers to the field to identify as many venues as possible where the chemical weapons could be employed to combat any further population increases. The hospital is a very strategic opening, for example and should be fully utilised. The food supply channel should be used. We have enveloped excellent slow killing poisons and fertility destroyers. Our only fear is in case such stuff came in to their hands as they are bound to start using it against us if you care to think of the many Blacks working for us in our homes. However, we are doing the best we can to make sure that the stuff remains strictly in our hands. Secondly, most Blacks are vulnerable to money inducements. I have set aside a special fund to exploit this venue. The old trick of divide and rule is still very valid today. Our experts should work day and night to set the Black man against his fellowman. His inferior sense of morals can be exploited beautifully. And here is a creature that lacks foresight. There is a need for us to combat him in long term projections that he cannot suspect. The average Black does not plan his life beyond a year: that stance, for example, should be exploited. My special department is already working round the clock to come out with a long-term operation blueprint. I am also sending a special request to all Afrikaner mothers to double their birth rate. It may be necessary too to set up a population boom industry by putting up centres where we employ and support fully White young men and women to produce children for the nation. We are also investigating the merit of uterus rentals as a possible means of speeding up the growth of our population through surrogate mothers. For the time being, we should also engage a higher gear to make sure that Black men are separated from their women and fines imposed upon married wives who bear illegitimate children. I have a committee working on finding better methods of inciting Blacks against each other and encouraging murders among themselves. Murder cases among Blacks should bear very little punishment in order to encourage them. My scientists have come up with a drug that could be smuggled into their brews to effect slow poisoning results and fertility destruction. Working through drinks and manufacturing of soft drinks geared to the Blacks, could promote the channels of reducing their population. Ours is not a war that we can use the atomic bomb to destroy the Blacks, so we must use our intelligence to effect this. The person-to-person encounter can be very effective. As the records show that the Black man is dying to go to bed with the White woman, here is our unique opportunity. Our Sex Mercenary Squad should go out and camouflage with Apartheid Fighters while doing their operations quietly administering slow killing poison and fertility destroyers to those Blacks they thus befriend. We are modifying the Sex Mercenary Squad by introducing White men who should go for the militant Black woman and any other vulnerable Black woman. We have received a new supply of prostitutes from Europe and America who are desperate and too keen to take up the appointments. My latest appeal is that the maternity hospital operations should be intensified. We are not paying those people to help bring Black babies to this world but to eliminate them on the very delivery moment. If this department worked very efficiently, a great deal could be achieved. These are manifestly racist, demonically-inspired and utterly despicable submissions coming from malevolent, evil, dark, twisted, tormented and ignorant souls. They tell us exactly how many of our detractors view us, even up until today, even if they cannot afford to say so openly. And we must also accept the fact that oftentimes our own behaviour confirms these negative stereotypes. If anyone doubts that, just look at the Nigerian example. The truth is that we take pleasure in persecuting, shaming, killing and destroying one another, we enjoy pulling down our brightest and our best, we willfully and consciously promote and celebrate compromise and mediocrity and we are simply not prepared to fight and die for any worthwhile cause or principle, even when it is in our interest so to do. That is the difference between us and those from other parts of the world. They are ready to pay any price for a better and safer tomorrow for their children but we are not. They will always insist on the best, on enforcing their rights, on jealously guarding their civil liberties, on resisting evil, on fighting persecution and injustice and on preserving the integrity of their civil institutions whilst we are not. Instead we are prepared to settle for anything, compromise with anything and take anything from anyone or any institution. If we wish to progress we must change our attitude, we must discard this slavish mindset and thereby put to shame our detractors and enemies. We must be ready to stand up and insist on our rights and we must be ready to pay the supreme price whilst doing so if that is what is required. We must dig deep and find the required strength and courage and we must, as a people, rise up to where we belong and become what God wants us to be: a great, beautiful, free, prosperous, educated, respected and strong people. We are no less than that and that is our due. To establish and confirm the glory of our continent and to bring honour, self-respect and dignity to every African: that surely is the challenge of our time.