There are times when passion burns so fiercely inside, it becomes a taskmaster with a stinging whip. From where does darkness attain such power to consume the light of a human soul?

Darkness has no power of its own. It is no more than the absence of light, and your soul is pure Divine light.

But G‑d has granted power to the darkness to challenge you, to awaken the innermost depths of your soul.

So that as soon as you will stand up and say, “My soul is not the chattel of any taskmaster! I have free will to choose as I please, and I choose life!”
—before that instant is over, the tyrant inside is no more; gone, as a shadow vanishes before the light.