Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.
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Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.
Sometimes it is better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.
Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which are: Darkness, Light, Solidity and Colour, Form and Position, Distance and Propinquity, Motion and Rest.
Meditation is the royal road to the attainment of freedom, a mysterious ladder that reaches from earth to heaven, darkness to light, mortality to Immortality.
The night of December 25, to which date the Nativity of Christ was ultimately assigned, was exactly that of the birth of the Persian savior Mithra, who, as an incarnation of eternal light, was born the night of the winter solstice (then dated December 25) at midnight, the instant of the turn of the year from increasing darkness to light.
Positive thoughts and prayer have been the best means available, since the beginning of time, to transform darkness to light.
Ignorance may be bliss, but it certainly is not freedom, except in the minds of those who prefer darkness to light and chains to liberty. The more true information we can acquire, the better for our enfranchisement.
While everything around me is ever changing, ever dying, there is underlying that change a living power that is changeless, that holds all together, that creates, dissolves and recreates.... For I can see in the midst of death, life persists, in the midst of untruth, truth persists, in the midst of darkness light persists.
since some people had told me that I was ugly, I always preferred shade to the sun, darkness to light
Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.
The black moment is the moment when the real message of transformation is going to come. At the darkest moment comes the light.
This horror will grow mild, this darkness light.
We don't want to feel less when we have finished a book; we want to feel that new possibilities of being have been opened to us. We don't want to close a book with a sense that life is totally unfair and that there is no light in the darkness; we want to feel that we have been given illumination.
Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.
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