Quotes on Light

Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain; And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night.

The moon rose, an opalescent goddess tipping light from her harsh maternal scimitar.

A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry; But were we burdened with light weight of pain, As much or more we should ourselves complain.

A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.

Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.

Now, learning how to make a movie is something you can figure out in about an afternoon. The physics of it, the marks, the lights, etc. What's hard to do is to suspend your own feelings of self consciousness. The natural actors can do that; they can become part of a characterization and learn how to maintain it.

One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

Education is the movement from darkness to light.

The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.

There are infinite shadings of light and shadows and colors... it's an extraordinarily subtle language. Figuring out how to speak that language is a lifetime job.

The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.

Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.

In a World where people are surrounded by darkness, ignorance and fear, it is a sign of hope to be celebrating Islam's message of peace and light, and the last great Messenger, born and chosen to deliver them to all mankind.

...impregnation will be regarded in an entirely different manner, more in the light of a surgical operation, so that it will be thought not ladylike to have it performed in the natural manner.

God is love. Wraith is how His love appears to us when we sin or rebel or run away from Him. The very light that is meant to help us appears to us as our enemy when we seek the darkness.

If you think all this is going on, all these gigantic fields of gravity and light with you in mind, then you really do have a self-centredness problem.

The Spirit of God, I realized, is exhaustless Bliss; His body is countless tissues of light.

The light of consciousness has no mind to change or alter anything. When you start to see the light that you really are, the light waking up in you, the radiance, you realize it has no intention to change you. It has no intention to harmonize. It has no agenda. It just happens. The Truth is the only thing you'll ever run into that has no agenda. Everything else will have an agenda.

I'm being followed by a moon shadow_x000D_ _x000D_ Leaping and hopping on a moon shadow..._x000D_ _x000D_ Did it take long to find me, I asked the faithful light_x000D_ _x000D_ ...and are you going to stay the night?

Every day a new picture is painted and framed, held up for half an hour, in such lights as the Great Artist chooses, and then withdrawn, and the curtain falls. And then the sun goes down, and long the afterglow gives light.