Quotes on Light

Pride is the utter poverty of soul disguised as riches, imaginary light where in fact there is darkness.

Beneath the light, the river and hills are beautiful, The spring breeze bears the fragrance of flowers and grass. The mud has thawed, and swallows fly around. On the warm sand, mandarin ducks are sleeping.

My Umi said shine your light on the world, shine your light for the world to see

If the Beautiful One is not inside you, then what is that Light hidden under your cloak?

Filling the conscious mind with ideal conceptions is a characteristic of Western theosophy, but not the confrontation with the Shadow and the world of darkness. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable and therefore not popular.

You have no need to travel anywhere - journey within yourself. Enter a mine of rubies and bathe in the splendor of your own light.

Wakefulness is not a destination but a song the human heart keeps singing, the way birds keep singing at the first sign of light.

Today too, amid so much darkness, we need to see the light of hope and to be men and women who bring hope to others. To protect creation, to protect every man and every woman, to look upon them with tenderness and love, is to open up a horizon of hope; it is to let a shaft of light break through the heavy clouds; it is to bring the warmth of hope!

The word "photography" can be interpreted as "writing with light" or "drawing with light." Some photographers are producing beautiful photographs by drawing with light.. Some other photographers are trying to tell something with their photographs. They are writing with light.

Spiritual light rarely comes to those who merely sit in the darkness waiting for someone to flick the switch.

Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world all at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach... One of the most calming and powerful actions you can do to intervene in a stormy world is to stand up and show your soul. Soul on deck shines like gold in dark times. The light of the soul throws sparks, can send up flares, builds signal fires, causes proper matters to catch fire.

Journeys bring power and love back into you. If you can't go somewhere, move in the passageways of the self. They are like shafts of light, always changing, and you change when you explore them.

We're like lightbulbs. If bliss starts growing inside you, it's like a light; it affects the environment.

Someday, in the distant future, our grand-children' s grand-children will develop a new equivalent of our classrooms. They will spend many hours in front of boxes with fires glowing within. May they have the wisdom to know the difference between light and knowledge.

It is horrific even to think that there are children, victims of abortion, who will never see the light of day

The flame of the diya, or lamp, reminds us that light will ultimately triumph over darkness.

Light the incense! You have to burn to be fragrant.

A light here required a shadow there.

Your task? _x000D_ To work with all the passion of your being to acquire an inner light.

No one in the final analysis really fails to become a Christian because of lack of arguments; he fails to become a Christian because he loves darkness rather than light and wants nothing to do with God.

Happy are the painters, for they shall not be lonely. Light and colour, peace and hope, will keep them company to the end of the day.