Quotes on Light

I remember vividly my student days, spending hours at the light microscope, turning endlessly the micrometric screw, and gazing at the blurred boundary which concealed the mysterious ground substance where the secret mechanisms of cell life might be found.

A warrior balances solitude and dependence.

You can't drop concepts. You can only shine a little flashlight on them as you do inquiry, an you see that what you thought was true wasn't. And when the truth is seen, there's nothing you can do to make the lie true for you again.

The warrior of the light has a destiny to fulfill.

He tries to show each person how much they are capable of achieving.

The moment that he begins to walk along it, the warrior of the light recognizes the path.

On some nights, he has nowhere to sleep, on others he suffers from insomnia. "That's just how it is," thinks the warrior. "I was the one who chose to walk this path."

The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near.

Let the straight flower bespeak its purpose in straightness - to seek the light._x000D_ _x000D_ Let the crooked flower bespeak its purpose in crookedness - to seek the light._x000D_ _x000D_ Let the crookedness and straightness bespeak the light.

Still ours the dance, the feast, the glorious Psalm, The mystic lights of emblem, and the Word.

You would know the secret of death. But how shall you find it unless you seek it in the heath of life? The owl whose night-bound eyes are blind unto the day cannot unveil the mystery of light. If you would indeed behold the spirit of death, open your heart wide unto the body of life. For life and death are one, even as the river and sea are one. For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun?

Art is both the taking and giving of beauty, the turning out to the light of the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit.

From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things, and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all.

All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.

Your honesty is not to be based either on religion or policy. Both your religion and policy must be based on it. Your honesty must be based, as the sun is, in vacant heaven; poised, as the lights in the firmament, which have rule over the day and over the night.

The friend of silence comes close to God. In secret he converses with him and receives his light.

This therefore is Mathematics: She reminds you of the invisible forms of the soul; She gives life to her own discoveries; She awakens the mind and purifies the intellect; She brings light to our intrinsic ideas; She abolishes oblivion and ignorance which are ours by birth.

I picture the vast realm of the sciences as an immense landscape scattered with patches of dark and light. The goal towards which we must work is either to extend the boundaries of the patches of light, or to increase their number. One of these tasks falls to the creative genius; the other requires a sort of sagacity combined with perfectionism.

The greatest discoveries are those that shed light unto ourselves.

Many a maiden,_x000D_ With white feet glancing light as air, _x000D_ Made happy music through the gloom.

The subliminal mind receives and remembers all those touches that delight the soul. Our soul takes joy in this right touching by the Essence of all experience.