Quotes About Light

The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.

Time and space are but physiological colors which the eye makes, but the soul is light; where it is, is day; where it was, is night; and history is an impertinence and an injury, if it be any thing more than a cheerful apologue or parable of my being and becoming.

It is one light which beams out of a thousand stars. It is one soul which animates all men.

The world we live in is but thickened light.

There is no object so foul that intense light will not make beautiful.

We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.

The dull pray; the geniuses are light mockers.

On him the light of star and moon Shall fall with purer radiance down... Him Nature giveth for defence His formidable innocencn; The mounting sap, the shells, the sea, All spheres, all stonse, his helpers be...

There is no object so foul that intense light will not make beautiful. And the stimulus it affords to the sense, and a sort of infinitude which it hath, like space and time, make all matter gay. Even the corpse has its own beauty.

as the eye is the best composer, so light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make beautiful. And the stimulus it affords to the sense, and a sort of infinitude which it hath, like space and time, make all matter gay. Even the corpse has its own beauty.

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in our own sunshine.

For it is a fire that kindling its first embers in the narrow nook of a private bosom, caught from a wandering spark out of another private heart, glows and enlarges until it warms and beams upon multitudes of men and women, upon the universal heart of all, and so lights up the whole world and all nature with its generous flames.

The eye was placed where one ray should fall, that it might testify of that particular ray.

We know more from nature than we can at will communicate. Its light flows into the mind evermore, and we forget its presence.

for the universe becomes transparent, and the light of higher laws

Most of the shadows of life are caused by standing in our own sunshine.

With a geometry of sunbeams, the soul lays the foundations of nature.

Transcendentalists believe that our minds are always open to a new inflowing of light and power from the Source. This is called inspiration.

As the air I breathe is drawn from the great repositories of nature, as the light on my book is yielded by a star a hundred millions of miles distant, as the poise of my body depends on the equilibrium of centrifugal and centripetal forces, so the hours should be instructed by the ages, and the ages explained by the hours. Of the universal mind each individual man is one more incarnation.

The ray of light passes invisible through space, and only when it falls on an object is it seen.

w]e are optimists when the sun shines

We're being trained through our incarnations--trained to seek love, trained to seek light, trained to see the grace in suffering.

In India when we meet and part we often say, "Namasté," which means: I honor the place in you where the entire universe resides; I honor the place in you of love, of light, of truth, of peace. I honor the place within you where, if you are in that place in you, and I am in that place in me, there is only one of us. Namasté

That thought brought enormous gratitude for the moment of light and breath I was living—how sweet, how rare, to be given a body in which to move about this world!