Quotes About Light

Stick a lighted candle up your backside to give yourself that inner glow.

To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be.

I was tired of throwing still more experiences onto the bonfire of my own confusion. It was bright enough already, and cast its light as far as I could see. p 284

Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground.

it is hard to believe when I'm with you that there can be anything as still as solemn as unpleasantly definitive as statuary when right in front of it in the warm New York 4 o'clock light we are drifting back and forth between each other like a tree breathing through its spectacles

The theologian can ask far profounder questions because he knows more about God; by that same knowledge he knows that there are depths that he will never know. But to see why one cannot know more is itself a real seeing; there is a way of seeing the darkness which is a kind of light.

He stands in the kitchen doorway, a black figure surrounded by the yellow light background, the small details of his face unseen from the darkness of the living room. His left shoulder leans slightly against the threshold, a pistol suspended from the left hand, dangling in the yellow space between the hip and the dark.

Before I struck a light one could see the grass and a streak on the horizon. Now it is dark. Now I shall never return home again.

It isn't the growth of a nation that creates a man. It isn't material expansion or monetary development. It comes from inside. When there is nothing there is infinite potential for something. Where there is darkness, light is there to fill it.

Imagine a world without shadows. You cannot touch a shadow, but a world without them is a hard world, and flat.

The influence of the recent past is always overestimated. When we are asked to name the greatest human inventions we tend to think of the telephone, the electric light bulb and the silicon chip rather than the wheel, the plough and the taming of fire.

Moons and years pass by and are gone forever, but a beautiful moment shimmers through life a ray of light.

Supreme serenity still remains the Ideal of great Art. The shapes and transitory forms of life are but stages toward this Ideal, which Christ's religion illuminates with His divine light.

The seekers after knowledge should, of course, not seek worldly knowledge and worldly gain but devote themselves to the denunciation of the world, to the knowledge that is light and intuition, that falls like the rain from heaven and induces man to exhibit a greater fear of God.

The primeval "pen," for instance, is light, and the writing on the well- guarded tablet is a light of God, as the Qur- ân itself was frequently referred to as a light, on good scriptural authority. The light of knowledge, or knowledge and learning being a lamp in the darkness of ignorance and sin came to be used as commonplace metaphors.

Your words are spirit and life. Only say one and he will be healed.

Deep within each of us is a spark of the divine just waiting to be used to light up a dark space.

Un instante placentero y desbordante de vida gloriosa vale más que toda una existencia en las sombras.» Y

It was a dimly glowing mass of pale-blue light, mottled, immense, and terrifying. Even at the first glimpse I knew it was not a sun. No sun can be so blue and so dim. It hurt the eyes to look at it, not because of its brightness. It hurt inside the eyes, up far into the optic track; the pain was in the brain itself.

The history of the human race is a continual struggle from darkness into light. It is, therefore, to no purpose to discuss the use of knowledge; man wants to know, and when he ceases to do so, is no longer a man.

The light shall always rise upon thee after the darkness; and after sorrow, joy shall again visit thy threshold. Nor

Just as every color, by its negation of darkness and its affirmation of light, provides the possibilty of discovering the ray that makes it visible and of tracing this ray back to the luminous source, so all forms, all symbols, all religions, all dogmas, by their negation of error and their affirmation of Truth, makes it possible to follow the ray of Revelation, which is no other than the ray of the Intellect, back to its Divine Source. Frithjof Schuon, Transcendental Unity of Religions

Un animal noble ou une belle fleur sont « intellectuellement » supérieurs à un homme vil. Dieu se révèle à la plante sous la forme de la lumière solaire. La plante se tourne irrésistiblement vers la lumière; elle ne saurait être athée ou impie.

How many Zen masters does it take to screw in a light bulb? The plum tree in the garden!