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Quotes About Light

When one hungers for light it is only because one's knowledge of the dark is so deep.
~ Terry Tempest Williams
When you shine a bright light, a secret loses all its power.
~ Tess Gerritsen
her beam revealing ancient brick walls and the faint glimmer
~ Tess Gerritsen
If one believes in the light, one has to believe in the darkness as well.
~ Tess Gerritsen
Can there be joy and laughter when always the world is ablaze? Enshrouded in darkness, should you not seek light?
~ Thích Nh?t H?nh
According to the creation story in the biblical book of Genesis, God said, "Let there be light." I like to imagine that light replied, saying, "God, I have to wait for my twin brother, darkness, to be with me. I can't be there without the darkness." God asked, "Why do you need to wait? Darkness is there." Light answered, "In that case, then I am also already there.
~ Thích Nh?t H?nh
But work is life only when done in mindfulness. otherwise, one becomes life the person who lives as though dead. We need to light our own torch in order to carry on. But the life of each one of us is connected with the life of those around us. If we know how to live in mindfulness, if we know how to preserve and care for our own mind and heart then thanks to that our brothers and sisters will also know how to live in mindfulness.
~ Thích Nh?t H?nh
Outwardness does to inwardness what light does to darkness: it chases it away.
~ The Arbinger Institute
Here comes the sun, and I say It's alright
~ The Beatles
you carry in yourself all the obstacles necessary to make your realization perfect. Always you will see that within you the shadow and the light are equal: you have an ability, you also have the negation of this ability. But, if you discover a very black hole, a thick shadow, be sure that somewhere in you there is a great light. It is up to you to know how to use the one to realize the other.
~ The Mother
Turn your mind completely away from your difficulty, concentrate exclusively on the Light and the Force coming from above; let the Lord do for your body whatever He pleases. Hand over to Him totally the entire responsibility of your physical being. ref. Words Of The Mother, vol 15, p.150
~ The Mother
Turn your mind completely away from your difficulty, concentrate exclusively on the Light and the Force coming from above; let the Lord do for your body whatever He pleases. Hand over to Him totally the entire responsibility of your physical being. Words Of The Mother, vol 15, p.150
~ The Mother
Der Gast Das Kind ist krank zum Sterben, Die Lampe giebt trägen Schein, Die Mutter spricht: mir ist es Als wären wir nicht allein. Der Vater sucht zu lächeln, Doch im Herzen pocht's ihm bang, Stiller wird's und stiller, - Die Nacht ist gar zu lang. Nun scheint der Tag ins Fenster, Die Vögel singen so klar; Die Beiden wußten lange, Wer der Gast gewesen war.
~ Theodor Fontane
First give them beauty. Then give them darkness.
~ Theodora Goss
Every person according to his light, said Ames You must help the world express itself. Use will make your powers endure...
~ Theodore Dreiser
Darkness is always trying to overcome the light and what we know from Advent and from the resurrection is that darkness cannot overcome the light. And that is a truth that can carry you into bliss and hope all the days of your life. (p. 50)
~ Theodore J. Nottingham
Dark, dark my light, and darker my desire. My soul, like some heat-maddened summer fly, Keeps buzzing at the sill. Which I is I?
~ Theodore Roethke
A house for wisdom, a field for revelation. Speak to the stars, and the stars answer. At first the visible obscures: Go where the light is.
~ Theodore Roethke
She knows the speech of light, and makes it plain A lively thing can come to life again.
~ Theodore Roethke
True love is like the sun, shining with its own light, and offering that light to everyone.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Forgetfulness is the darkness, mindfulness is the light.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
To return home, to see into one's own nature, is the end aimed at by the practitioner, But how is one to see into one's own nature? It is necessary to bring light to one's existence, to live life, to render present and permanent the awareness of being. Put in another way, it is necessary that one sees the cyprus in the courtyard. If one does not see the presence of the cyprus in his own garden, how can one see into his own nature?
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
It's impossible not to dream of Greg Hardy vs. Jon Jones for the heavyweight title after he's done finishing off the light heavyweight division.
~ Greg Hardy
Light is what gives joy to buildings.
~ Jaquelin T. Robertson