Light Quotes - Page 9

• Enlightenment doesnt occur from sitting around visualizing images of light, but from integrating the darker aspects of the Self into the conscious personality.

  Carl Jung

  Self, Personality, Sitting

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• Hast thou attuned thyself to the suffering of humanity, O candidate for light?

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Humanity, Suffering, Candidates

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• Never let us be discouraged with ourselves. It is not when we are conscious of our faults that we are the most wicked; on the contrary, we are less so. We see by a brighter light; and let us remember for our consolation, that we never perceive our sins till we begin to cure them.

  Francois Fenelon

  Christian, Wicked, Faults

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• ...in my head, a person who was out walking and walking in the dark comes to a little house with a light on. Waits at the door for a moment, and then goes in finds such a welcome that she stays.

  Elizabeth Berg

  Dark, Doors, House

  Elizabeth Berg (2002). “True To Form”, p.108, Simon and Schuster

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• Wolves together stand howling soft and loud at light, singing family songs.

  Sue Thoele

  Song, Singing, Together

  Sue Patton Thoele (1998). “Freedoms After Fifty”, p.65, Conari Press

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• And the day climbs down from its blue loft-bed on a slanting ladder of sunbeams, pauses a moment between the trees, airy-light, young.

  Hans Børli

  Blue, Tree, Bed

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• We find the light only after total defeat of our attempts to deceive and outwit it.

  Vernon Howard

  Defeat, Deceiving

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• Let there be no mincing of comparisons in this assertion. Not Turner, not Monet, painted so directly blinding shafts of sunlight as has this Spaniard.

  James Huneker

  Monet, Turner, Spaniards

  James Huneker (1910). “Promenades of an Impressionist”

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• Truth is within ourselves; it takes no rise
  From outward things, whate'er you may believe.
  There is an inmost centre in us all,
  Where truth abides in fulness; and around,
  Wall upon wall, the gross flesh hems it in,
  This perfect, clear perception-which is truth.
  A baffling and perverting carnal mesh
  Binds it, and makes all error: and to know
  Rather consists in opening out a way
  Whence the imprisoned splendour may escape,
  Than in effecting entry for a light
  Supposed to be without.

  Robert Browning

  Wall, Believe, Errors

  Robert Browning (1830). “An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry”, p.35

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• Since We have created you all from one same substance it is incumbent on you to be even as one soul, to walk with the same feet, eat with the same mouth and dwell in the same land, that from your inmost being, by your deeds and actions, the signs of oneness and the essence of detachment may be made manifest. Such is My counsel to you, O concourse of light!

  Bahá'u'lláh

  Land, Essence, Oneness

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• To me gender is not physical at all, but is altogether insubstantial. It is soul, perhaps, it is talent, it is taste, it is environment, it is how one feels, it is light and shade, it is inner music.

  Jan Morris

  Soul, Shade, Taste

  Jan Morris (2011). “Conundrum”, p.26, Faber & Faber

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• This place of mine never is entered by humans come for conversation, only by the mute moon's light shafts that slip in between the trees.

  Saigyō

  Moon, Tree, Conversation

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• Lethargics are to be laid in the light, and exposed to the rays of the sun for the disease is gloom.

  Aretaeus of Cappadocia

  Rays, Disease, Sun

  Aretaeus (of Cappadocia.), Francis Adams (1972). “Aretaiou Kappadokou Ta Sōzomena: The Extant Works of Aretaeus, the Cappadocian”

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• Earth-treading stars that make dark heaven light

  William Shakespeare

  Stars, Dark, Heaven

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Twenty-one Volumes, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are Added Notes”, p.28

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• I'm being followed by a moon shadow
  Leaping and hopping on a moon shadow...
  Did it take long to find me, I asked the faithful light
  ...and are you going to stay the night?

  Cat Stevens

  Moon, Night, Long

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• Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.

  Douglas Adams

  Funny, Science, Law

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.622, Pan Macmillan

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• I cannot write in verse, for I am no poet. I cannot arrange the parts of speech with such art as to produce effects of light and shade, for I am no painter. Even by signs and gestures I cannot express my thoughts and feelings, for I am no dancer. But I can do so by means of sounds, for I am a musician.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Music, Art, Mean

  Letter to Leopold Mozart, 8 Nov. 1777

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• The transcendental light permeates your being and washes away impurity. All those different selves which are limited and binding and hurting are washed away.

  Frederick Lenz

  Hurt, Buddhism, Self

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• Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.

  Meister Eckhart

  Sympathy, Depression, Darkness

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• Now I'm free of him and I'm light as a feather. There's no weight holding me down; I'm ready to spread my wings and fly.

  Larry Holmes

  Wings, Boxing, Weight

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• Do not Bodies and Light act mutually upon one another; that is to say, Bodies upon Light in emitting, reflecting, refracting and inflecting it, and Light upon Bodies for heating them, and putting their parts into a vibrating motion wherein heat consists?

  Isaac Newton

  Science, Body, Heat

  Sir Isaac Newton (2016). “Opticks: A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light”, p.210, Library of Alexandria

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• Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

  Bruce Lee

  Love, Life, Friendship

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Artist of Life”, p.96, Tuttle Publishing

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• Darkness is where we begin and where we end. We don't usually see light traveling in darkness of space because we only can see its reflection on substance.

  Ala Bashir

  Reflection, Space, Darkness

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• The prayer of Ajax was for light.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Prayer, Ajax

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.40

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• Everything is made of light

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Made

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