I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.
We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone and as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give others permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
What is to give light must endure burning.
Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.
My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light!
We can do no great things-only small things with great love.
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
Ring the bells that still can ring.
You go to pray; to become a bonfire, a living flame, giving light and heat.
Conflicts create the fire of affects and emotions; and like every fire it has two aspects: that of burning and that of giving light.
A lighthouse is not interested in who gets its light! It just gives it without thinking! Giving light is its nature!
This morning take a few minutes to reflect on how you give of yourself to the world. Often we get caught up in the frenzy of buying and giving things. Look at the ways you give appreciation, friendship, energy, time, love, and affection, and give of your own special talents and abilities throughout the year. Acknowledge yourself for having enriched the lives of others. Spend some time loving yourself for the giving light that you are.
When you are the Spirit, you are like a brilliant diamond, which is giving light by itself.
The way of fortune is like the milky way in the sky; which is a meeting, or knot, of a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together : so are there a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.
The meditation I am talking about is not a meditation on something. If you light a lamp and remove all the objects surrounding it, the lamp will still go on giving light. In the same way, if you remove all objects from your consciousness, all thoughts, all imagination, what will happen? – only consciousness will remain.
Moon, worn thin to the width of a quill,/ In the dawn clouds flying,/ How good to go, light into light, and still/ Giving light, dying.
We should be shining lamps, giving light to all around us.
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