Light Quotes - Page 159

Death and Light are everywhere, always, and they begin, end, strive, attend, into and upon the Dream of the Nameless that is the world, burning words within Samsara, perhaps to create a thing of beauty.

Photographs are the results of a diminution of solar energy, and the camera is an entropic machine for recording gradual loss of light.

...The task is overwhelming, and the chance is slight. We must take the chance or die.

A true healer helps you to remember and reconnect consciously with your inner light.

Reason is the light, the sun of the brain. It is the compass of the mind, the ever-constant Northern Star, the mountain peak that lifts itself above all clouds.

No enlightened person would deny its premise, but as an ongoing program it is monotonous, limited, locked in a perception of victimization.

Must in death your daylight finish? My sun sets to rise again.

At the exact moment any decision seems to be being made, it's usually long after the real decision was actually made--like light we see emitted from stars.

Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved. It has arrested ten thousand lightning flashes of genius, which, unless thus fixed and arrested, might have been as bright, but would have also been as quickly passing and perishing, as the lightning.

Ninety isn't old. You're old when your doctor doesn't X-ray you any more - he just holds you up to the light!

Let the world burn through you. Throw the prism light, white hot, on paper.

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

It is one soul which animates all men.

It is rare to find a man who believes in his own thoughts or speaks that which he is created to say. As nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing, so nothing is more rare in any man than an act of his own...feel yourself, and be not daunted by things...The light by which we see this world comes out from the soul of the observer.

The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.

The fountain has not played itself out, the Flame still shines, the River still flows, the Spring still bubbles forth, the Light has not faded. But between us and It, there is a veil which is more like fifty feet of solid concrete. Deus absconditus. Or we have absconded.

Where, if not in the Divine Mercy, can the world find refuge and the light of hope?

Continue to walk in the faith and, faithful to the mandate that has been entrusted to you, go out with solicitude and joy toward all creatures and pass on to them the gifts of salvation...Let yourselves be guided by the Holy Spirit to be the leaven of new life, salt of the earth and light of the world.

Today Christmas has become a commercial celebration, whose bright lights hide the mystery of God’s humility, which in turn calls us to humility and simplicity. Let us ask the Lord to help us see through the superficial glitter of this season, and to discover behind it the child in the stable in Bethlehem, so as to find true joy and true light.

The new Pope knows that his task is to make the light of Christ shine before men and women of world - not his own light, but that of Christ.

Like all good ruins, I look better by moonlight.

There is no life so humble that, if it be true and genuinely human and obedient to God, it may not hope to shed some of His light. There is no life so meager that the greatest and wisest of us can afford to despise it. We cannot know at what moment it may flash forth with the life of God.

The sun, centre and sire of light, The keystone of the world-built arch of heaven.

The fear for oneself, that one can do something about. Upon it one can turn the light of awareness. But when one is no longer worrying about oneself, then the fear comes for other people and, after that, for the world. There are no fearless people, only fearless moments.

Moon appears to shine and light the sky with the help of some fireflies, wonder how they have the power to shine?