Light Quotes - Page 173

Light and darkness cannot occupy the same space at the same time.

I'm a born entertainer. When I open the fridge door and the light goes on, I burst into song.

Worry is the warning light that shows I’ve stopped looking to God to meet my needs.

I've heard it said that when you die you enter a room of bright light, and that you can smell bread baking just around the corner.

how we rolled up the carpet so we could dance, and the days were bright red, and every time we kissed there was another apple to slice into pieces. Look at the light through the windowpane. That means it's noon, that means we're inconsolable. Tell me how all this, and love too, will ruin us. These our bodies, possessed by light. Tell me we'll never get used to it.

I would say that the West is very young, it's very corrupt. We're not very wise. And I think we're hopeful that there is a place that is ancient and wise and open and filled with light.

We see light, not dark. But it is in the dark that we feel goblins and ghosts.

The more your appreciate yourself the more you will have the energy from within.Stop sourcing for external energry source to charge yourself. Seek the light within and it will brighten you more, remember you truely are one amazing, beautiful, gorgeous soul.

A haiku is the expression of a temporary enlightenment, in which we see into the life of things.

No question that the spotlight on Darfur has, for all intents and purposes, disappeared. And that's deeply problematic, because it hasn't disappeared because Darfur has been solved.

We must be courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.

Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in my thoughts any occurrence of special good fortune, I have enjoyed perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear.

The greatest discoveries are those that shed light unto ourselves.

I have been a photographer all my life....and have made photographs of many things and for many reasons. But one thing that becomes more and more apparent is that I am simply only as good as my next photograph. That's the one that counts the most....For this reason I find it a delight to face a new day, and to develop that new roll of film. It's a great way to live.

Total relaxation is the ultimate. That's the moment when one becomes a buddha. That is the moment of realization, enlightenment, christ-consciousness. You cannot be totally relaxed right now. At the innermost core a tension will persist.

If you wish to see the truth, then hold no opinion for or against.

If my devils are to leave me, I'm afraid my angels will take flight as well.

Faith is a bird that can see the light when it is dawn and starts singing in the dark.

Faith is not a light which scatters all our darkness, but a lamp which guides our steps in the night and suffices for the journey.

And with a little sense of humor we can say that there are Christian bats who prefer the shadows to the light of the presence of the Lord.

We are still awaiting Easter; we are not yet standing in the full light but walking toward it full of trust.

For, in the language of Heraclitus, the virtuous soul is pure and unmixed light, springing from the body as a flash of lightning darts from the cloud. But the soul that is carnal and immersed in sense, like a heavy and dank vapor, can with difficulty be kindled, and caused to raise its eyes heavenward.

What is at issue is the conversion of the mind from the twilight of error to the truth, that climb up into the real world which we shall call true philosophy.

In our civilization, there are permanent forms which are part of every epoch and every culture. They are not especially difficult to detect. A minimal knowledge of physics, astrophysics, and perhaps mathematics, brings to light certain patterns that make these subjects easier to understand. It is striking to see the extreme similarity between these scientific propositions and the forms that recur in all times, places and civilizations.

Although we all possess the seeds of great love and compassion, without the light of the enlightened one's wisdom and the waters of their compassion these seeds would never spout.