Light Quotes - Page 72

It is in the contrast of light and dark that design happens.

Grieve not because thou understand-not life's mystery; behind the veil is concealed many a delight.

Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everythiong else.

First of all there will appear to you, swifter than lightning, the luminous splendor of the colorless light of Emptiness, and that will surround you on all sides. ...Try to submerge yourself in that light, giving up all belief in a separate self, all attachment to your illusory ego.

The cigarettes you light one after another won’t help you forget her.

Never doubt God in the darkness what he has given us in the light.

Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintry light.

Could you understand the meaning of light if there were no darkness to point the contrast? Day and night, life and death, love and hatred, since none of these things can have any being at all apart from the existence of the other, you can no more separate them than you can separate the two sides of a coin.

Bodies have their own light which they consume to live: they burn, they are not lit from the outside.

We regard prayer no longer as a duty which must be performed, but rather as a privilege which is to be enjoyed, a rare delight that is always revealing some new beauty.

Who speaks of art speaks of poetry. There is not art without a poetic aim. There is a species of emotion particular to painting. There is an effect that results from a certain arrangement of colors, of lights, of shadows. It is this that one calls the music of painting

The principal person in a picture is light.

Let thy light shine, then, in dark places.

Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure.

Practice and enlightenment are not two.

Wandering in a vast forest at night, I have only a faint light to guide me. A stranger appears and says to me: 'My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.' This stranger is a theologian.

I would say any behavior that is not the status quo is interpreted as insanity, when, in fact, it might actually be enlightenment. Insanity is sorta in the eye of the beholder.

In order to develop love - universal love, cosmic love, whatever you would like to call it one must accept the whole situation of life as it is, both the light and the dark, the good and the bad. One must open oneself to life, communicate with it.

I invite you, wholeheartedly, to read books that remind you of your highest self and emancipate you from mental slavery or false beliefs and illusions. The more you invest in attracting books that resonate with the frequency of your true self, the more light you will bring to the world.

If there is always light, you don’t experience light anymore. You have to have the rhythm of light and darkness.

In reality the workings of your governing system are opaque and covert, while hiding in the chattering spotlight of an ostensible transparency, even though the ultimate objective is clear.

I might really have gone round the bend. I mean people who get visions and see a gigantic light descend on them from the sky can't be all there but if so I feel mighty happy. If one is happy and cracked it's much better than being unhappy and sane.

Man is even as steel, the essence of which is hidden: through admonition and explanation, good counsel and education, that essence will be brought to light. If, however, he be allowed to remain in his original condition, the corrosion of lusts and appetites will effectively destroy him.

Don't practice for cosmetic beauty, practice for cosmic beauty. Practice for inner beauty and inner light.

If you must use dumbbells for daily training, use heavy ones with fewer repetitions rather than light bells with numerous repetitions