Quotes about light
light cities ideas
I wonder about silence. Also about darkness. I love the idea that city lights are a "conspiracy" against higher thoughts. Terry Tempest Williams
light two voice
To hold silence and to be silenced are two very different experiences. And so another theme emerges, that of light and shadow. When we share our voice, who benefits? When we withhold, who benefits? And what are the consequences and costs of both?
light long shadow
Some shadows are so long, they arrive before the light. Terry Pratchett
light together plot
You can't remember the plot of the Dr Who movie because it didn't have one, just a lot of plot holes strung together. It did have a lot of flashing lights, though.
light tunnels black
All was black, gloomy and awful. There was no light at the end of the tunnel - or if there was, it was an oncoming train.
light have-faith doe
As far as belief goes, postmodernism prefers to travel light: it has beliefs, to be sure, but it does not have faith Terry Eagleton
light evil giving
Faith and feelings are the warm marrow of evil. Unlike reason, faith and feelings provide no boundary to limit any delusion, any whim. They are virulent poison, giving the numbing illusion of moral sanction to every depravity ever hatched. Faith and feelings are the darkness to reason’s light. Reason is the very substance of truth itself. The glory that is life is wholly embraced through reason. In rejecting it, in rejecting reason, one embraces death. Terry Goodkind
light forgiving rays
Help each other. Love everyone. Every leaf. Every ray of light. Forgive. Terrence Malick
light quests garbage
In her glamorous quest for the darkest light and the lowest high, she now found herself wallowing on the bottom of a filthy garbage bin. Terri Blackstock
light rude naked
I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action. Tennessee Williams
light elbows cigarette
Jim lights a cigarette and leans indolently back on his elbow smiling at Laura with a warmth and charm which lights her inwardly with altar candles.
light kitchen stronger
And then the searchlight which had been turned on the world was turned off again and never for one moment since has there been any light that's stronger than this-kitchen-candle...
light able anticipation
You will ride the Tao toward the concrescence and will be able to live in the light of its anticipation. Terence McKenna
light tumbling sound
These things which are made of light and grammar and sound that come chirping and squealing and tumbling toward you. 'Hooray! Welcome! You're here!', and in my case, 'You send so many and you come so rarely!'
light speech steps
Say it again,” he says. “That whole drawn-out speech?” I remember something about a solar system, but I’m too light-headed to recite the entire thing all over again. He steps closer. “No. The part about you fallin’ for me. Simone Elkeles
light knowing soul
If we concentrate our attention on trying to solve a problem of geometry, and if at the end of an hour we are no nearer to doing so than at the beginning, we have nevertheless been making progress each minute of that hour in another more mysterious dimension. Without knowing or feeling it, this apparent barren affort has brought more light into the soul. Simone Weil
light needs bread
Workers need poetry more than bread. They need that their life should be a poem. They need some light from eternity. Religion alone can be the source of such poetry.
light choices plant
We are like plants that have the one choice of being in or out of the light.
light faults inability
There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
light tunnels choices
For me, as I began to see the light at the end of the tunnel, I became aware of how on an instinctive level I made choices to cover myself. Rene Auberjonois
light forever steps
Every step I take in light is mine forever. Swami Vivekananda
light soul littles
Come out into the broad light of day, come out from the little narrow paths, for how can the infinite soul rest content to live and die in small ruts?
light shining tough
My light shines when things get really tough. Tippi Hedren
light water shadow
Your shadow stealthily leaves nothing of where you go, like a poisoned needle that sews together my footsteps. Your light pliantly strikes the water tower, like a lightning bolt that severs the source of my life. -Soifon Tite Kubo
light silence blossoming
Inner silence is not just the absence of thoughts. No! Silence is the blossoming of our indomitable inner will. Silence is our inner wisdom-light. Sri Chinmoy
light soul path
But few are those who tread the sunlit path; Only the pure in soul can walk in light. Sri Aurobindo
light body consciousness
One can see light above the head; that indicates a consciousness outside the body. But that itself is not the Truth-Consciousness or Vijnana. But much light descending from there illumines this consciousness.
light veils may
There is a veil between the Supermind above and the lower Prakriti below - the veil of ingrained formations. This veil may completely withdraw or be partially withdrawn. Thus even if there is some little opening, with the contact of Light from above the lower nature will get slowly changed.
light self people
India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to do for herself and the human peoples. And that which must seek now to awake is not an anglicised oriental people, docile pupil of the West and doomed to repeat the cycle of the occident's success and failure, but still the ancient immemorable Shakti recovering her deepest self, lifting her head higher towards the supreme source of light and strength and turning to discover the complete meaning and a vaster form of her Dharma.
light goal intuition
Transform reason into ordered intuition; let all thyself be light. This is thy goal.
light meditation infinite
What is meditation? Meditation is our conscious awareness of something vast and infinite within us. Meditation grants us Peace, Light and Bliss.
light wings meditation
When we meditate we expand, spreading our wings like a bird, trying to enter consciously into Infinity, Eternity and Immortality, welcoming them into our aspiring consciousness. We see, feel and grow into the entire universe of Light-Delight.
light your-smile matter
No matter how fleeting Your smile is, Your smile is the very beginning Of your wisdom-light.