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• From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things, and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sunset, Shining, Sunrise

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.57, Coyote Canyon Press

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• Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light.

  Groucho Marx

  Love, Funny, Life

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• The gates made of light swing open. You see in.

  Rumi

  Swings, Made, Gates

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• No one lights a lamp in order to hide it behind the door: the purpose of light is to create more light, to open people's eyes, to reveal the marvels around.

  Paulo Coelho

  Beauty, Eye, Doors

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• Spirit is matter seen in a stronger light.

  L. P. Jacks

  Stronger, Matter, Spirit

  "Near the Brink: Observations of a Nonagenarian". Book by Lawrence Pearsall Jacks, p. 17, 1952.

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• Light is the shadow of God.

  Thomas Browne

  Shadow

  Sir Thomas Browne (2012). “Religio Medici and Urne-Buriall”, p.152, New York Review of Books

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  Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

  Jim Rohn

  Wisdom, Greatness, Two

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Mar 17, 2017

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• The real us is pure love, pure light

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Real, Four Agreements, Pathos

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• Virtue - even attempted virtue - brings light; indulgence brings fog.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Fog, Virtue

  C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.89, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others.

  Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

  Thank You, Appreciation, Teacher

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• Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.

  Helen Keller

  Softball, Faith, Inspiration

  Helen Keller (2011). “To Live, to Think, to Hope: Inspirational Quotes by Helen Keller”, p.60, Matthew Gordon

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• In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.

  Blaise Pascal

  Life, Faith, Christian

  "Pensées" by Blaise Pascal, 1669.

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• Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light?

  Maurice Freehill

  Fear, Children, Dark

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• I always think of shade as being full of light. That is why I like to use the word shade rather than light and shadow. Shade seems to play over the thing, envelop it, better define it, while shadow seems to fall on the thing and stain the surface with darks.

  John French Sloan

  Fall, Thinking, Play

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• Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.
  Aim above morality.
  Be not simply good;
  be good for something.
  All fables, indeed, have their morals; but the innocent enjoy the story. Let nothing come between you and the light. Respect men and brothers only. When you travel to the Celestial City, carry no letter of introduction. When you knock, ask to see God

  Henry David Thoreau

  Brother, Men, Cities

  Henry David Thoreau (1894). “The Writings of Henry David Thoreau”

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• Light is not so much something that reveals, as it is itself the revelation.

  James Turrell

  Vision, Revelations, Awe

  James Turrell, Julia Brown, Craig E. Adcock, Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, Calif.) (1985). “Occluded front, James Turrell”, Lapis Pr

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• One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

  Carl Jung

  Love Life, Suicidal, Knowledge

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Gerhard Adler, Michael Scott Montague Fordham (1973). “The Collected Works of C.G. Jung: Alchemical studies”

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• Where there is much light, the shadows are deepest.
  [Ger., Wo viel Licht is, ist starker Schatten.]

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Shadow

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• The principal person in a picture is light.

  Edouard Manet

  Vision, Awe, Persons

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• Light is the only connection we have with the Universe beyond our solar system, and the only connection our ancestors had with anything beyond Earth. Follow the light and we can journey from the confines of our planet to other worlds that orbit the Sun without ever dreaming of spacecraft. To look up is to look back in time, because the ancient beams of light are messengers from the Universe's distant past.

  Brian Cox

  Dream, Past, Journey

  Professor Brian Cox, Andrew Cohen (2011). “Wonders of the Universe”, p.22, HarperCollins UK

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• To confront a person with their own shadow is to show them their own light.

  Carl Jung

  Shadow, Shows, Persons

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• We eat light, drink it in through our skins. With a little more exposure to light, you feel part of things physically. I like feeling the power of light and space physically because then you can order it materially. Seeing is a very sensuous act-there's a sweet deliciousness to feeling yourself see something.

  James Turrell

  Sweet, Order, Space

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• What is to give light must endure burning.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Viktor E Frankl (2012). “The Doctor and the Soul: From Psychotherapy to Logotherapy”, p.57, Souvenir Press

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  Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.

  George Eastman

  Photography, Creativity, Keys

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• All human souls, never so bedarkened, love light; light once kindled spreads till all is luminous.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Soul, Spread, Humans

  Thomas Carlyle (1843). “Past and Present”, p.44

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