Light Quotes - Page 40

• Tantric Zen, at first, does not appear to have a method. In Tantric Zen, you could meditate on a Brillo box or you could meditate on the clear light of reality.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Reality, Doe

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• That I feel a desire, my friends, that we in this latter day of the world, in which light is fast spreading, that we should be willing to attend to those portions of the Scriptures of truth that direct us home to the foundation.

  Elias Hicks

  Home, Desire, Scripture

  Elias Hicks (1828). “The Quaker, Being a Series of Sermons by Members of the Society of Friends ...”, p.217

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• From generation to generation, lights are extinguished and darkness threatens until some one stoops to bear the torch.

  Laurence Overmire

  Darkness, Torches, Generations

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• Jews, Germans, and Allies is an important historical document, especially in light of those revisionists who would impose a universal amnesia about the suffering and losses incurred during the Holocaust. The grim statistics that Ms. Grossmann presents in her carefully researched and well-organized book carry evidence of the terrible truth. But the testimony of the survivors she quotes contains the final, ineradicable facts of history.

  Hilma Wolitzer

  Book, Loss, Holocaust

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• Darkness is absence of light. Shadow is diminution of light.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Darkness, Shadow, Absence

  Leonardo da Vinci (1938). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete”, p.159, Library of Alexandria

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• The Self is the heart, self-luminous. Illumination arises from the heart and reaches the brain, which is the seat of the mind. The world is seen with the mind; so you see the world by the reflected light of the Self.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Heart, Self, Illumination

  Ramana Maharshi (2004). “The Spiritual Teaching of Ramana Maharshi”, p.70, Shambhala Publications

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• God's presence is not just Light, and Life, but Love. And Love invites, but does not compel.

  Frederica Mathewes-Green

  And Love, Doe, Invites

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• Growing up in England, people told you why you couldn't do things. Suddenly, I had a publisher banging on my door, and was given the creative green light to simply make.

  Nick Bantock

  Growing Up, Doors, People

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• Dark matter is needed to hold galaxies together. Your mind is a Galaxy. More dark than light. But the light makes it worthwhile.

  Matt Haig

  Dark, Mind, Together

  Matt Haig (2013). “The Humans: A Novel”, p.264, Simon and Schuster

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• You are not one you are a Thousand. Just Light your Lantern.

  Rumi

  Thousand, Lanterns

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• If you can light the spark of curiosity in a child, they will learn without any further assistance.

  Ken Robinson

  Children, Curiosity, Sparks

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• Identity is gradual, cumulative; because there is no need for it to manifest itself, it shows itself intermittently, the way a star hints at the pulse of its being by means of its flickering light. But at what moment in this oscillation is our true self manifested? In the darkness or the twinkle?

  Sergio Chejfec

  Stars, Mean, Self

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• The light ones may be killers, the dark ones mild; not the wrappers but the fillers, make cigars or women wild.

  Keith Preston

  Dark, Killers, May

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• I got into cars through my father. He used to work on cars. My job was to hold the light, which pretty much was the limit of my mechanical abilities.

  Adam Ferrara

  Jobs, Father, Car

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• Great love -- the kind that illumines and transforms us -- always includes a keen awareness of limitation as well. Though love may inspire us to expand and develop in new ways, we can never be all things to the one we love, or someone other than who we are. Yet once accepted, limitation also helps us develop essential qualities, such as patience, determination, compassion, and humor. When love comes down to earth -- bringing to light those dark corners we would prefer to ignore, encompassing all the different parts of who we are -- it gains depth and power.

  John Welwood

  Determination, Dark, Compassion

  John Welwood (1991). “JOURNEY HEART PB”, Harper Perennial

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• Rigorously investigated and fearlessly reported, A Crime So Monstrous is a passionate and thorough examination of the appalling reality of human bondage in today's world. In his devastating narrative, Ben Skinner boldly casts light on the unthinkable, yet thriving, modern-day practice of slavery, exposing a global trade in human lives. The abuses detailed in these pages are repugnant, but there is hope to be found: by giving voice to the victims, Skinner helps restore their dignity and makes crucial strides toward closing this shameful chapter in history.

  William J. Clinton

  Reality, Practice, Voice

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• It followed from the special theory of relativity that mass and energy are both but different manifestations of the same thing - a somewhat unfamiliar conception for the average mind. Furthermore, the equation E = mc², in which energy is put equal to mass, multiplied by the square of the velocity of light, showed that very small amounts of mass may be converted into a very large amount of energy and vice versa.

  Albert Einstein

  Squares, Average, Mind

  "Atomic Physics" by the J. Arthur Rank Organisation, Ltd, 1948.

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• Since we are dead in sin, a spiritual light and flame in the heart suitable to the nature of the object of our worship, cannot be raised in us without the operation of supernatural grace... such a worship God must have, whereby he is acknowledged to be the true sanctifier and quickener of the soul.

  Stephen Charnock

  Spiritual, Heart, Flames

  Stephen Charnock (2013). “The Existence and Attributes of God”, p.153, Ravenio Books

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• The way to get rid of darkness is with light; the way to overcome cold is with heat; the way to overcome the negative thought is to substitute the good thought. Affirm the good, and the bad will vanish.

  Joseph Murphy

  Darkness, Overcoming, Negative

  Joseph Murphy, Ph.D., D.D. (2011). “The Power of Your Subconscious Mind: Unlock the Secrets Within”, p.78, Penguin

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• Science contributes to our culture in many ways, as a creative intellectual activity in its own right, as the light which has served to illuminate man's place in the universe, and as the source of understanding of man's own nature.

  John F. Kennedy

  Men, Creative, Understanding

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• High fortune makes both our virtues and vices stand out as objects that are brought clearly to view by the light.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Views, Vices, Virtue

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• We know what boredom is: it is a dull
  Impatience or a fierce velleity,
  A champing wish, stalled by our lassitude,
  To make or do. In the strict sense, of course,
  We invent nothing, merely bearing witness
  To what each morning brings again to light

  Richard Wilbur

  Morning, Boredom, Wish

  Richard Wilbur (2006). “Collected Poems 1943-2004”, p.83, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The age was still dark and reeked of the havoc and misfortunes of the Goths who had put all good literature to destruction. But, by God's goodness, in my time light and dignity were returned to letters, and I see there such improvement that today I would have great difficulty being admitted to the most elementary classes--I, who in my time was reputed to be (and not wrongly) to be the most knowledgeable person of the century.

  Francois Rabelais

  Education, Knowledge, Dark

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• Gargantua, at the age of four hundred four score and forty- four years begat his son Pantagruel, from his wife, named Badebec, daughter of the King of the Amaurotes in Utopia, who died in child-birth: because he was marvelously huge and so heavy that he could not come to light without suffocating his mother.

  Francois Rabelais

  Death, Daughter, Mother

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• The light is there, and colors surround us. However, if there were no light nor colors in our own eye, we wouldn't perceive such things outside of us.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Eye, Color, Perception

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