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Many believe God created the light…

• Genesis, chapter 1: “In the beginning God created the heavens…And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.” What is this light? It is the illumination of consciousness. Rhawn Joseph
• God and Nature met in light. Alfred Lord Tennyson
• God created… light and dark, heaven and hell-science claims the same thing as religion, that the Big Bang created everything in the universe with an opposite.”Including matter itself, antimatter.” Dan Brown
• God may work in light, but we mortals work in pigment. Robert Genn
• God put the moon in the sky to remind us that our darkest moments lead to our brightest. Lynne Ewing
• God’s first creature, which was light. Francis Bacon
• If God lights the candle, none can blow it out. Charles Spurgeon
• Our very name for God’s Creation is NATURE, for that is what Nature is. I shall define Nature for you in simple words. Nature is an electric wave thought image of God’s nature, electrically projected from His formless and unconditioned ONE LIGHT into countless many forms of conditioned light which we call matter. Walter Russell
• The sun with loving light makes bright for me each day, the soul with spirit power gives strength unto my limbs. In sunlight shining clear I revere, Oh God, the strength of humankind, which thou has planted in my soul, that I may with all my might, may love to work and learn. From thee stream light and strength to thee rise love and thanks. Rudolf Steiner
• When God said “Let there be light” he surely must have meant perfectly coherent light. Charles Hard Townes

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…and that God is the source of all light

• God is the source of Light and Life and yet He is above and beyond all these. Mahatma Gandhi
• Do you not see the hand of God, which gives harmony, light, and love to the world? Do not the mountains, in the blue cloud of incense, sing their hymn of glory? Leonid Andreyev
• God always gave us light in our doubts, when we had no other design but to please Him. Brother Lawrence
• God gave music the power to carry his light into the darkness. Andrew Peterson
• God is the source of life and light and joy to the universe. Like rays of light from the sun, like the streams of living water bursting from a living spring, blessings flow out from Him to all His creatures. And wherever the life of God is in the hearts of men, it will flow out to others in love and blessing. Ellen G. White

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Some see light as the very essence of God

• One of the effects or manifestations of energy which scientists observe is light. Coincidentally, light is a common metaphor for the divine. God is light; the divine enlightens. Flora A. Keshgegian
• There is nothing but light. God is everywhere. Frederick Lenz
• Light is the shadow of God. Thomas Browne
• God is good and God is light. In this faith I rest secure. John Greenleaf Whittier
• God is light and in him is no darkness at all. 1 John 1:5
• God is truth and light his shadow. Plato
• Every good thing bestowed and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation, or shifting shadow.” (James 1:17, NRSV)
• God is the light of the heavens and the earth. The likeness of his light is as a niche in which there is a lamp. The lamp is within a glass. The glass is as if it were a brilliant star, kindled from a blessed olive tree of neither the east nor the west. Its oil would almost glow even if fire had never touched it. Light upon light. God guides to his light whomever he wills, and he creates symbols for the people. And God knows all things. Quran 24:35
• Everything is God. Everything is light. It is only when we live in illusions, when there are shadows in our mind that we are afraid. Frederick Lenz
• From that high mount of God whence light and shade Spring both, the face of brightest heaven had changed To grateful twilight. John Milton
• God appears, and God is Light, to those poor souls who dwell in Night; but does a Human Form display to those who dwell in realms of Day. William Blake
• God has seventy veils of light and darkness; were He to lift them, the august glories of His face would burn up everyone whose eyesight perceived him. Muhammad
• God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light. Abraham Joshua Heschel
• God presents Himself in the light; He also conceals Himself by the light—just as we present ourselves in our garments and conceal ourselves by our garments. John Pulsford
• Hail, holy light! offspring of heaven firstborn! Or of th’ eternal co-eternal beam, May I express thee unblam’d? since God is light And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate! John Milton
• He is the possessor of the light of the heavens and the owner of the light of the heavens. The light of the heavens and the earth is the truth, which can be compared to light in its manifestation and clarification, just as he says, “God is the friend of those who believe; He brings them forth from the shadows to the light, i.e., from the false to the true. Al-Zamakhshari
• I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the colour and fragrance of a flower – the Light in my darkness, the Voice in my silence. Helen Keller
• I live and love in God’s peculiar light. Michelangelo
• In the ancient Iranian tradition of Zoroastrianism, one of the central properties of the benevolent Ahura Mazda — God — is uncreated, glorious, primordial light. It fills the heavens, which are the abode of light, and it was the energy from which every material thing in existence has been formed.  Daniel Peterson
• Just as light is diffused from a fire which is confined to one spot, so is this whole universe the diffused energy of the supreme Brahman. And as light shows a difference, greater or less, according to its nearness or distance from the fire, so is there a variation in the energy of the impersonal Brahman. The Vishnu Purana
• Let there be light! And there was light. In the creation of the universe, God’s first command brought into being the structural essential: light. On the beams of this immaterial medium occur all divine manifestations. Devotees of every age testify to the appearance of God as flame and light. “His eyes were as a flame of fire” St. John tells us, “… and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength.” [Genesis 1:3; Revelation 1:14-16] Paramahansa Yogananda
• Light is God because everything is made of light. Kevin R. Williams
• Light is God’s first law. Veda
• No creature hath the like resemblance to the divine nature, as light hath. He doth not only dwell in light, but he is light. Light is a pure, bright, clear, spiritual, unmixed substance. God is infinitely so. Matthew Henry
• Prayers and hymns name God as light. Jesus is extolled as the light of the world. The Holy Spirit enlightens minds and hearts. Light as a metaphor for God captures a key aspect of the divine as that which opens up possibilities, guides our way, and lifts our spirits. Light allows us to see what is hidden and therefore unknown. It also gives warmth. Light is a way God as energy is manifest, as well as that by which God is known. Flora A. Keshgegian
• The holiness of God is like a white light: pure, simple, complete. But when that light shines, as it were, through the prisms of individual human lives, it breaks into an infinite variety of colors… each one reveals a unique dimension of the divine holiness. Robert Barron
• The properties of light have a particular figural or symbolic likeness to a living spirit, and especially to God himself. David Duner
• The salutary and enlivening effects of light upon the heavens and the earth, upon all substances of nature, and upon every order of beings throughout the visible creation, do certainly afford a lively illustration of the infinite knowledge, power, and goodness of God. J. Baseley
• The Spirit of God, I realized, is exhaustless Bliss; His body is countless tissues of light. Paramahansa Yogananda
• Within the universe there is a pure light. It is a light that is beyond all darkness. It does not give way to anything. It is the light of existence, the dharmakaya. Frederick Lenz
• Beyond the body, beyond the sun and stars, past everything you see and yet somehow familiar, is an arc of golden light that stretches as you look into a great and shining circle. And all the circle fills with light before your eyes. The edges of the circle disappear, and what is in it is no longer contained at all. The light expands and covers everything, extending to infinity forever shining and with no break or limit anywhere. Within it everything is joined in perfect continuity. Nor is it possible to imagine that anything could be outside, for there is nowhere that this light is not. A Course in Miracles
• Every good endowment and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights’ (Jms. 1:17). But there is something more. Inspired by the Father, each procession of the Light spreads itself generously toward us, and, in its power to unify, it stirs us by lifting us up. It returns us back to the oneness and deifying simplicity of the Father who gathers us in. For, as the sacred Word says, ‘from Him and to Him are all things’ (Rom. 11:36). Pope Dionysius
• I am the Soul. I am the Light Divine. I am Love. I am Will. I am Fixed Design. Alice Bailey

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God is light and love

• As God can only be seen by His own light, so He can only be loved by His own love. Meister Eckhart
• God is Light, not darkness. God is Love, not hate. God is truth, not untruth. God alone is great. Mahatma Gandhi
• God’s presence is not just Light, and Life, but Love. Frederica Mathewes-Green

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God is light and life

• The Father of the universals doth consist of Light and Life, and from Him Man was born. Hermes Trismegistus
• I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life. Bible
• In him was life and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. The Gospel of John
• The one “I am” at the heart of all creation, Thou art the light of life. Shvetashvatara Upanishad
• When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.” John 8:12

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God is the light in our darkness

• Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair. William Shakespeare
• I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the colour and fragrance of a flower – the Light in my darkness, the Voice in my silence. Helen Keller
• Darkness cannot put out the Light. It can only make God brighter.
• I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life. Bible
• Darkness cannot put out the Light. It can only make God brighter.
• Don’t think that some tomorrow you’ll see God’s Light. You see it now or err in darkest night. Angelus Silesius
• God is the light shining in the midst of darkness, not to deny that there is darkness in the world but to reassure us that we do not have to be afraid of the darkness because darkness will always yield to light. As theologian David Griffin puts in, God is all-powerful, His power enables people to deal with events beyond their control and He gives us the strength to do those things because He is with us. Harold S. Kushner
• God is the light, in which there is no darkness. St John
• When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing? Epictetus

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God is pure radiance

• I find joy and peace in the presence of God and the Holy Spirit sustains that worship, renewing my mind and restoring my heart…His radiance inspires us and enables us to bring Him the adoration due His name. Laura Story
• I simply define glory as the beauty of God unveiled. Glory is the resplendent radiance of His power and His personality. Glory is all of God that makes God God, and shows Him to be worthy of our praise and our boasting and our trust and our hope and our confidence and our joy. Sam Storms
• What is the glory of God? It is who God is. It is the essence of His nature; the weight of His importance; the radiance of His splendor; the demonstration of His power; the atmosphere of His presence. Rick Warren
• The radiance of God is the light of awareness that reveals the divinity of all that exists. David R. Hawkins
• No, let us not make God in our image, poor inhabitants that we are of a distant planet lost in infinite space. However brilliant and sublime our intelligence may be, it is scarcely more than a small spark which shines and in an instant is extinguished, and it alone can give us no idea of that blaze, that conflagration, that ocean of light! Jose P. Rizal

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God lights our way

• God wants to light your way. Joseph Prince
• God would light the way. Faith would keep them on the right path. Francine Rivers
• God’s light is real. It has the power to soften the sting of the deepest wound. It can illuminate the path before us and lead us through the darkest night into the promise of a new dawn. Dieter F. Uchtdorf
• God’s light reveals what His love can heal. Luke 1:79
• I am the true light that lighteth every man that cometh into the world. The Doctrine and Covenants (93:2)
• For light I go directly to the Source of light, not to any of the reflections. Peace Pilgrim

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God’s light shines on us and through us

• God gets glory when his strength shines in our weakness. Kevin DeYoung
• God’s grace consists in the fact that He shines in the heart of every one as the Self; that power of grace does not exclude any one, whether good or otherwise. Ramana Maharshi
• If the sun of God’s countenance shine upon me, I may well be content to be wet with the rain of affliction. Joseph Hall
• In deep confusion, in great despair, when I reach out for him, he is there. When I am lonely as I can be, then I know God shines his light on me. Van Morrison
• It appears that when life is broken by tragedy God shines through the breach. George Arthur Buttrick
• Make your home God’s home and there will be light, love and abundance. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
• My friend, God wants to throw a beam of light on your path today. Joseph Prince
• My life shines with God’s radiant blessings when my heart is the color of joy. Thomas Kinkade
• Prayer is dedicating our thought, feeling and action to the expression of goodness. It is to become like a window through which the light of God shines. Wilferd Peterson
• The glory of God shines, indeed, in all creatures on high and below, but never more brightly than in the cross. John Calvin

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We are all God’s light

• Forgiveness is making the choice to find no more value in anger, and to see that we are all God’s light, all joined, and the separations we feel are only part of the illusions of the ego. Gerald Jampolsky
• Deep within the self is the Light of God. It radiates throughout the expanse of His creation. Through the Guru’s teachings, the darkness of spiritual ignorance is dispelled. The heart lotus flower blooms forth and eternal peace is obtained, as one’s light merges into the Supreme Light.Guru Amar Das
• We are the sons of Light and children of God. Glory unto the Lord, we will succeed. Swami Vivekananda
• Woman is the light of God. Rumi

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God is a like a lantern or lamp guiding the way

• God shall be my hope, my stay, my guide and lantern to my feet. William Shakespeare
• God the Bright Night Light: a God who provides comfort in the dark Carolyn Jane Bohler
• God’s will is clear about many things. We’re to be holy. I like the metaphor that his Word is a lamp to our feet. A lamp may help guide my next one or two steps, but it’s not a crystal ball into the future. Craig Groeschel
• The utterance of God is a lamp, whose light is these words: Ye are the fruits of one tree, and the leaves of one branch. Deal ye one with another with the utmost love and harmony… So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth. Bahá’u’lláh
• You are my lamp, O Lord; the Lord turns my darkness into light. 2 Samuel 22:29
• Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light to my path. Psalm 119:105
• God’s grace is the oil that fills the lamp of love. Henry Ward Beecher
• God is the electricity and we are the lamps. Marianne Williamson
• Daylight is nobody’s friend. God comes in like a landlord and flashes on his brassy lamp. Anne Sexton
• God does not give heed to the ambitiousness of our prayers, because he is always ready to give to us his light, not a visible light but an intellectual and spiritual one but we are not always ready to receive it when we turn aside and down to other things out of a desire for temporal things. Saint Augustine

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Divine light is expressed everywhere…

• Gently eliminating all obstacles to his own understanding, he constantly maintains his unconditional sincerity. His humility, perseverance, and adaptability evoke the response of the universe and fill him with divine light. Lao Tzu
• God is not the exclusive property of any one tradition. The divine light cannot be confined to a single lamp, belonging to the East or the West, but enlightens all human beings. Karen Armstrong
• Hell is nothing else but nature departed or excluded from the beam of divine light. William Law
• I draw strength from spirit, from the divine light. Agapi Stassinopoulos
• If you deny yourself access to the child within because you’re too serious, you also block your connection to the divine Light and your feminine self. Stuart Wilde
• In the active life all the vices are first of all to be removed by the practice of good works, so that in the contemplative life a man may, with now purified mental gaze, pass on to the contemplation of the Divine Light. Isidore of Seville
• No matter what difficulty you are facing, it is coming from Divine Light to bring you to a higher place within. Write down every conceivable reason that this situation can contribute towards your growth. Barbara Rose
• No one can be saved without divine light. Divine light causes us to begin and to make progress, and it leads us to the summit of perfection. Therefore, if you want to begin and to receive this divine light, pray. If you have begun to make progress and want this light to be intensified within you, pray. And if you have reached the summit of perfection, and want to be super-illumined so as to remain in that state, pray. Angela of Foligno
• The aim of every hierarchy is always to imitate God so as to take on His form… the task of every hierarchy is to receive and to pass on undiluted purification, the divine light, and the understanding which brings perfection. Maximus the Confessor
• The window of the soul cleansed perfectly and made completely transparent by the divine light. John of the Cross
• Light divine! we need no fuller test That all is ordered well; We know enough to trust that all is best Where Love and Wisdom dwell. Christopher Pearse Cranch

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…in nature…

• At the touch of this divine light, the mountains seemed to kindle to a rapt, religious consciousness, and stood hushed like devout worshippers waiting to be blessed. John Muir

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…and in us

• The best way to see Divine light, is to put out thine own candle. Francis Quarles
• Ability in a man is knowledge which emanates from divine light. Zoroaster
• We are kept from the experience of Spirit because our inner world is cluttered with past traumas . . . As we begin to clear away this clutter, the energy of divine light and love begins to flow through our being. Thomas Keating
• Life is movement, a walk along the way of life to the fulfillment of those ideas which illuminate us, both in our intellect and in our hearts, with divine light. Giuseppe Mazzini
• Based on our natural heritage as the Divine Light of God, every one of us possesses intuition… defined as the language of the soul. James Van Praagh

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Seeing God as light runs through many religions

• The concept of a close link between light and God, or even of some kind of identity between light and the divine, runs through many religious traditions. Daniel Peterson
• The image of God as light was especially popular among early church theologians. For them, however, light was opposed to darkness, within a dualistic worldview. Light was equated with the good and, therefore, with God and darkness with evil. Light was the source of enlightenment and salvation; darkness connoted ignorance and condemnation. Flora A. Keshgegian

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Some religious scriptures themselves are seen as the light of God

• The living word awakened my soul, gave it light, hope, joy, set it free! Helen Keller
• Scriptures are like packets of light that illuminate our minds and give place to guidance and inspiration from on high. Richard G. Scott
• The Word of God is a lamp by night, a light by day, and a delight at all times. Charles Spurgeon
• The Word of God is like a lamp to guide us. Origen
• The Word of God is the universal and invisible Light, cognizable by the senses, that emits its blaze in the Sun, Moon, Planets, and other Stars. Albert Pike

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It’s interesting to note some also talk of God as being divine darkness

• …by the unceasing and absolute renunciation of thyself and of all things, thou mayest be borne on high, through pure and entire self-abnegation, into the superessential radiance of the divine Darkness. Dionysius the Areopagite
• I pray we… come to this darkness so far above light! If only we lacked sight and knowledge so as to see, so as to know, unseeing and unknowing, that which lies beyond all vision and knowledge. For this would be really to see and to know: to praise the Transcendent One in a transcending way… Pope Dionysius
• If God is energy, however, light is not opposed to darkness, so much as related to it. As Psalm 139, addressing God, states: “darkness and light to you are both alike.” We can view both as dimensions of the divine. Flora A. Keshgegian
• Lead us up beyond unknowing and light, up to the farthest, highest peak of mystic scripture, where the mysteries of God’s Word lie simple, absolute and unchangeable in the brilliant darkness of a hidden silence. Dionysius the Areopagite
• Through an uncompromising, absolute, and pure detachment from yourself and from all things, transcending all things and released from all, you will be led upwards toward that radiance of the divine darkness that is beyond all being. Entering the darkness that surpasses understanding, we shall find ourselves brought, not just to brevity of speech, but to perfect silence and unknowing. Dionysius the Areopagite
• That divine Darkness is the unapproachable light in which God dwells. Into this Darkness, rendered invisible by its own excessive brilliance and unapproachable by the intensity of its transcendent flood of light, come to be all those who are worthy to know and to see God. Dionysius the Areopagite
• We pray that we may come unto this Darkness which is beyond light, and without seeing and without knowing, to see and to know That which is above vision and above knowledge. Dionysius the Areopagite

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God is often likened to the sun…

• I, the fiery life of divine essence, am aflame beyond the beauty of the meadows, I gleam in the waters, and I burn in the sun, moon, and stars… I awaken everything to life. Ildergard of Bingen
• A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, ‘darkness’ on the walls of his cell. C. S. Lewis
• Arguments about God are like pointing a flashlight toward the sky to see if the sun is shining. N. T. Wright
• As God delights in his own beauty, he must necessarily delight in the creature’s holiness which is a conformity to and participation of it, as truly as the brightness of a jewel, held in the sun’s beams, is a participation or derivation of the sun’s brightness, though immensely less in degree. Jonathan Edwards
• Believe in God like the sun up in the sky, see science can tell us how but it can’t tell us why. I seen a baby cry then seconds later she laughed, the beauty of life the pain never lasts. J. Cole
• For the lord God is a sun and shield; the Lord bestows favor and honour. No good thing does he withhold from those who walk uprightly. Psalm 84:11
• God is a shower to the heart burned up with grief; God is a sun to the face deluged with tears. Philibert Joseph Roux
• God is the highest good of the reasonable creature. The enjoyment of him is our proper; and is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied. To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here. Better than fathers and mothers, husbands, wives, or children, or the company of any, or all earthly friends. These are but shadows; but the enjoyment of God is the substance. These are but scattered beams; but God is the sun. These are but streams; but God is the fountain. These are but drops, but God is the ocean. Jonathan Edwards
• I find that all my thoughts circle around God like the planets around the sun, and are as irresistibly attracted by Him. I would feel it to be the grossest sin if I were to oppose any resistance to this force. Carl Jung
• I know that there is one sun in the sky, which gives light to all the world. As there is unity in God, and unity in the light, so is there unity in the principles of freedom. Wherever it is broken, wherever a shadow is cast upon the sunny rays of the sun of liberty, there is always danger of free principles everywhere in the world. Lajos Kossuth
• If you can’t see the sun you will be impressed with a street light. If you’ve never felt thunder and lightning you’ll be impressed with fireworks. And if you turn your back on the greatness and majesty of God you’ll fall in love with a world of shadows and short-lived pleasures. John Piper
• In natures, we see God, as it were, like the sun in a picture; in the law, as the sun in a cloud; in Christ we see Him in His beams; He being ‘the brightness of His glory, and the exact image of His person. Stephen Charnock
• Like the ocean is your god-self; It remains for ever undefiled. And like the ether it lifts but the winged. Even like the sun is your god-self; It knows not the ways of the mole nor seeks it the holes of the serpent. But your god-self does not dwell alone in your being. Much in you is still man, and much in you is not yet man, But a shapeless pigmy that walks asleep in the mist searching for its own awakening. Khalil Gibran
• Nothing escapes God’s knowledge. This is proved by the witness of the Scriptures and the analogy of the sun, which, although created, yet by its light or heat enters into all things. Saint Ambrose
• Reason is the shadow cast by God; God is the sun. Rumi
• The Atman, the Sun of Knowledge that rises in the sky of the heart, destroys the darkness of the ignorance, pervades and sustains all and shines and makes everything to shine. Adi Shankara
• The gods are partial to no era, but steadily shines their light in the heavens, while the eye of the beholder is turned to stone.There was but the sun and the eye from the first. The ages have not added a new ray to the one, nor altered a fibre of the other. Henry David Thoreau
• There is an earthly sun, which is the cause of all heat, and all who are able to see may see the sun; and those who are blind and cannot see him may feel his heat. There is an Eternal Sun, which is the source of all wisdom, and those whose spiritual senses have awakened to life will see that sun and be conscious of His existence; but those who have not attained spiritual consciousness may yet feel His power by an inner faculty which is called Intuition. Paracelsus
• Thinking that God wants something from us is like showing a candle to the sun. Mata Amritanandamayi
• My experiences with science led me to God. They challenge science to prove the existence of God. But must we really light a candle to see the sun? Wernher von Braun

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…too bright to be looked at…

• Nature is the glass reflecting God, as by the sea reflected is the sun, too glorious to be gazed on in his sphere. Brigham Young
• The sun is so bright, so mysterious, that one cannot look at it, and yet in the light of the sun everything else is seen. Fulton J. Sheen
• What we believe about God is the most important truth we believe, and its the one truth that does the most to shape us. God is the Sun too bright for us to see. Jesus is the Prism who makes the colors beautiful and comprehensible. Michael Spencer
• God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else. Gilbert K. Chesterton
• It is easier to gaze into the sun, than into the face of the mystery of God. Such is its beauty and its radiance. Hildegard of Bingen

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…the source of all light and sight…

• The window opens and the room is flooded with light. Colours and shapes come into being. The window is the giver of light, but not the source of it. The sun is the source. Similarly, matter is like the dark room; consciousness — the window — flooding matter with sensations and perceptions, and the Supreme is the sun the source both of matter and of light. The window may be closed, or open, the sun shines all the time. It makes all the difference to the room, but none to the sun. Rupert Spira
• Were the eye not of the sun, How could we behold the light? If God’s might and ours were not as one, How could His work enchant our sight? Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• What does it mean – to see the world as God? Consider standing in a still, dark room.  Nothing is seen – no colours or outlines. Light now floods the room through a window  – colours, shapes and even movement may appear.  The window may be wide open, restricted by murky glass (the mind’s wrong ideas), or darkly closed; it is one conveyor even of indirect light; it is consciousness. Only direct sun is the supreme source of light and of relative matter. Matter is like the content of the dark room, flooded with appearances and function through consciousness.  But it is the hidden sun beyond that always shines its light, making all the difference to the room’s content – to you and to your world – but none to the sun.   B Realist

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…the source of all warmth and life…

• The Sun is the sole inconsumable fire And God is the sole inexhaustible Giver. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• The sun is our father, the earth is our mother. And God is a myth destroying our family. Steve Fowler
• We know that prayer in and of itself cannot save us, but carrying it out before God can. For when the Lord’s eyes are upon us He sanctifies us, as the sun warms everything upon which it shines. Gregory Palamas
• Hear and understand: the Flame is the source of all things, all things are its manifestation! Seek to be One with the Divine Sun! Hold your thought on uniting the Light with your human body. Light is the Source of all the life; for without the Great Light nothing can ever exist! Know, Light is the basis of all formed matter. Know, O man, that all space is filled by worlds within worlds. Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov
• The human soul is to God, is as the flower to the sun; it opens at its approach, and shuts when it withdraws. Benjamin Whichcote

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…shining on us all

• Trying to do good to people without God’s help is no easier than making the sun shine at midnight. Therese of Lisieux
• When a man turns his face to God he finds sunshine everywhere. Abdu’l-Bahá
• The beauty of the sunbeam lies partly in the fact that God does not keep it; he gives it away to us all. David Swing
• God is the Sun and when His rays fall upon your heart, not impeded by the clouds of egoism, the lotus blooms and the petals unfold. Sathya Sai Baba

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God and the sun are of the same glorious stature

• Under the storms, sun becomes a god! Mehmet Murat Ildan
• Not unfittingly do some call it the light of the world, others the soul, still others the governor. Tremigistus calls it the visible God: Sophocles’ Electra, the All-seer. And in fact does the sun, seated on his royal throne, guide his family of planets as they circle around him. Nicholas Copernicus
• I’ve begun worshipping the sun for a number of reasons. First of all, unlike some other gods I could mention, I can see the sun. It’s there for me every day. And the things it brings me are quite apparent all the time: heat, light, food, and a lovely day. There’s no mystery, no one asks for money, I don’t have to dress up, and there’s no boring pageantry. And interestingly enough, I have found that the prayers I offer to the sun and the prayers I formerly offered to “God” are all answered at about the same 50% rate. George Carlin
• In the center of all rests the sun. For who would place this lamp of a very beautiful temple in another or better place that this wherefrom it can illuminate everything at the same time? As a matter of fact, not unhappily do some call it the lantern; others, the mind and still others, the pilot of the world. Trismegistus calls it a “visible God”; Sophocles’ Electra, “that which gazes upon all things.” And so the sun, as if resting on a kingly throne, governs the family of stars which wheel around. Nicolaus Copernicus
• Nor dim nor red, like God’s own head, The glorious Sun uprist. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• See the sun! God’s crest upon His azure shield, the Heavens. Philip James Bailey
• When the sun rises, do you not see a round disc of fire somewhat like a guinea? O no, no, I see an innumerable company of the heavenly host crying Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God Almighty. William Blake

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We are like specks to the sun and yet are one with it

• The moment you understand yourself as the true Self, you find such peace and bliss that the impressions of the petty enjoyments you experienced before become as ordinary specks of light in front of the brilliant sun. Swami Satchidananda
• The Self in man and in the sun are one. The Upanishad
• The self that seeks Awareness is like a shadow that seeks the sun. Rupert Spira

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Each of us is a ray of light radiating from the same source…

• The difference between soul and Spirit is this: The Spirit is ever-existing, ever-conscious, ever-new omnipresent Joy; the soul is the individualized reflection of ever-existing, ever-conscious, ever-new Joy, confined within the body of each and every being. Souls are the radiating rays of Spirit, individualized as formless, vibrationless “atoms” and “tissues” of Spirit. Hence, they are coexistent with Spirit and of the same essence, as the sun and its rays are one. Though incarnate, the soul belongs to the noumenal region, which changes not. All material forms belong to the regions of phenomena; their very nature being alienated from Spirit, they change constantly. Phenomena arise from and are inseparably linked with noumena; but the latter, being of Spirit, are immutable and transcendent. The outer surface of the soul’s consciousness that is cloaked with the instrumentalities of the ego, mind, and senses undergoes the permutations of Nature, but the soul’s essence remains inviolable. Paramahansa Yogananda
• God is the sun and [your] consciousness is a ray of light. Eckhart Tolle
• The ray of sunlight went continuously exploring the universe, looking, getting involved, thinking, getting identified with this and that. And suddenly gets very unhappy and thinks “Who Am I?”  Suddenly the sunlights stops doing and becomes aware of being.  And becomes aware it’s not just here, but back there, there’s an enormous depth to it.  And it becomes aware its connected to the sun.  And that frees it from fear.  A deep trust in life arises because it feels  connected to something vast that is you and yet transcends who you are.  Eckhart Tolle
• As a sunbeam perishes when cut off from the sun, so man apart from God would pass back into the void of nothingness from which he first leaped at the creative call. Aiden Wilson Tozer
• Woman is a ray of God. She is not that earthly beloved: she is creative, not created. Rumi

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…ultimately inseparable from God

• I believe in the absolute oneness of God and, therefore, also of humanity. What though we have many bodies? We have but one soul. The rays of the sun are many through refraction. But they have the same source. I cannot, therefore, detach myself from the wickedest soul (nor may I be denied identity with the most virtuous). Mahatma Gandhi
• Just like a sunbeam can’t separate itself from the sun, and a wave can’t separate itself from the ocean, we can’t separate ourselves from one another. We are all part of a vast sea of love, one indivisible divine mind. Marianne Williamson
• The drop of consciousness, which is individual Spirit, is like a ray of light emanating from the sun. The individual ray is really no different from the sun. When consciousness stops identifying itself as the ray, it comes to know itself as the sun. Beings have merged into that state. Michael A. Singer

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Like the sun, God’s light shines equally on all …

• Does the sun shine more brightly on a saint than on anyone else? Is the air more available to the saint? Does the rain fall on one neighbor’s trees more than another’s? Michael A. Singer
• God is good for everybody. The sun shines on good people and bad people, and it rains on both, too. God doesn’t choose rain only for bad people. Mariano Rivera
• God is like the sun. When the sun shines, it shines for everyone. God is for everyone. Ziggy Marley
• Measure not God’s love and favour by your own feeling. The sun shines as clearly in the darkest day as it does in the brightest. The difference is not in the sun, but in some clouds which hinder the manifestation of the light thereof. Richard Sibbes
• The sun does not shine for a few trees, and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy. The lonely pine on the mountain-top waves its sombre boughs and cries, ‘Thou art my sun.’ And the little meadow violet lifts its cup of blue, and whispers with its perfumed breath, ‘Thou art my sun.’ And the grain in a thousand fields rustles in the wind, and makes answer, ‘Thou art my sun.’ So God sits effulgent in heaven, not for a favored few, but for the universe of life; and there is no creature so poor or so low that he may not look up with childish confidence and say, ‘My Father, Thou art mine. Henry Ward Beecher
• As God illumines all people equally with the light of the sun, so do those who desire to imitate God let shine an equal ray of love on all people. Saint Basil
• The Sun shineth as well on the good as the bad: God from on high beholdeth all the workers of iniquity, as well as the upright of heart. Thomas Nashe
• To say that God turns away from the sinful is like saying that the sun hides from the blind. Anthony the Great
• We all experience pain and suffering, but it is not the quintessential nature of life. Just because the earth turns away from the sun and night occurs doesn’t mean that the sun isn’t always shining. It might be hard to see sometimes, but goodness and divine beauty can always be found if you adjust your vision just right. John Friend

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… but this light is sometimes obscured by identification and attachment

• Your relationship with God is the same as your relationship with the sun. If you hid from the sun for years and then chose to come out of your darkness, the sun would still be shining as if you had never left. Michael A. Singer
• The sun of truth remains hidden behind the cloud of self-identification with the body. I AM That
• The sun is always shining. It is just sometimes obscured by clouds. Anthony Lambert

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Light is a source of many spiritual metaphors

• Light has pervaded our language:. There’s light at the end of the tunnel,” an expression that we use when we’ve been trudging through something, and “Finally there’s a measure of hope at the end.” The imagery infuses our soul as well: Starlight to a sailor. Sunlight to a prisoner. Moonlight to lovers. Candlelight to a scholar. The light of a campfire to old friends.. A light in the window to someone who is lost. And a thousand other examples. Jamie Walters
• Light is a potent metaphor. It’s the universal symbol of hope, truth, goodness and purity since time immemorial. Light banishes darkness and drives away fear; light exposes error and reveals truth; light gives us sight, insight, illumination, enlightenment. Light also represents reason and wisdom – the original ‘logos’ or divine Word; the law that shapes and forms the universe, making it a cosmos not a chaos. Harvey Edser

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Light, like God, is divinely beautiful

• I’m just impressed when someone can capture all the crazy beauty of the light that is all around us. It’s amazing to me. Todd Carey
• People are like stained – glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
• Oh mysterious world of all light, thou hast made a light shine within me, and I have grown in admiration of thy antique beauty, which is the immemorial youth of nature. Paul Gauguin
• Beauty is not in the face; Beauty is a light in the something you do daily. Mike Murdock
• All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow. Leo Tolstoy
• Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself. Plotinus
• Beauty is just a light switch away…’click!’ Beauty is not caused. It is. Emily Dickinson
• Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart. Khalil Gibran
• Look, up at the sky. There is a light, a beauty up there, that no shadow can touch. R. R. Tolkien
• Art is both the taking and giving of beauty, the turning out to the light of the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit. Ansel Adams
• Outer beauty is inner beauty made visible, and it manifests itself in the light that flows in our eyes. Paulo Coelho
• There is a rhythm in life, a certain beauty which operates by a variation of lights and shadows. Louis Bromfield
• Stars veil their beauty soon, beside the glorious moon, when her full silver light doth make the whole earth bright. Sappho
• Beauty is not in outer perfection but rather in the amount of light we allow to shine through the very thing obscuring our souls. Lynn Robinson
• All the masterpieces of art contain both light and shadow. A happy life is not one filled with only sunshine, but one which uses both light and shadow to produce beauty. Billy Graham
• Light, God’s eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building. Thomas Fuller
• To love beauty is to see light. Victor Hugo
• Come, drink the mystic wine of Night, Brimming with silence and the stars; While earth, bathed in this holy light, Is seen without its scars. Louis Untermeyer
• Look at light and admire its beauty. Close your eyes, and then look again: what you saw is no longer there; and what you will see later is not yet. Leonardo da Vinci
• The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute. Claude Monet

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Light, like God, is life giving and life sustaining…

• We do know that the effects of light provide illumination as well as heat. In those ways, light enables life. Other forms of light, such as sunlight, also seem to point to the dynamic and life-giving qualities of God. They also gesture to the ways in which encountering the divine holds a certain danger. Flora A. Keshgegian
• Of all the marvellous creations of nature, none is more wonderful or more widely diffused than light. Acton
• Ever since we crawled out of that primordial slime, that’s been our unifying cry, “More light.”   Torchlight.  Candlelight.  Neon, incandescent lights that banish the darkness from our caves to illuminate our roads, the insides of our refrigerators.  Big floods for the night games at Soldier’s Field.  Little tiny flashlights for those books we read under the covers when we’re supposed to be asleep.  Light is more than watts and footcandles.  Light is metaphor.  Light is knowledge, light is life, light is light.  Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider
• Movement, change, light, growth, and decay are the life-blood of nature. Andy Goldsworthy
• Life evolved under conditions of light and darkness, light and then darkness. Jessa Gamble

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…and, in some ways, is synonymous with life itself

• Life is a winking light in the darkness. Hayao Miyazaki
• The Sun will rise and set regardless. What we choose to do with the light while it’s here is up to us. Journey wisely. Alexandra Elle
• To watch the birth and death of beings is like looking at the movements of a dance. A lifetime is like a flash of lightning in the sky. Deepak Chopra
• Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Seneca
• Life is light and consciousness. Frederick Lenz
• Life is Colour and Warmth and Light… Julian Grenfell
• Life is light. L. Ron Hubbard
• Light, Life and Love are like three glow-worms at thy feet: the whole universe of stars, the dewdrops on the grass whereon thou walkest! Aleister Crowley
• The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. Vladimir Nabokov
• Life is just one small piece of light between two eternal darknesses. Vladimir Nabokov
• Life is composed of lines of light, fibers of energy, pulsing, still, pure being. Frederick Lenz
• Life is composed of lights and shadows. Walt Disney
• Life should be a continual celebration, a festival of lights the whole year round. Rajneesh

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Light is a dynamic form of energy…

• What makes light such an appropriate metaphor [for God] is that it is a manifestation of energy. Light is dynamic. Although scientists have argued that light is a wave or a particle, most have come to view it as neither. Rather what seem to be particles or waves are effects of light. Light itself remains indefinable and indeterminate. Flora A. Keshgegian

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…and has a profoundly positive effect on us

• When light engages the heart, it causes an illumination of the path, a purification of the consciousness, an enlightenment of the intellect and an establishment of the foundations of dhikr and shukr and of beautiful worship. Habib Umar bin Hafez
• I think that people generally don’t understand that light is a drug. Just like drugs, light can change the timing and abundance of chemicals in your body, hormones, neurotransmitters –  all those sorts of things. That’s exactly what drugs do. Travis Longcore
• When my heart is heavy, the sun helps make it light. Terri Guillemets
• Our moments of light are moments of happiness; in the mind, when it is clear weather it is fine weather. Joubert

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Light heals

• I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more. Henry Ward Beecher
• Where there is sunshine the doctor starves. Flemish Proverb
• I’m not a doctor and I don’t know the technical terminology, but I do know that sunshine activates our happiness glands. Terri Guillemets
• Now, if light exercises such a power over other created beings, why should it not also have a distinct influence on the human body and mind?… It may rightly be asserted that a clear atmosphere and sunlight are most powerful in producing a genial disposition in man and therefore have a vital influence on mind and body. Sebastian Kneipp
• Where the sun does not go, there goes the doctor…. Watch for the sun, for life and health dwell in the sun’s beams; and when it is shining, open every window in the house until it goes down again. “Take Sun Baths,” Food, Home and Garden, November 1897
• The wound is the place where the Light enters you. Rumi
• You may feel burdened by worry, fear, or doubt. To you and to all of us, I repeat a wonderful and certain truth: God’s light is real. It has the power to soften the sting of the deepest wound. It can illuminate the path before us and lead us through the darkest night into the promise of a new dawn. Dieter F. Uchtdorf

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Light is often associated with spiritual worlds and dimensions

• On the death of any living creature the spirit returns to the spiritual world, the body to the bodily world. In this however only the bodies are subject to change. The spiritual world is one single spirit who stands like unto a light behind the bodily world and who, when any single creature comes into being, shines through it as through a window. According to the kind and size of the window less or more light enters the world. The light itself however remains unchanged. Aziz Nasafi  (13th-century mystic)
• There is no death where the inner light shines, irradiating the fields of the within — the beyond — the unattainable attainment. You know where to find me. Elsa Barker

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Some believe that light creates all matter and comprises its very substance

• “Let there be light,” in the Judeo-Christian origin tradition strongly suggests that light is the foundation of matter. Before light, creation was “without form and void”; then God “breathed upon the face of the waters” (created vibrating waves of energy) that became light (electromagnetic energy). Joseph Selbie
• All energy this side of the Big Bang is light. Every sub atom, atom, star, planet, even consciousness itself is made of light and has a frequency and/or particle. Light is living stuff. Everything is made of light, even stones. So everything is alive. Everything is made from the Light of God; everything is very intelligent. Mellen-Thomas Benedict
• All that is is light. Johannes Scotus Erigena
• All things when they are admitted are made manifest by the light: for everything that is made manifest is light. Ephesians 5: 13
• Eveything is made of light,’ he said, ‘and the space between isn’t empty. Miguel Angel Ruiz
• I argue that light propagation may actually create space and time. The zero-point field inertia hypothesis implies that the most fundamental property of matter, namely mass, is also created by light. Bernard Haisch
• Light and matter are both single entities, and the apparent duality arises in the limitations of our language. Werner Heisenberg
• Light is God because everything is made of light. Kevin R. Williams
• All matter is just a mass of stable light. Sri Aurobindo
• We can almost say that light creates space-time. I suggest here that light, in the form of a universal electromagnetic zero-point field, also creates and sustains the world of matter that fills space-time. Bernard Haisch
• Everything in Nature is expressed by rhythmic waves of light. Every thought and action is a light-wave of thought and action. Walter Russell

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There are several parallels between God and physical light

• God is said to be absolute; so is light. God lies beyond the manifest world of matter, shape, and form, beyond both space and time; so does light. God cannot be known directly; nor can light. God is the source of everything; so is light. Light is the foundation of every action in the universe. And every experience we have is a manifestation of the light of consciousness.  Peter Russell
• Light is undiminishable, eternal and omni-present. In every religion that existed these qualities have been recognized as divine. So that we are forced to the conclusion that light, actual sensible light, is indeed the direct vehicle of divinity: it is the consciousness of God. Rodney Collin

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Light, like God, exists only in the timeless now

• Since light travels at the speed of light, let’s imagine a disembodied observer (pure mind with no mass) traveling at the speed of light. Einstein’s equations would then predict that, from light’s own point of view, it travels no distance and takes zero time to do so. This points towards something very strange indeed about the light. Whatever light is, it seems to be in a realm where there is no duration; no before, and no after. There is only “Now.”  Peter Russell

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Light, like God, is beyond space and time

• A beam of light, or the smallest quantum bundle of light called a photon, moves through space and time at a fixed pace of 186,000 miles per second—at least from your material perspective. From its own perspective, however, there is no space or time. Bernard Haisch

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Light, like God, is a mystery

• For the rest of my life I want to reflect on what light is. Albert Einstein
• Light has unknowable qualities. We never see light itself. The light that strikes the eye is known only through the energy it releases. This energy is translated into a visual image in the mind. Although the image appears to be composed of light, the light we see is a quality appearing in consciousness. What light actually is, we never know. Peter Russell
• It should not be that surprising that our minds find it so hard to comprehend the nature of light. It may be that we will never be able to make sense of it. With light we may have reached the threshold of knowability. Peter Russell
• With all your science can you tell how it is, and whence it is, that light comes into the soul? Henry David Thoreau
• I saw a light infinite and incomprehensible… one single light… simple, non-composite, timeless, eternal… the source of life. St. Symeon

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Light is equated with love and love is equated with God

• God’s love is as objective as light. Because the sun in a sense is light, or the source of light rather than being lit, it really gives its light to the earth. And because the earth really receives light from the sun, it is really transformed every morning from darkness to light. Just as objectively, because God is love, God really gives love to us. And because we receive real life-changing love from God, we are really transformed from darkness to light. Peter Kreeft
• … that chases away the darkness of hatred
• Both light and shadow are the dance of Love. Rumi
• Darkness can only be scattered by light, hatred can only be conquered by love. Pope John Paul II
• Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Every moment is made glorious by the light of love. Rumi
• God’s love is just like the sun, constant and shining for us all. And just as the earth rotates around the sun, it is the natural order for us to move away for a season, and then to return closer, but always within the appropriate time. Betty Eadie
• God’s presence is not just Light, and Life, but Love. And Love invites, but does not compel. Frederica Mathewes-Green
• Hatred paralyses life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it. Martin Luther King, Jr.
• In Silence the heart illumines; veil after veil is removed.In the heart shines the Light of Love. When the Light of Love is seen shining within your heart you behold the Light in all. Your heart will be filled with love and compassion for all. Kirpal Singh
• It’s the kind of kiss that inspires stars to climb into the sky and light up the world. Tahereh Mafi
• Like white light refracted through a prism and split into many colors, God’s eternal love-nature, expressed through the prism of time, becomes God’s multicolored love story. History is His story. Peter Kreeft
• Love is a light that never dwelleth in a heart possessed by fear. Bahá’u’lláh
• Love is light, warmth and comfort. Understanding is just light. June Goodfield
• Love is like understanding, that grows bright, Gazing on many truths; ’tis like thy light. Percy Bysshe Shelley
• Love is not consolation, it is light. Simone Weil
• Love is the light that can shine so bright. – Christopher Cross
• Love is the light that casts no shadow. Elizabeth Lowell
• Love is the white light of emotion. – Diane Ackerman
• Love is to fear as light is to dark; in the presence of one, the other cannot exist. Marianne Williamson
• Love without attachment is light. Norman O. Brown
• Yes, love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire with angels shared, by Allah given to lift from earth our low desire. Lord Byron

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Light is equated with compassion and compassion is equated with God

• Enlightenment is the inner light of wisdom that is permanently free from all mistaken appearance, and whose function is to bestow mental peace upon each and every living being every day. Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
• Light of compassion and the light of wisdom that arises from our deepest and truest nature surpasses all other lights. Amit Ray
• Compassion is not having any hesitation to reflect your light on things. Chogyam Trungpa
• Even in darkness it is possible to create light and encourage compassion. Elie Wiesel
• Beautify your inner dialogue. Beautify your inner world with love light and compassion. Amit Ray
• Authentic power is the energy that Is formed by the intentions of the Soul. It is the light shaped by the intentions of love and compassion guided by wisdom. Gary Zukav
• When the Sun of compassion arises darkness evaporates and the singing birds come from nowhere. Amit Ray
• We can’t fight darkness with darkness. We have to find compassion, and embrace the darkness inside of us in order to understand it and, ultimately, to transcend it. Debbie Ford

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Light is equated with forgiveness and forgiveness is equated with God

• If you are bathed In God’s Forgiveness-Light, Then no dust of earth Will be able to cling to you. Sri Chinmoy
• I looked outside the window and saw a million stars smiling down at I sensed deeply it was the Universe telling me that I was loved and I was forgiven. I felt my inner being light up within me as brilliant and beautiful as the stars glittering above. Aimee Davies

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Light is equated with truth and truth is equated with God

• And I believe the truth is mighty, and shines by its own light. Vincent Bugliosi
• Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness. Leonardo da Vinci
• Come forth into the light of things. Let nature be your teacher. William Wordsworth
• Every truth ever discovered — each new light that will ever burn bright — already exists in our consciousness. Guy Finley
• Facts do not convey truth. That’s a mistake. Facts create norms, but truth creates illumination. Werner Herzog
• In darkness God’s truth shines most clear. Corrie Ten Boom
• In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth. Mahatma Gandhi
• In the space of no-mind, truth descends like light. Rajneesh
• Light confirms my reality, gives birth to my form…without light I am not only invisible but formless as well; and to be unaware of one’s form is to live a death…the truth is the light and light is the truth. Ralph Ellison
• Light is the symbol of truth. James Russell Lowell
• Light to me is perhaps the most profound truth in the universe. My thinking has been deeply affected by the belief everything is some form of radiant energy. Wynn Bullock
• Not every light is a true light; To the wise the light of truth is light itself. Thiruvalluvar
• Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it and, above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light. Joseph Pulitzer
• Science is observing truth in the light of head. Religion is observing truth in the light of heart. Amit Ray
• The Light is more than some abstract, unknowable energy force. Light is Truth. If Light is truth, then darkness must be lies. Each and every lie we tell to ourselves and others casts the shadow of separation upon us. Every time even the most minor deception is revealed and the truth is made known we are re-united with the Light. So, Let there be Light. Those are the words by which you can create your own magnificent world. Renee Bledsoe
• The man who finds a truth lights a torch. Robert Green Ingersoll
• The soul seeks growth; as Truth, as Life, as Light, is in itself. God is, and so is life, light, truth, hope, love. And those that abide in same, grow. Those that abide in the shadow of the night, or the conditions that become or make for the fruits of these, do not grow. Edgar Cayce
• The truth in you remains as radiant as a star, as pure as light, as innocent as love itself. James Lane Allen
• The truth is the light and the light is the truth. Ralph Ellison
• The white light of truth, in traversing the many sided transparent soul of the poet, is refracted into iris-hued poetry. Herbert Spencer
• The world is darkness; knowledge is light; but knowledge without truth is a mere shadow. Ali ibn Abi Talib
• There are two kinds of truth; the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of these is science, and the second is art. Raymond Chandler
• There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic. Anais Nin
• There is no light greater than truth and it shines at the heart of all creation. Suzy Kassem
• They are on the way to truth who apprehend God by means of the divine, Light by the light. Philo
• To secure one’s freedom the Christian must experience God’s light which is God’s truth. Watchman Nee
• Discover what is true for you. Feel the true, authentic source of Divine light within you now. Aimee Davies
• Truth is like heat or light; its vibrations are endless, and are endlessly felt. Margaret Deland
• Truth is so great a perfection, that if God would render himself visible to men, he would choose light for his body and truth for his soul. Pythagorus
• Truth seeks light, lies seek shadows. Anthony D. Williams
• Truth, like light is dazzling. By contrast, untruth is a beautiful sunset that enhances everything. Albert Camus
• Truths kindle light for truths. Lucretius
• What I would say is this, that the light is not blinding because God would hide, but because the truth is too glorious for our vision. George MacDonald
• Where there is truth, there is also light. Pope Francis

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Light is equated with reality and reality is equated with God

• I’m absolutely convinced that this is a world of appearances, not reality. There’s one reality and that’s Light and Love. Richard Bach
• Light, Life and Love are like three glow-worms at thy feet: the whole universe of stars, the dewdrops on the grass whereon thou walkest! Aleister Crowley
• Those who have awakened to the truth about reality–whom we often call illumined, or enlightened–frequently describe their experiences in terms of light. The sufi Abu ‘l-Hosian al-Nuri experienced a light “gleaming in the Unseen… I gazed at it continually, until the time came when I had wholly become that light.” And the tenth-century Christian mystic St. Symeon saw: “a light infinite and incomprehensible… one single light… simple, non-composite, timeless, eternal… the source of life.”   Peter Russell

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Light is equated with goodness and goodness is equated with God

• At a tender age I discovered that it isn’t doing spectacular things that makes you remarkable in the eyes of God, but instead, it is when you light just one candle to dispel a little bit of darkness that you are doing something tremendous. And if, as a global people, we put all the little bits of good together, we will overwhelm the world. Desmond Tutu
• Following the Noble Path is like entering a dark room with a light in the hand; the darkness will all be cleared away, and the room will be filled with light. Gautama Buddha
• How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. William Shakespeare
• Light is good from whatever lamp it shines.
• There is in each of us so much goodness that if we could see its glow, it would light the world. Sam Friend
• Your life is something opaque, not transparent, as long as you look at it in an ordinary human way. But if you hold it up against the light of God’s goodness, it shines and turns transparent, radiant and bright.  And then you ask yourself in amazement:  Is this really my own life I see before me?  Albert Schweitzer
• The light of our talents and gifts
• We are each gifted in a unique and important way. It is our privilege and our adventure to discover our own special light. Evelyn Dunbar
• When you have the courage to follow your talents into the dark unknown places they lead, often God will send angels to light your way. Shannon L. Alder
• You have to find what sparks a light in you so that you in your own way can illuminate the world. Oprah Winfrey

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Light is equated with conscience and conscience is equated with light

• Conscience is the light by which we interpret the will of God in our own lives. Thomas Merton
• God is the source of Light and Life and yet He is above and beyond all these. God is conscience. Mahatma Gandhi
• The great beacon light God sets in all, the conscience of each bosom. Robert Browning

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Light is equated with mercy and mercy is equated with God

• God’s mercy is so great that you may sooner drain the sea of its water, or deprive the sun of its light, or make space too narrow, than diminish the great mercy of God. Charles Spurgeon
• Mercy is like the rainbow, which God hath set in the clouds; it never shines after it is night. If we refuse mercy here, we shall have justice in eternity. Jeremy Taylor
• Where, if not in the Divine Mercy, can the world find refuge and the light of hope? Pope John Paul II
• Mercy among the virtues is like the moon among the stars … It is the light that hovers above the judgment seat. Edwin Hubbel Chapin
• May the father of all mercies scatter light, and not darkness, upon our paths. George Washington
• A loving heart is a vessel of light and mercy. It is a receptacle into which I pour My grace. Frances J Roberts

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Light is equated with reason and reason is equated with God

• Reason is a light that God has kindled in the soul. Aristotle
• Reason is the shadow cast by God; God is the sun. Rumi
• If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be bold. Louis D. Brandeis

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Light is equated with inspiration and inspiration is equated with God

• When you feel inspired you find yourself thrust into a world where ordinary objects and events are full of light, as if illuminated from within. This inner light is truth, and when you suddenly see the truth, we gain insight, clarity, and joy. Deepak Chopra

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Light is equated with intuition and intuition is equated with God

• Intuitive knowledge is an illumination of the soul, whereby it beholds in the light of God those things which it pleases Him to reveal to us by a direct impression of divine clearness. Rene Descartes

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Light is equated with hope and hope is equated with God

• Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there’s no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic. Laini Taylor
• Hope, like the gleaming taper’s light, Adorns and cheers our way; And still, as darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray. Oliver Goldsmith
• Hope is the sun. It is light. It is passion. It is the fundamental force for life’s blossoming. Daisaku Ikeda
• Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness. Desmond Tutu
• Keepers of light carry invisible candles of hope, touching hearts and illuminating the souls of friends. Tom Baker
• Vision is seeing visibly the light of hope within the range of the eyesight. Anuj
• Someday all you will have to light your way will be a single ray of hope and that will be enough. Kobi Yamada
• Today too, amid so much darkness, we need to see the light of hope and to be men and women who bring hope to others. Pope Francis
• We must shine with hope, stained glass windows that shape light into icons, glow like lanterns borne before a procession. Who can bear hope back into the world but us. Marge Piercy
• Hope lights up our darkness. Celia Fremlin
• Hope lights a candle instead of cursing the darkness. James Keller
• Hope is a vigorous principle; it is furnished with light and heat to advise and execute; it sets the head and heart to work, and animates a man to do his utmost. Jeremy Collier
• Enticing hope is like lighting candle in the dark room. Aftab Alam
• Any little thing can give hope, like a candle in the dark. Christiaan Mostert
• But hope is no less realistic than despair. It is still our choice whether to live in light or lie down in darkness. Rick Yancey
• Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. Anne Lamott
• Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness. Desmond Tutu
• Hope is much like a cat in the Dark — you only know it’s there by the reflection of its eyes — which means there is light nearby. Terri Guillemets
• The deepest dark reveals the starriest hope. Gerald Massey
• An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out? Rene Descartes

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Light is equated with knowledge and knowledge is equated with God

• God has bestowed upon you intelligence and knowledge. Do not extinguish the lamp of Divine Grace and do not let the candle of wisdom die out in the darkness of lust and error. For a wise man approaches with his torch to light up the path of mankind. Khalil Gibran
• In this world, which is so plainly the antechamber of another, there are no happy men. The true division of humanity is between those who live in light and those who live in darkness. Our aim must be to diminish the number of the latter and increase the number of the former. That is why we demand education and knowledge. Victor Hugo
• Knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes. John Locke
• Knowledge is love and light and vision. Helen Keller
• Light I think is knowledge. Knowledge is love. Love is freedom. Freedom is energy. Energy is all. Without light, we can’t have images. Vittorio Storaro
• Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand. Ezra Pound
• Most people are mirrors, reflecting the moods and emotions of the times – few are windows, bringing light to bear on the dark corners where troubles fester. The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. Sydney J. Harris
• The light in the world comes principally from two sources, the sun and the student’s lamp. Christian Nestell Bovee
• The more mysterious, the more imperfect; as darkness is, in comparison with light–so is mystery, in comparison with knowledge. Benjamin Whichcote

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Light is equated with wisdom and knowledge is equated with God

• Wisdom flashes like lightening amidst the clouds of the inner sky. Sai Baba
• Wisdom is a very relaxed state of being. Wisdom is not knowledge, not information; wisdom is your inner being awake, alert, watchful, witnessing, full of light. Rajneesh
• Wisdom makes light the darkness of ignorance. Gautama Buddha
• Wisdom, sits alone, topmost in heaven: she is its light, its God; and in the heart of man she sits as high, though groveling minds forget her oftentimes, seeing but this world’s idols. Nathaniel Parker Willis
• Silence is our inner wisdom-light. Sri Chinmoy
• No light is brighter than wisdom. Wisdom is the light in the world. Gautama Buddha
• Despite billions of Sun, the universe is still in darkness! The wisdom of light is yet powerless! Mehmet Murat Ildan
• From the body of the unborn essence arises the sphere of light, and from that sphere of light arises wisdom. Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

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Light is equated with understanding and understanding is equated with God

• All truth and understanding is a result of a divine light which is God Himself. Saint Augustine
• The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil’s mind, and behold, all things are changed! Anne Sullivan Macy
• When you go into the planes of light, all of the incorrect ways of seeing and understanding life that you pick up are washed away. Frederick Lenz
• My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil’s mind, and behold, all things are changed! Anne Sullivan
• We shall light a candle of understanding in our hearts which shall not be put out. Jewish Proverb 
• Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity. Once we have more knowledge (light) about each other, we will stop condemning each other and a United front will be brought about. Malcolm X
• Understanding is like the Sun, which gives light to all the thoughts. Margaret Cavendish

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Light is equated with divine revelation and revelation is equated with God

• Wait on the Lord” is a constant refrain in the Psalms, and it is a necessary word, for God often keeps us waiting. He is not in such a hurry as we are, and it is not his way to give more light on the future than we need for action in the present, or to guide us more than one step at a time. When in doubt, do nothing, but continue to wait on God. When action is needed, light will come. J. I. Packer
• We look at life from the back side of the tapestry. And most of the time, what we see is loose threads, tangled knots and the like. But occasionally, God’s light shines through the tapestry, and we get a glimpse of the larger design with God weaving together the darks and lights of existence. John Piper
• When we pray for God to illumine our path, we are saying, ‘Dear God, please show me the way. What thoughts do I need to think, to be able to navigate my life at this point? What perceptions do I need; what insights will guide me? Who do I need to forgive? What parts of my personality do I need to look at; what changes do I need to make? Please come upon me and heal my life. Amen. Marianne Williamson
• While some men see ordinary happenings, others see divine light and guidance. Thomas Merton
• I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars. Og Mandino
• Don’t question in the dark what God showed you in the light. V. Raymond Edman
• Light is not so much something that reveals, as it is itself the revelation. James Turrell
• Once you have the light of God within you, you see things within yourself that you did not know existed. Things that were hidden in darkness are now in light. I see myself as able to forgive… to love… I even see talents in myself that I didn’t see before. Tasha Smith

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Many equate God with consciousness

• Consciousness is an impersonal quality of Divinity expressed as awareness and is nondualistic and nonlinear. David R. Hawkins
• Consciousness is like infinite space that is capable of awareness. Conscious awareness is a quality of the Divine Essence. David R. Hawkins
• God is not found in places. God is found in consciousness. Joel Goldsmith
• God is often said to be the creator and the source of all creation. So is consciousness. Our entire personal world— everything we see, hear, taste, smell, and touch; every thought, feeling, fantasy, intimation, hope, and fear—is a form that consciousness has taken on. Consciousness is the source and creator of everything we know. Peter Russell
• God is omniscient, all-knowing. So too, consciousness is the essence and source of all our knowing. It lies behind all understanding. Peter Russell
• Identifying God with the light of consciousness brings new meaning and significance to many traditional descriptions of God. Whatever is taking place in my mind, whatever I may be thinking, believing, feeling or sensing, the one thing I cannot doubt is consciousness. Consciousness is my only absolute, unquestionable truth. If the faculty of consciousness is God, then God is the truth. Peter Russell
• If God is reality, And if reality is consciousness, Then God is consciousness. Deepak Chopra
• Consciousness, fully awake to itself, is the Light of God. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

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Consciousness is often spoken of in terms of light

• Consciousness, fully awake to itself, is the Light of God. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
• Consciousness itself was often spoken of in terms of light. The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation spoke of “the self-originated Clear Light, eternally unborn… shining forth within one’s own mind.” St. John referred to “the true light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.” Peter Russell
• As each of us awakens, it impacts human consciousness at a collective level. It is like dropping a tiny pebble of light into a dark pool of unconsciousness. Ripples of light! Leonard Jacobson
• Consciousness equals energy = love = awareness = light = wisdom = beauty = truth = purity. It’s all the same trip. Ram Dass
• Consciousness is a light directed outward. Boris Pasternak
• Every time you create a gap in the stream of mind, the light of your consciousness grows stronger. Eckhart Tolle
• I sense that stepping into the light is also a powerful metaphor for consciousness, for the birth of the knowing mind, for the simple and yet momentous coming of the sense of self into the world of the mental. Antonio Damasio
• Let’s shine the light of consciousness on places where we can hope to find what we are seeking. Marshall B. Rosenberg
• Life is light and consciousness. Beyond this world and other worlds, beyond time and space and dimension, beyond what we call duality, is God. Frederick Lenz
• Light can not be exhausted even if innumerable pictures are projected by it. So does life fill every shape to the brim and return to its source, when the shape breaks down.  Rupert Spira
• 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. Sri Aurobindo
• Peter Russell argues that the fourth state of consciousness is that of the pure white light itself, not filtered or affected in any way by the objects of consciousness. This pure self-awareness is your ultimate consciousness. It is reported to be a state of peace and bliss—an awareness that the pure consciousness experienced is but a concentration point within a single universal consciousness. Bernard Haisch
• The fires of suffering become the light of consciousness. Eckhart Tolle
• The light of consciousness has no mind to change or alter anything. There is no sense that anything needs to change, but it does change. Adyashanti
• I was fascinated to find that [in the ancient scriptures], as in modern physics, light was a recurrent theme. Consciousness itself was often spoken of in terms of light. The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation spoke of “the self-originated Clear Light, eternally unborn… shining forth within one’s own mind.” St. John referred to “the true light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.” Peter Russell
• The one “I am” at the heart of all creation, Thou art the light of life. Shvetashvatara Upanishad
• The way the universe evolves in consciousness of itself and causes itself to be. We are just this blessed consciousness, nothing more, nothing less. We are the light inside light that fuses into the atoms of our bodies; we are the fire that whirls across the stellar deeps and dances all things into being. David Zindell
• There is nothing wrong with duality as long as it does not create conflict. Multiplicity and variety without strife is joy. In pure consciousness there is light. For warmth, contact is needed. Above the unity of being is the union of love. Love is the purpose of duality. Nisargadatta Maharaj
• The light of consciousness has no mind to change or alter anything. When you start to see the light that you really are, the light waking up in you, the radiance, you realize it has no intention to change you. It has no intention to harmonize. It has no agenda. It just happens. The Truth is the only thing you’ll ever run into that has no agenda. Everything else will have an agenda. Adyashanti

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There are parallels between physical light and the light of consciousness

• The more I explored this inner light, the more I saw close parallels with the light of physics. Physical light has no mass, and is not part of the material world. The same is true of consciousness; it is immaterial. Physical light seems to be fundamental to the universe. The light of consciousness is likewise fundamental; without it there would be no experience. Peter Russell
• Again we see close parallels between consciousness and physical light. The light of physics does not exist in space and time; nor does the light of consciousness. In physics, light is absolute, not space and time. In the realm of mind, the light of consciousness is absolute, the common ground of all experience, including our experience of space and time. Both lights are intrinsically unknowable–at least in the way that everything else is known.  Both are invariant. Every photon of light is an identical quantum of action. The same is true of consciousness. The light of consciousness shining in me, is the same light that shines in you. These parallels suggest that the physical world and the world of mind share a common ground–a common ground that we experience as light. Monotheistic religions call this common ground God–and, not surprisingly, this God has many of the attributes and qualites of light.  Peter Russell
• Both physical light and consciousness are intrinsically unknowable–at least in the way that everything else is known. Both are invariant. Every photon of light is an identical quantum of action. The same is true of consciousness. The light of consciousness shining in me, is the same light that shines in you.  Peter Russell
• I began to wonder whether there was some deeper significance to these similarities. Were they pointing to a more fundamental connection between the light of the physical world and the light of consciousness? Do physical reality and the reality of the mind share the same common ground–a ground whose essence is light? Peter Russell

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Consciousness is the light that illuminates experience…

• Just as the sun shines the rays of its light on an object in order to illuminate it, so awareness directs the light of its knowing towards a thought, feeling, sensation or perception in order to know it. However, just as the sun cannot shine its own light on itself because it is already standing at itself, so awareness cannot direct the light of its knowing towards itself because there is no distance from itself to itself.  Rupert Spira
• The light of consciousness is all that is necessary. You are the light. Eckhart Tolle
• As you watch your mind, you discover your self as the watcher. When you stand motionless, only watching, you discover your self as the light behind the watcher. The source of light is dark, unknown is the source of knowledge. That source alone is. Go back to that source and abide there. Nisargadatta Maharaj
• A quiet mind is all you need. All else will happen rightly, once your mind is quiet. As the sun on rising makes the world active, so does self- awareness affect changes in the mind. In the light of calm and steady self- awareness inner energies wake up and work miracles without effort on your part. Nisargadatta Maharaj
• Awareness is ever there. It need not be realized. Open the shutter of the mind, and it will be flooded with light. Nisargadatta Maharaj
• To live without awareness is to live as the deaf, blind and dumb in a world of vibrant light and sound. Belsebuub
• The radiance of God is the light of awareness that reveals the divinity of all that exists. David R. Hawkins
• All experience is illuminated, or made knowable, by the light of pure Knowing. Rupert Spira
• An unawakened person sees only his mind, which is merely a reflection of the light of pure consciousness arising from the Heart. Ramana Maharshi
• Awareness is the light that illuminates all experience. Rupert Spira
• Being aware is the very light of knowing with which all experience is known. Rupert Spira
• Our self – luminous, open, empty Awareness – cannot be enlightened. It is already the light that illuminates all experience. Nor can a separate self be enlightened, for when the separate self faces the light of Awareness, it vanishes, just as a shadow does when exposed to the sun. Rupert Spira
• The presence of awareness always shines with the same brightness, behind and in the midst of all experience. All experience is saturated with its presence. All that is necessary is to ‘turn round’. Rupert Spira
• Watch your mind, how it comes into being, how it operates. As you watch your mind, you discover yourself as the watcher. When you stand motionless, only watching, you discover your self as the light behind the watcher. Nisargadatta Maharaj
• What I do must be done in the sunlight of awareness. Martha Graham
• Awareness is the light that shines on everything, but cannot and needs not shine on itself. Leo Hartong
• The Self is the one Reality that always exists, and it is by the light of the Self that all other things are seen. Ramana Maharshi
• Here is an imprecise analogy (all words are dualistic). Awareness is like a pure white light behind thought. The “thinking mind” is like a prism that disperses the light into apparently separate colors. When life is lived solely through thought, everything appears to be totally separate. From that perspective, there is a “you” that is separate from life and therefore inherently incomplete and lacking. This causes conflict, suffering, and searching. When it is recognized that your true nature is the pure white light (non-dual awareness), peace of mind is realized. That does not necessarily mean that thought stops arising. It may quiet or it may continue moving. It doesn’t matter either way. You have realized what you really are. Some fall into the apparent trap of trying to suppress thought and “stay in awareness.” This can result in a bias against thinking or even hostility towards, or mistrust of, intellectuals and intellectual pursuits. To deny the intellect is to deny awareness itself. In realizing that your true nature is awareness (the white light), you see that awareness is appearing as every thought (every color). When this is seen, you no longer seek a sense of self in one thought or the other. You are not trying to convince everyone that your color is the right color. Yet thought is not denied. The rainbow of colors is enjoyed and appreciated. The colors are none other than expressions of the light.  Scott Kiloby
• Just as the beam of light from a flashlight can be directed towards an object but cannot be directed towards the bulb from which it emanates, so awareness, in the form of attention or mind, can direct the light of its knowing towards objective experience but cannot direct itself towards itself. Rupert Spira
• Each thought, each action in the sunlight of awareness becomes sacred. Thich Nhat Hanh

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…and also illuminates the mind

• God illumines the mind and shines within it. One cannot know God by means of the mind. One can but turn the mind inwards and merge it in God. Ramana Maharshi
• God only pours out his light into the mind after having subdued the rebellion of the will by an altogether heavenly gentleness which charms and wins it. Blaise Pascal
• This pure Mind, the source of everything, Shines forever and on all with the brilliance of its own perfection. Zen Teachings of Huang Po
• Your mind is made up of light. We call it the dharmakaya, the clear light of reality. The transcendental eternal light is everywhere. It’s the light of god or whatever you want to call it. Frederick Lenz

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Consciousness is also a light that illuminates itself

• In order to shine on the moon, the sun’s light must travel a certain distance through space. But in order to illuminate itself, the sun doesn’t need to go anywhere or do anything. The sun’s nature is illumination. Just by being itself the sun illuminates itself. In other words, for the sun, to be itself and to illuminate itself are the same. Illuminating itself is not something that the sun does; it is what it is. It is self-illuminating.  Rupert Spira
• The sun illuminates itself by being the sun, by shining. Rupert Spira

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Each of us is the light of consciousness, part of the one consciousness that is God

• You are the light of consciousness and also the witness of this light. You are pure awareness. Mooji
• You are the light of the world. You are the consciousness that illuminates the world. Know yourself as that, and that’s  freedom, liberation, awakening, the end of suffering and madness. And it’s  happening right here. Eckhart Tolle
• You cannot behave appropriately, unless you perceive correctly. Once you perceive you are a beam of Light, that comes from the mind of God, you will carry yourself differently. Carlos Santana
• Although you appear in earthly form Your essence is pure Consciousness. You are the fearless guardian of Divine Light. Rumi
• If God is the light–or what lies behind the light–then one manifestation of God is as the light of consciousness shining within every one of us. This realization leads to one of the most contentious and confusing of all mystical assertions–the statement “I am God.” Peter Russell
• The drop of consciousness, which is individual Spirit, is like a ray of light emanating from the sun. The individual ray is really no different from the sun. When consciousness stops identifying itself as the ray, it comes to know itself as the sun. Beings have merged into that state. Michael A. Singer
• The sun of awareness is shining in you. Nhat Hanh

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We have light within us…

• Within You is the Light of a Thousand Suns. – Within You is Unimaginable Beauty. Robert Adams
• Those who seek the Light are merely covering their eyes. The Light is in them now.  Enlightenment is but a recognition, not a change at all.  A Course in Miracles
• There is always a light within us that is free from all sorrow and grief, no matter how much we may be experiencing suffering. Patanjali
• There is a world within – a world of thought and feeling and power; of light and beauty, and although invisible, its forces are mighty. Charles F. Haanel
• There is a light within each person, and it lights up the whole universe. If it does not shine, there is darkness. Elaine Pagels
• The light is within. It is already there. Take your time to see it. Swami Satchidananda
• He that has light within his own clear breast May sit in the centre, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts Benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself his own dungeon. John Milton
• For within you is the light of the world — the only light that can be shed upon the Path. Mabel Collins
• There is a light within every soul; it only needs the clouds that overshadow it to be broken for it to beam forth. Hazrat Inayat Khan
• Within each of us is a light, awake, encoded in the fibers of our existence. Divine ecstasy is the totality of this marvelous creation experienced in the hearts of humanity. Tony Samara

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…light that arises within the heart

• There is a quiet light that shines in every heart. It draws no attention to itself though it is always secretly there. It is what illuminates our minds to see beauty, our desire to seek possibility and our hearts to love life. Without this subtle quickening our days would be empty and wearisome, and no horizon would ever awaken our longing. Our passion for life is quietly sustained from somewhere in us that is wedded to the energy and excitement of life. This shy inner light is what enables us to recognize and receive our very presence here as blessing. John O’Donohue
• There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled.
• The light which shines in the eye is really the light of the heart.. The light which fills the heart is the light of God, which is pure and separate from the light of intellect and sense. Rumi
• Your heart is the light of this world. Don’t cover it with your mind. Mooji
• Faith is seeing light with your heart when all your eyes see is darkness. Barbara Johnson
• Love is a light that shines from heart to heart. John Denver
• The innermost light, shining peacefully and timelessly in the heart, is the real Guru. All others merely show the way. Nisargadatta Maharaj
• Light belongs to the heart and spirit. Light attracts people, it shows the way, and when we see it in the distance, we follow it. Ricardo Legorreta
• The tiny flame that lights up the human heart is like a blazing torch that comes down from heaven to light up the paths of mankind. For in one soul are contained the hopes and feelings of all Mankind. Khalil Gibran
• Deep in our Hearts, the Light of Heaven is shining. Rumi
• Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart. Khalil Gibran
• If my heart were not light, I would die. Joanna Baillie

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The light within us is a divine spark of God

• All living creatures are sparks from the radiation of God’s brilliance, emerging from God like the rays of the sun. Hildegard of Bingen
• All of us contain a divine, expressive spark, a creative candle intended to light our path and that of our fellows. Julia Cameron
• Be aware of your own worth, use all of your power to achieve it. Create an ocean from a dewdrop. Do not beg for light from the moon, obtain it from the spark within you. Muhammad Iqbal
• Each Warrior of the Light contains within him the spark of God. Paulo Coelho
• From my point of view, God is the light that illuminates the darkness, even if it does not dissolve it, and a spark of divine light is within each of us. Pope Francis
• God dropped a spark down into everyone, And if we find and fan it to a blaze, It’ll spring up and glow, like–like the sun, And light the wandering out of stony ways. John Masefield
• His divine spark lives within me, a presence that will never leave. L. LaFevers
• I am the living spark of the divine and no one and nothing can blow out my light. Aimee Davies
• I have realised that the Divine is already in everyone and everything. Everything radiates with the spark of Eternity if we have the inner sight to see it.  Aimee Davies
• If a tiny spark of God’s love already burns within you, do not expose it to the wind, for it may get blown out…. Stay quiet with God. Do not spend your time in useless chatter…. Do not give yourself to others so completely that you have nothing left for yourself. Carlo Borromeo
• Know that you are a spark of God and can exist fully only within the realization of that profound truth. As such, you are a light and inspiration to others. Harold Klemp
• We have in us a divine spark that you can see. It’s a Light that shines in the human being. It’s our direct access to truth, our direct access to God. Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

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This inner light is what we truly are

• The Light in you is the unalterable truth of who you are. You can deny it and obscure it, but you cannot uncreate it. Marianne Williamson
• There is a light within each of us that can never be diminished or extinguished. It can only be obscured by forgetting who we are. Deepak Chopra
• The real us is pure love, pure light. Miguel Angel Ruiz
• If we only look within, we will see the Light as if we were seeing our own image in a mirror. Swami Satchidananda
• Ask for light and learn that you are light. A Course in Miracles
• The invincible summer that shines even in the bleakest winter is the unchangeable, ever-present light within you. You are the light you seek. This light can never be turned off or burnt out. This loving light can never leave or forsake you. It is a continuous state. It is your true identity. Darkness was only ever meant to reveal the light of your soul. How can you not love yourself when you are love itself? Aimee Davies

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We are beings of light

• I wish I could show you, when you are lonely or in darkness, the astonishing light of your own Being. Hafez
• You perceive yourself as being solid and physical, limited to a body. You are made up of light, endless mind. The way you see life is a limited state of mind. Frederick Lenz
• You are goodness and mercy and compassion and understanding. You are peace and joy and light. Neale Donald Walsch
• You are a being of light composed of cells of light joined together in a matrix. Frederick Lenz
• You are a Divine creation, a Being of Light who showed up here as a human being at the exact moment you were supposed to. You are the Beloved, a miracle, a part of the eternal perfection. Wayne Dyer
• Ultimately there is light and love and intelligence in this universe. And we are it, we carry that within us, it’s not just something out there, it is within us and this is what we are trying to re-connect with, our original light and love and intelligence, which is who we are, so do not get so distracted by all this other stuff, you know, really remember what we are here on this planet for. Tenzin Palmo
• There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights. Bram Stoker, Dracula

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Our very soul is pure light

• Time and space are but physiological colors which the eye makes, but the Soul is light. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through. Edna St. Vincent Millay
• With all your science can you tell how it is, and whence it is, that light comes into the soul? Henry David Thoreau
• O little souls! as pure as white And crystalline as rays of light Direct from heaven, their source divine; Refracted through the mist of years, How red my setting sun appears, How lurid looks this soul of mine! Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• We believe that every being is divine, is God. Every soul is a sun covered over with clouds of ignorance; the difference between soul and soul is owing to the difference in density of these layers of clouds. Swami Vivekananda
• What is a soul? It’s like electricity – we don’t really know what it is, but it’s a force that can light a room. Ray Charles
• All human souls, never so bedarkened, love light; light once kindled spreads till all is luminous. Thomas Carlyle
• No degree of worldly darkness can extinguish the glow of a soul’s inner light. Wes Fesler
• The inner light actually comes from the soul; it is already inside us. The moment we can have free access to our soul, we will see that this light is coming to the fore to permeate our whole outer existence. Sri Chinmoy
• The moon looks wonderful in this warm evening light, just as a candle flame looks beautiful in the light of morning. Light within light… It seems to me to be a metaphor for the human soul, the singular light within that great general light of existence. Marilynne Robinson
• Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light; I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night. Sarah Williams

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Realise your inner light is the very light of God within you

• The spirit of God, like the sun, always gives all its light at once. The spirit of man resembles the pale moon, which has its phases, its absences and its returns, its lucidity and its spots, its fullness and its disappearance, which borrows all its light from the rays of the sun, and which still dares to intercept them on occasion. Victor Hugo
• The Divine Light is always in man, presenting itself to the senses and to the comprehension, but man rejects it. Giordano Bruno
• Know that you are a spark of God and can exist fully only within the realization of that profound truth. As such, you are a light and inspiration to others. Harold Klemp
• Just behind the darkness of closed eyes shines the light of God. When you behold that light in meditation, hold onto it with devotional zeal. Feel yourself inside it: That is where God dwells. Paramahansa Yogananda
• Once you have the light of God within you, you see things within yourself that you did not know existed. Things that were hidden in darkness are now in light. I see myself as able to forgive… to love… I even see talents in myself that I didn’t see before. Tasha Smith
• I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the colour and fragrance of a flower – the Light in my darkness, the Voice in my silence. Helen Keller
• Deep within the self is the Light of God. It radiates throughout the expanse of His creation. Through the Guru’s teachings, the darkness of spiritual ignorance is dispelled. The heart lotus flower blooms forth and eternal peace is obtained, as one’s light merges into the Supreme Light. Guru Amar Das
• God creates each soul differently, so that when all the mud is finally cleared away, His light will shine through it in a beautiful, colorful, totally new pattern. M. Scott Peck
• The light which shines in the eye is really the light of the heart.. The light which fills the heart is the light of God, which is pure and separate from the light of intellect and sense. Rumi

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Love is to realise the divine light within you is the same light that is within me

• It is love that says I recognise the light in you and I know it is the same light in me. Aimee Davies
• It was a Nepalese greeting. It meant: The light within me bows to the light within you. Jennifer Donnelly
• The light in you is what the universe longs to behold. All living things are still before you, for they recognize Who walks with you. The light you carry is their own. And thus they see in you their holiness, saluting you as savior and as God. Accept their reverence, for it is due to Holiness Itself, which walks with you, transforming in Its gentle light all things unto Its likeness and Its purity. A Course in Miracles
• I salute the light within your eyes where the whole universe dwells. For when you are at that center within you and I am at that place within me, we shall be one. Crazy Horse
• In all the people I meet – though some may be governed by the self-centered nature and may not know their potential at all – I see that divine spark. And that’s what I concentrate on. All people look beautiful to me; they look like shining lights to me. I always have the feeling of being thankful for these beautiful people who walk the earth with me. Peace Pilgrim

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Our inner light is a source of love

• The origin of love is the beautiful light of the soul. Ryuho Okawa
• Love is the soul’s light, the taste of morning, no me, no we, no claim of being. Rumi

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Our inner light is a source of freedom and power

• All poets have signalized their consciousness of rare moments when they were superior to themselves, – when a light, a freedom, a power came to them which lifted them to performances far better than they could reach at other times. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Freedom is knowing I can rest in the light of my inner Being even when the day is dark. I can be the sky even when the wind blows a mighty gale. Aimee Davies
• You have a light inside you – feel its glow. You have the power to speak and act and make things manifest in the world – let your wisdom and light guide you as you do. Michael Neill

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Our inner light is a source of energy

• Stop sourcing for external energy source to charge yourself. Seek the light within and it will brighten you more, remember you truly are one amazing, beautiful, gorgeous soul. Revathi Sankaran
• There is a well of infinity hidden within each Soul. There you will find an incredible energy source, beyond your broadest understanding. It is Light and Healing. The Force of Nature. The essence of Love. Royce Addington

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Our inner light is a source of inspiration and clarity

• When your mind is functioning correctly, there is an out streaming of light from within in the form of inspiration, hunches, leadings, and intuitive flashes – trust this process of inspiration. “In the twinkling of an eye” ideas and plans may flow into your mind. Eric Butterworth
• Use the Light that dwells within you to regain your natural clarity of sight. Lao Tzu
• To send light into the darkness of men’s hearts — such is the duty of the artist. Schumann
• Learn the craft of knowing how to open your heart and to turn on your creativity. There’s a light inside of you. Judith Jamison

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Our inner light radiates from us

• The cosmic spotlight isn’t pointed at you; it radiates from within you. Marianne Williamson
• What is soul? It’s like electricity – we don’t really know what it is, but it’s a force that can light a room. Ray Charles
• 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
• Just as a river by night shines with the reflected light of the moon, so too do you shine with the light of your family, your people, and your God. So you are never far from home, never alone, wherever you go. Karen Cushman
• When you possess light within, you see it externally. Anais Nin
• There is no way of telling people that they are all walking around shining like the sun. Thomas Merton

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Discover your inner light and turn it on

• Spirituality is recognizing the divine light that is within us all. It doesn’t belong to any particular religion; it belongs to everyone. Muhammad Ali
• All the wonders you seek are within yourself. We should seek to discover our own special light. Fyodor Tyutchev
• It is with color that you render light, though you must also feel this light, have it within yourself. Henri Matisse
• We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light. Earl Nightingale
• Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light. Brene Brown

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Let the light of God fill you…

• Let there be many windows to your soul, that all the glory of the world may beautify it. Ella Wheeler Wilcox
• The light which shines in the eye is really the light of the heart.. The light which fills the heart is the light of God, which is pure and separate from the light of intellect and sense. Rumi
• Grace comes into the soul, as the morning sun into the world: first a dawning, then a light, and at last the sun in his full and excellent brightness. Thomas Adams
• The windows of my soul I throw Wide open to the sun. John Greenleaf Whittier
• He opened a window in my heart, and the light of the world shined in. David Letterman
• Fill each day with light and heart. John Tillotson
• A pure heart, open to the Light, will be filled with the elixir of Truth. Rumi

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…even in your brokenness

• Our scars make us real. Our imperfections make us beautiful. Our brokenness is where the light gets in. Aimee Davies
• There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.  Leonard Cohen
• There’s a crack (or cracks) in everyone…that’s how the light of God gets in. Elizabeth Gilbert
• Celebrate the cracks, because that’s how the light comes in. Groucho Marx
• It’s in the darkest moments when the cracks allow the inner light to come out. Edward James Olmos
• When your heart is broken, when your heart has cracks in it, it lets the light in. Ellen DeGeneres
• Imperfection is the prerequisite for grace. Light only gets in through the cracks. Philip Yancey

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Live in the light of your soul

• Do not live in the shadow of the masters for ever. Learn to live in the light of your soul. Life deserves full expression. Amit Ray
• Do not become the candle that gives light to others but itself remains in darkness. Do not follow the desires of your lower self. Abdul-Qadir Gilani
• Keep inviolate an area of light and peace within you. Corazon Aquino

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See the light in others

• Celebrate the best in people. Find the light that shines not on us, but within us, when we trust enough to let it out. Dewitt Jones

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Don’t fear the light within…

• The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. Plato
• Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us. Marianne Williamson
• Don’t fear the light within. May it ignite the Sacred Flame in your soul. Paulo Coelho
• The dictate of the light says: Know yourself and what you are. The dark replies, By all means, but then become afraid. Tanith Lee
• Turn to the light. Don’t fear the shadow it creates. Ted Dekker
• We are taught to conform and become scared to shine our light and be who we are. Aimee Davies

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…and neither fear the darkness

• Don’t fear the darkness if you carry the light within. Sivananda
• Afraid that our inner light will be extinguished or our inner darkness exposed, we hide our true identities from each other. In the process, we become separated from our own souls. We end up living divided lives, so far removed from the truth we hold within that we cannot know the ‘integrity that comes from being what you are. Parker J. Palmer
• All darkness vanished, when I saw the Lamp within my heart. Kabir
• Don’t be afraid of the shadows, it only means there’s a light nearby. Amy Lee

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Know that no amount of darkness can snuff out your inner light

• Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness. Anne Frank
• Keep your flame lit, and you will never feel darkness. J. Parker
• Even a small star shines in the darkness. Finnish proverb
• There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of even one small candle. Robert Alden
• Shine the light onto your darkest fears
• Fear can only grow in darkness. Once you face fear with light, you win. Steve Maraboli
• I think that most people would rather face the light of a real enemy than the darkness of their imagined fears. Max Brooks
• Fear grows in darkness; if you think there’s a bogeyman around, turn on the light. Dorothy Thompson

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Light always prevails in the end

• In dark times, remember light always prevails against darkness in the end
• Even so, one step from my grave, I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of darkness will in time, Be crushed by the spirit of light. Boris Pasternak
• Every light has its shadow, and every shadow hath a succeeding morning. Copernicus
• I have seen the sun with a little ray of distant light challenge all the powers of darkness, and without violence and noise, climbing up the hill, hath made night so retire that its memory was lost in the joys and sprightliness of the morning. Jeremy Taylor
• Light always prevails over Even the tiniest candle dispels the dark. Aimee Davies
• Just remember, a dark shadow needs light to exist but light doesn’t need darkness to be luminous. Gwen Hayes
• Sadness flies on the wings of the morning and out of the heart of darkness comes the light. Jean Giraudoux
• Light itself is a great corrective. A thousand wrongs and abuses that are grown in darkness disappear, like owls and bats, before the light of day. James A. Garfield
• Visualize God’s light each day and send it to someone who needs help. Exercise the body, it is the temple of the soul. Peace Pilgr

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Our very purpose in life is to be a light in the dark …

• As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being. Carl Jung
• Be the light in the dark, be the calm in the storm and be at peace while at war. Mike Dolan
• Darkness is only driven out with light, not more darkness. Martin Luther King, Jr.
• As the calendar approaches the year’s darkest night, reflect on those who have brought you light. How have you yourself brought a glimmer of light into someone else’s darkness? Kathy Coffey
• Life isn’t just about darkness or light, rather it’s about finding light within the darkness. Laandon Parham
• Stop looking for the Light. Be It. Lori Moreno
• The hero is the one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by. The saint is the man who walks through the dark paths of the world, himself a light.  Felix Adler
• We must enhance the light, not fight the darkness. D. Gordon

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… to recognise ourselves as the light …

• The parable of the soul and the sun: There was once a soul who knew itself to be the light. This was a new soul, and so, anxious for experience. “I am the light,” it said. “I am the light.” Yet all the knowing of it and the all the saying of it could not substitute for the experience of it. For in the realm from which the this little soul emerged, there was nothing BUT the light. Every soul was magnificent and shone with the brilliance of My awesome light. And so the little soul in question was as a candle in the sun. In the midst of the grandest light, of which it was a part, it could not see itself, nor experience itself as Who It Really Is. Now it came to pass that this soul yearned and yearned to know itself. And so great was its yearning that I one day said “Do you know, Little One, what you must do to satisfy this yearning of yours? You must separate yourself from the rest of us and then you must call upon yourself the darkness.” “What is the darkness, oh Holy One?” the little soul asked. “That which you are not.” I replied and the little soul understood. And so this the soul did, removing itself from all Yea, and going even unto another realm. And in this realm, the soul had the power to call into its experience all sorts of darkness. And this it did. And yet in the midst of all the darkness did it cry out, “Father, father, why have you forsaken me?” But I have never forsaken you, but stand by you always, ready to remind you of Who You Really Are, ready, always ready to call you home. Neale Donald Walsch
• The light of consciousness has no mind to change or alter anything. When you start to see the light that you really are, the light waking up in you, the radiance, you realize it has no intention to change you. It has no intention to harmonize. It has no agenda. It just happens. The Truth is the only thing you’ll ever run into that has no agenda. Everything else will have an agenda. Adyashanti
• The ray of sunlight went continuously exploring the universe, looking, getting involved, thinking, getting identified with this and that.  And suddenly gets very unhappy and thinks “Who Am I?”  Suddenly the sunlights stops doing and becomes aware of being.  And becomes aware it’s not just here, but back there, there’s an enormous depth to it.  And it becomes aware its connected to the sun.  And that frees it from fear.  A deep trust in life arises because it feels  connected to something vast that is you and yet transcends who you are.  Eckhart Tolle
• The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God. Victor Hugo

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…by being temporarily separated from the source Light…

• Our purpose here is to be separated from the light. Our purpose here is to be separated from the oneness. We are here to feel pain. To feel the loneliness. To truly understand how difficult it is to be separated from God. In our struggles to love, live, and cherish we get to do something new that can’t be done when there is only peace, light, and love. Here we have the light and dark. Both… Rachel E (Near death experience)

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… to reach out and pull others out of the dark into the light

• Dare to reach out your hand into the darkness, to pull another hand into the light. Norman B. Rice
• None of us can ever save himself; we are the instruments of one another’s salvation, and only by the hope that we give to others do we lift ourselves out of the darkness into light. Dean Koontz
• We do not lead others into the Light by stepping into the darkness with them. Melody Beattie

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Therefore, shine your light onto the darkness and curse it not

• Anything that you fight with or struggle against grows larger. You give power to lower energies by focusing upon them. You don’t eliminate darkness by arguing with it. The only way to eliminate darkness is to turn on a light. Doreen Virtue
• Be a light unto the darkness, and curse it not. Neale Donald Walsch
• Let thy light shine, then, in dark places. Edgar Cayce
• You will fear the darkness only to the extent that you yourself are not providing light. Marianne Williamson
• There is no way to get dark out of a room other than to let light in. The only way to get stress out of your being is to let in relaxation. You cannot be relaxed and stressful at the same time. Josè Silva and Burt Goldman
• Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to switch on the light. Albus Dumbledore
• It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness. Chinese Proverb
• At a tender age I discovered that it isn’t doing spectacular things that makes you remarkable in the eyes of God, but instead, it is when you light just one candle to dispel a little bit of darkness that you are doing something tremendous. And if, as a global people, we put all the little bits of good together, we will overwhelm the world. Desmond Tutu
• Let me light my lamp, says the tiny star; and never debate whether it will dispel the darkness. Rabindranath Tagore

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Shine your inner light for all to see…

• I have come to light the lamp of Love in your hearts, to see that it shines day by day with added luster. Sathya Sai Baba
• Let your light shine. Be a source of strength and courage. Share your wisdom. Radiate love. Wilferd Peterson
• Let your light shine. Shine within you so that it can shine on someone else. Let your light shine. Oprah Winfrey
• Nothing can dim the light which shines from within. Maya Angelou
• Rise above… cultivate the light you have within you, and it will shine through as a radiant expression that will be seen by others. Gordon B. Hinckley
• Shine your light on love and truth and your soul will glow. Anthony D. Williams
• Someday perhaps the inner light will shine forth from us, and then we’ll need no other light. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Sunshine can reflect on clean water but not on dirty water. God’s light will be reflected by those persons with a pure heart. Baba Hari Dass
• The light of God is in you. Let your light shine! Eleazar
• Shine your unique light and be a beacon of hope for those around you. Aimee Davies
• To shine your brightest light is to be who you truly are. Roy T. Bennett
• To shine your light is for your divinity to radiate out from you. Anthony Lambert
• We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won’t need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don’t fire cannons to call attention to their shining they just shine. Dwight L. Moody
• Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine. Anthony J. D’Angelo
• You don’t have to blow out the other fellow’s light to let your own shine. Bernard Baruch
• Always radiate positive currents of… Light, Goodness, Love, Kindness, Hope and Determination. Robert Muller
• Calmly in the precious present, be a light for love and wisdom in the window on your world. Kevin Flynn
• God requires his people to shine as lights in the world. Ellen G. White

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…shining it into the world for the benefit of all

• It’s hard to be a bright light in a dim world. Gary Starta
• Take your light and take your love into the world as the only weapons that we need to make this world truly glorious, truly beautiful, and astonish all of life. Hafsat Abiola
• The more light you allow within you, the brighter the world you live in will be. Shakti Gawain
• If there is any message I can give, it’s not about meditating and leaving your body and taking your Light Being out of this Earth. Indeed, not. It is about bringing the Light into this Earth. Stay here. Be an anchor. Let the Light come in through you into this world. Don’t abandon this world. We need you. We need you here. We need you to be present. And we need you to be open, with an open heart. Anne Horn

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Become a channel for God’s light…

• As we become purer channels for God’s light, we develop an appetite for the sweetness that is possible in this world. A miracle worker is not geared toward fighting the world that is, but toward creating the world that could be. Marianne Williamson
• What am I? Am I the bulb that carries the light, or am I the light of which the bulb is a vehicle? Joseph Campbell
• Whoever possesses God in their being has Him in a divine manner, and He shines out to them in all things; for them all things taste of God and in all things it is God’s image that they see. Meister Eckhart
• The robe of flesh wears thin, and with the years God shines through all things. John Buchan
• It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but that you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it. Arthur Conan Doyle
• Lord, make me an instrument of your peace; where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy. Francis of Assisi
• Your life is something opaque, not transparent, as long as you look at it in an ordinary human way. But if you hold it up against the light of God’s goodness, it shines and turns transparent, radiant and bright. And then you ask yourself in amazement: Is this really my own life I see before me? Albert Schweitzer

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…by reflecting the light of God

• The sun shines equally on diamond and charcoal, but the former has developed qualities that enable it to reflect the sunlight brilliantly, while the latter is unable to reflect the sunlight. Emulate the diamond in your dealings with people. Brightly reflect the light of God’s love. Paramahansa Yogananda
• There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. Edith Wharton
• When a sunbeam falls on a transparent substance, the substance itself becomes brilliant, and radiates light from itself. So too Spirit bearing souls, illumined by Him, finally become spiritual themselves, and their grace is sent forth to others. Saint Basil

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Be a light for others…

• Sometimes our light goes out but is brought into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light. Albert Schweitzer
• Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. Gautama Buddha
• We cannot hold a torch to light another’s path without brightening our own. Ben Sweetland
• God has bestowed upon you intelligence and knowledge. Do not extinguish the lamp of Divine Grace and do not let the candle of wisdom die out in the darkness of lust and error. For a wise man approaches with his torch to light up the path of mankind. Kahlil Gibran
• Learn to light a candle in the darkest moments of someone’s life. Be the light that helps others see; it is what gives life its deepest significance. Roy T. Bennett
• You have to find what sparks a light in you so that you in your own way can illuminate the world. Oprah Winfrey
• To send light into the darkness of men’s hearts – such is the duty of the artist. Robert Schumann
• We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity. Malcolm X
• Truly great people emit a light that warms the hearts of those around them. Banana Yoshimoto
• If someone is miserable, moody and taking it out on you, don’t take it personally. Don’t react. Give a little light. Share a smile. Give them a hug. Your greatest gift is always your inner joy. Aimee Davies
• Our role in life is to bring the light of our own souls to the dim places around us. Joan D. Chittister
• Lord, make my life A window for Your light To shine through And a mirror to reflect Your love To all I meet. Amen. Robert H. Schuller
• The aim of every hierarchy is always to imitate God so as to take on His form… the task of every hierarchy is to receive and to pass on undiluted purification, the divine light, and the understanding which brings perfection. Maximus the Confessor
• If your inner being changes, your whole outer life will be totally different. It will have a different fragrance, a different beauty, a different grace. And when your inner being is changed and becomes a flame of light, you will become a light unto others too. You will become a beckoning light, a great herald of a new dawn. Your very presence will trigger revolutions in other people’s lives. Rajneesh
• The closer we grow to our inner light, we feel a natural urge to share it. We all long for meaningful work, some creative endeavor that will be our ministry, by which the energies within us might flow out to help heal the world. Marianne Williamson
• The heart of a friend gives out sufficient light for us in the dark to rise by. Helen Keller
• We should be shining lamps, giving light to all around us. Catherine McAuley

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…and help others kindle their own inner light

• Just as one candle lights another and can light thousands of other candles, so one heart illuminates another heart and can illuminate thousands of other hearts. Leo Tolstoy
• Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle. Happiness never decreases by being shared. Gautama Buddha

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Our inner light shining through us is what true beauty is

• People are like stained glass windows, the true beauty can be seen only when there is light from within. The darker the night, the brighter the windows. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
• As we open our hearts to others, we begin to discover the truth of our own inner beauty, inner strength and inner light. Susan Jeffers
• Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart. Kahlil Gibran
• True beauty is a ray That springs from the sacred depths of the soul, and illuminates the body, just as life springs from the kernel of a stone and gives colour and scent to a flower. Rumi

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To embrace the light within and shine it onto the world is the very reason we are here

• We all have a divine mission on earth. Let that mission be to inspire love and embrace the light within. Micheal Teal
• We didn’t come to earth to get anything. We came to awaken our full potential and infuse this dimension with divine light. Derek Rydall

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Surrender yourself to joy

• Blessed be those souls who are glad! They are a salve for sorrow and fatigue. A sun in days of darkness, a joy in sorrow, a ray of heaven shining through the uncertainness of earth. Candace Wheeler
• Joy is a light that fills you with hope and faith and love. Adela Rogers St. Johns
• Joy and sorrow are the light and shade of life; without light and shade no picture is clear. Hazrat Inayat Khan

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Burn away negativity

• Negativity is an addiction to the bleak shadow that lingers around every human form … you can transfigure negativity by turning it toward the light of your soul. John O’Donohue
• If the voice within threatens your self-worth in any way, filling you with fear or shame, it is not the quiet, small voice of intuition. The insidious whisper of the critic has taken over again. Shine the loving light of awareness on it and let it pass over you, without it nesting in your hair. Aimee Davies

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Choose the light

• We don’t reach the light through endless analysis of the dark. We reach the light by choosing the light. Marianne Williamson

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Love all…

• Nothing glows brighter than the heart awakened to the unseen light of love that lives within it. Guy Finley
• Westay closed in a tight bud, never blossoming, fearing the world will hurt us. But light cannot enter a closed space. When we open our heart to love again, sun streams into every window of the We become alive again. Spring returns and the whole world smiles and shimmers. Aimee Davies
• Focus on love rather than fear. Connect with the Divine that flows through you, and allow the power of love to radiate through your being. Remind yourself that fear is simply an absence of love, just as darkness is an absence of light. When we turn on a light, the darkness simply cannot exist. Likewise, if we can illuminate our fear with pure love, the fear cannot help but vanish. Amanda Harvey
• I want a blaze of light to flame in me forever in a timeless, dear love of everything. And why should I pretend to want anything else? Jack Kerouac
• It is still breathtaking to me to watch people bring love, preciousness and kindness to their inner world, allowing the light of God to shine through their eyes so that the beauty of their soul can come forth. Debbie Ford
• Light up the fire of love inside and blaze the thoughts away. Rumi
• Like the sun’s rays that cause the seed to stir within its husk, love’s radiant energy penetrates the facade of the false self, calling forth resources hidden deep within us. John Welwood
• Love changes darkness into light and makes the heart take a wingless flight. Helen Steiner Rice
• Love is a magic ray emitted from the burning core of the soul and illuminating the surrounding earth. It enables us to perceive life as a beautiful dream between one awakening and another. Khalil Gibran
• Love is an emerald. Its brilliant light wards off dragons On this treacherous path. Rumi
• Love is the greatest light, the brightest torch, and will always be the greatest instrument of change. Jennifer Beals
• Love must be as much a light as it is a flame. Henry David Thoreau
• Love shows itself more in adversity than in prosperity; as light does, which shines most where the place is darkest. Leonardo da Vinci
• When love is our guiding light, we can break through barriers to be of loving service to the world. Marianne Williamson
• The light of love drives away the darkness of guilt. Paulo Coelho
• The light of unconditional love awakens the dormant seed potentials of the soul, helping them ripen, blossom, and bear fruit, allowing us to bring forth the unique gifts that are ours to offer in this life. John Welwood

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…including yourself

• Something magical happens when you begin to love and accept yourself. You start to shine your light again. You realise that you are connected to a deeper Self, a divine spark within. Aimee Davies
• Self-love is a shift more and more from the realms of the mind into the realms of the It re-opens rooms long abandoned and forgotten and lets the light in. The room of joy basks in the inner light of being. Aimee Davies

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Accept yourself

• In accepting yourself, you come home to yourself. Just like the diamond in the rough, the journey teaches you that it is not about becoming something else, but becoming fully what you already are in order to reveal your true light. Aimee Davies
• You are quirky and weird and wonderfully strange, why dim your inner light by wanting to change? Aimee Davies

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Forgive

• Forgiveness is a flicker of light in the heart that re-kindles love both on the inside and outside. Aimee Davies
• If you choose to forgive someone who has wronged you rather than to hate that person, you shift the frequency of your Light. Gary Zukav
• When you forgive, you love. And when you love, God’s light shines through you. Jon Krakauer

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Be you

• Just as the stars shine and shimmer in the darkness of space simply because that’s what they do, shine that luminous light of YOU. When you are being your authentic self, you brighten the whole world. Aimee Davies

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Live from the heart

• When you peer into the world through the eyes of your heart, darkness gives way to light. Robert Beno
• The more the heart is an avid void, the more abundantly light will shine into it. Thich Nhat Hanh
• When light engages the heart, it causes an illumination of the path, a purification of the consciousness, an enlightenment of the intellect and an establishment of the foundations of dhikr and shukr and of beautiful worship. Habib Umar bin Hafez
• An awake heart is like a sky that pours light. Hafez

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Smile

• Smiling engages your heart to beam the radiant light of your soul out through your eyes and into the world. Your shining light is always beautiful… Robert Beno
• A smile is the light in the window of your face that tells people you’re at home.
• When I smile – not only do I feel happy, but also, I bring a ray of light into the lives of others.
• A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside. Denis Waitley

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Plug into God

• As Desmond Tutu once told me on a recent trip to Cape Town, ‘We are only the light bulbs, Richard, and our job is just to remain screwed in!’ Richard Rohr
• If God lights the candle, none can blow it out. Charles Spurgeon

Let go

• When you release what numbs you and holds us you down, your light-filled Being reveals itself. You are returning home to your natural state. Love is who and what you are. Aimee Davies

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Visualise God’s light

• You can visualize God’s light each day and send it to someone who needs help. Your divine nature must reach out and touch the divine nature of another. Within you is the light of the world, it must be shared with the world. Peace Pilgrim
• Visualize God’s light each day and send it to someone who needs help. Exercise the body, it is the temple of the soul. Peace Pilgrim
• Visualize a golden light within you and spread it out. First to those about you – your circle of friends and relatives – and then gradually to the world. Keep on visualizing God’s golden light surrounding our earth. Peace Pilgrim

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Pray

• We need continuing communication from god. One stream of light is not enough. Henry B. Eyring
• Prayer gives us light by which to see and to judge from God’s perspective and from eternity. That is why you must not give up on praying! Pope John Paul II
• Your prayers are your light. Rabia Basri’
• With every prayer and every thought of love, we release the light that will cast out darkness. Marianne Williamson
• There is only one prayer and that is prayer for light, for purity, for perfection. Frederick Lenz
• The power of prayer is like turning on a light as it illuminates God’s purpose for our lives. There is no greater connection to knowing His will other than the word. Thomas Kinkade

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Meditate…

• When we meditate and we are able to stop thought, we get a sense of being beyond the body. Our consciousness expands and we see ourselves as beings of light. Frederick Lenz
• Good friends, how then are meditation and wisdom alike? They are like the lamp and the light it gives forth. If there is a lamp there is light; if there is no lamp there is no light. The lamp is the substance of light; the light is the function of the lamp. Thus, although they have two names, in substance they are not two. Meditation and wisdom are also like this. Huineng
• If there is no meditation, then you are like a blind man in a world of great beauty, light and colour. Jiddu Krishnamurti
• Meditate upon all the perfect light within your own mind! Do this repeatedly and the radiant Bodhisattvas of Wisdom and Laughter will visit you and change your karma forever! Frederick Lenz
• It is only through meditation that slowly slowly more consciousness is created within you, more light is created; more watchfulness, witnessing, happens. And that is the miracle of awareness: if you become aware of anger you become a master of anger. Then it is up to you whether to be angry or not. You are absolutely free to be this way or that way. Rajneesh
• Through meditation one discovers one’s own light. That light you can call your soul, yourself, your God—whatsoever word you choose—or you can remain just silent because it has no name. Rajneesh

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…and rest in silence

• I sense a Threshold: Light to Silence, Silence to Light – an ambiance of inspiration, in which the desire to be, to express, crosses with the possible Light to Silence, Silence to Light crosses in the sanctuary of art. Louis Kahn
• When silence reaches an ultimate point, the light penetrates everywhere. Hsuan Hua
• In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth. Mahatma Gandhi
• In Silence the heart illumines; veil after veil is removed. In the heart shines the Light of Love.  Kirpal Singh
• Let me rest in Your will and be silent. Then the light of Your joy will warm my life. Its fire will burn in my heart and shine for Your glory. This is what I live for. Amen, amen. Thomas Merton
• The friend of silence comes close to God. In secret he converses with him and receives his light. John Climacus
• Silence is our inner wisdom-light. Sri Chinmoy
• Space and stillness is the light that illuminates the beauty of our soul’s being. Adyashanti

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Rest in presence…

• If you want to experience eternal illumination, put the past and the future out of your mind and remain within the present moment. Elif Safak

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…and deepen your awareness

• Responsibility is awareness, alertness, consciousness. Ego is just unconsciousness. They cannot coexist. As you grow more conscious you grow more towards light, and anything belonging to the world of darkness starts disappearing. Ego is nothing but darkness. Rajneesh
• The dawning of the light of awareness is the new birth, where the sun rises and the day breaks within you. Alberto Villoldo

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Find inner space

• Go inwards. Find your inner space, and suddenly, you will find an explosion of light, of beauty, of ecstasy -as if suddenly thousands of roses have blossomed within you and you are full of their fragrance. Rajneesh
• Space and stillness is the light that illuminates the beauty of our soul’s being.  Adyashanti

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Worship

• Worship is a way of gladly reflecting back to God the radiance of his worth. John Piper
• Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God. Abraham Joshua Heschel
• And if your eye be single to my glory, your whole bodies shall be filled with light, and there shall be no darkness in you; and that body which is filled with light comprehendeth all things. The Doctrine and Covenants (88:67)

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Cleanse the mind

• The mind of man, cleansed of secondary and merely temporal concerns, beholds with the radiance of a cleansed mirror a reflection of the rational mind of God. Joseph Campbell
• The most divine light only shineth on those minds which are purged from all worldly dross and human uncleanliness. Walter Raleigh

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Have faith

• Beautiful light is born of darkness, so the faith that springs from conflict is often the strongest and the best. Ross Turnbull
• Even in the darkest moments, light exists if you have the faith to see it. Dean Koontz
• Faith comes to intelligence as a light that overflows it with joy and inspires it with a certitude that does away with question. Etienne Gilson
• Faith is a bird that feels dawn breaking and sings while it is still dark. Rabindranath Tagore
• Faith is a leap into the light, not a step into the darkness. Reinhard Bonnke
• Faith is a light of such supreme brilliance that it dazzles the mind and darkens all its visions of other realities, but in the end when we become used to the new light, we gain a new view of all reality transfigured and elevated in the light itself. Thomas Merton
• Faith is like a bright ray of sun light. It enables us to see God in all things as well as all things in God. Saint Francis de Sales
• Faith is like electricity. You can’t see it, but you can see the light. Gregory Dickow
• 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. Pope Francis
• Faith is seeing light with your heart when all your eyes see is darkness. Barbara Johnson
• God is the light bulb, to where faith is the light switch. Anthony Liccione
• Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark. Rabindranath Tagore
• Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light. Helen Keller
• Faith lights us through the dark to Deity. William Davenant
• Faith means living with uncertainty – feeling your way through life, letting your heart guide you like a lantern in the dark. Dan Millman
• God would light the way. Faith would keep them on the right path. Francine Rivers
• In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t. Blaise Pascal
• It is at night that faith in light is admirable. Edmond Rostand
• My faith is brightest in the midst of impenetrable darkness. Mahatma Gandhi
• Never doubt God in the darkness what he has given us in the light. Francine Rivers
• Reason saw not, till Faith sprung the Light. John Dryden
• The light of faith makes us see what we believe. Thomas Aquinas
• Through the dark and stormy night Faith beholds a feeble light Up the blackness streaking; Knowing God’s own time is best, In a patient hope I rest For the full day-breaking! John Greenleaf Whittier
• To trust God in the light is nothing, but trust him in the dark-that is faith. Charles Spurgeon
• Trust God in the dark until the light returns. Aiden Wilson Tozer
• When you come to the edge of all the light you have and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen: There will be something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly. Patrick Overton

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Wake up to God within you

• I experienced a light gleaming in the Unseen… I gazed at it continually, until the time came when I had wholly become that light. Abu ‘l-Hosian al-Nuri
• When you wake up to the Divine Consciousness within you and your divine identity, you wake up simultaneously to the Divine Consciousness appearing as all other beings. And this is not poetry and this is not a feeling, this is a direct experience of the divine light living in and as all other beings. And until this realization is firm in you, you do not know who or where you are. Andrew Harvey
• An enlightened master is a perpetual source of the cosmic light because his mind is always merged with nirvana. Frederick Lenz
• Only after Self-Realisation and only then, is there a direct experience of the Spirit. It then manifests its powers in the human personality, and it’s light enlightens the consciousness into a new awareness. The Divine intelligence of the Spirit radiates on all sides. Nirmala Srivastava
• As each one of us awakens, it is like a light going on, followed by another light, another light, and another light. The darkness of human unconsciousness is slowly, gradually and gently lit, until there comes a day when there is more light than dark, more consciousness than unconsciousness , more joy than pain, …more truth than illusion. That would indeed be a day for celebration. Leonard Jacobson

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We live in a universe of light and dark

• There is darkness in light, there is pain in joy, and there are thorns on the rose. Cate Tiernan
• Life consists of two sides … light and dark. Joy and sorrow. Without a balance, one cannot fully experience a full and well-rounded life. JoAnn Ross
• Life is composed of lights and shadows, and we would be untruthful, insincere, and saccharine if we tried to pretend there were no shadows. Walt Disney
• In this dimension of duality we live in, our world of light and dark, pain is part of the human experience. But we are also connected by a million threads to an invisible but indisputable world of Spirit. Aimee Davies

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If God is light, maybe God is experiencing itself as the light in a world of light and dark

• God is experiencing its true nature as love, joy and peace by experiencing both these and their opposites. Anthony Lambert
• God is experiencing itself as the light it is in a contextual world of light (the presence of God) and dark (The absence of God). God is experiencing its true nature as love by experiencing both love and its absence (apathy and hate.) Joy and its absence (despair). Peace and its absence (turmoil) Aliveness and its absence (lethargy and sickness). Anthony Lambert
• Put light against light – you have nothing. Put dark against dark – you have nothing. It’s the contrast of light and dark that each give the other one meaning. Bob Ross
• To love light, you have to love dark. I’m not trying to be profound, I know you’ll understand. I don’t mean that you have to hate to love, or that you have to die to live. I mean that sometimes, you turn out the lights just to turn them back on. Alaya Dawn Johnson
• If God created shadows it was to better emphasise the light. Pope John XXIII
• You cannot experience that Which You Are in the absence of that which you are not. Therefore, know that when you experience that which you are not, it is not a failure to experience but a way to experience That Which You Are. Neale Donald Walsch
• To know what you are, you must first investigate and know what you are not. Nisargadatta Maharaj 
• Where the light is brightest, the shadows are deepest. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it. Buddha 
• Many of the insights of the saint stem from his experience as a sinner. Eric Hoffer
• You cannot know yourself through bliss alone, for bliss is your very nature. You must face the opposite, what you are not, to find enlightenment. Nisargadatta Maharaja

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Ignorance and unconsciousness (darkness) could be described as the absence of God (the light)

• Darkness is absence of light. Shadow is diminution of light. Leonardo da Vinci
• Can there be darkness before the sun? Similarly, can there be ignorance before the self-evident and self-luminous Self ? If you know the Self there will be no darkness, no ignorance and no misery. Ramana Maharshi
• God did not create evil. Just as darkness is the absence of light, evil is the absence of God. Albert Einstein
• Evil needs to be understood for what it is: the dynamic of the absence of Light. It is not something that one should prepare to battle, to run from, or to outlaw. Gary Zukav
• An evil person is like a dirty window, they never let the light shine through. William Makepeace Thackeray
• Even so, we say that the air is darkened around us by a deficiency and absence of the light; while yet the light is itself always light and illumines the darkness. Therefore, evil inheres not in the devils or in us, as evil, but only as a deficiency and lack of the perfection of our proper virtues. Dionysius the Areopagite
• Life has a bright side and a dark side, for the world of relativity is composed of light and shadows. If you permit your thoughts to dwell on evil, you yourself will become ugly Look only for the good in everything so you absorb the quality of beauty. Paramahansa Yogananda
• Sin is absence of God. Nothing more, nothing less. Simon Mawer
• That Sun, that infinite Sun, is hidden by a small curtain so close to the eyes that the whole world is shut out. Such a glorious, majestic Reality is shut out by such a little, insignificant ignorance. Swami Rama Tirtha
• As under a stone there will be darkness, however strong the sunlight, so in the shadow of the ‘I-am-the-body’ consciousness there must be ignorance and illusion. Nisargadatta Maharaj
• God is good and God is light In this faith I rest secure, Evil can but serve the right, Over all shall love endure. John Greenleaf Whittier
• God is light, we are told, and Hell is outer darkness. But look at a desert mountain stripped bare by the sun, and you learn only geography. Watch darkness claim it, and for a moment you may grasp why God had to create Satan—or man to create both. Colin Fletcher

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The truth is that light is only meaningful in relation to darkness

• Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash. Louis Aragon
• There is no light without shadow, just as there is no happiness without pain. Isabel Allende
• In this wondrous dimension we live in called the universe, you cannot have light without darkness. It is the dark that gives light its mea Aimee Davies
• It’s the shade that defines the light. Tori Amos

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There can be no light without contrasting shadow

• Creation is light and shadow both, else no picture is possible. The good and evil of maya must ever alternate in supremacy. If joy were ceaseless here in this world, would man ever desire another? Without suffering, he scarcely cares to recall that he has forsaken his eternal home. Pain is a prod to remembrance. Paramahansa Yogananda
• Good and evil must ever be complements on this earth. Everything created must bear some guise of imperfection. How else could God, the Sole Perfection, fragment His one consciousness into forms of creation distinguishable from Himself? There can be no images of light without contrasting shadows. Unless evil had been created, man would not know the opposite, good. Night brings out the bright contrast of day; sorrow teaches us the desirability of joy. Paramahansa Yogananda
• The greater is the circle of light, the greater is the boundary of the darkness by which it is confined. Joseph Priestley
• Light makes shadow. Brandon Sanderson
• Shadow owes its birth to light. John Gay
• Where there is light, there must be shadow, where there is shadow there must be light. There is no shadow without light and no light without shadow…. We do not know if the so-called Little People are good or evil. This is, in a sense, something that surpasses our understanding and our definitions. We have lived with them since long, long ago– from a time before good and evil even existed, when people’s minds were still benighted. Haruki Murakami
• A light here required a shadow there. Virginia Woolf
• What is made by Light casts a shadow, and the shadow belongs to Light. Louis Kahn
• Wherever there is light, there is shadow; wherever there is length, there is shortness; wherever there is white, there is black. Just like these, as the self-nature of things can not exist alone, they are called non-substantial. Gautama Buddha
• The shadows are as important as the light. Charlotte Bronte
• There is strong shadow where there is much light. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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It takes darkness to experience being the light

• You can’t have a light without a dark to stick it in. Arlo Guthrie
• All consciousness is in time and to it the timeless appears unconscious. Yet, it is what makes consciousness possible. Light shines in darkness. In light darkness is not visible. Or, you can put it the other way — in the endless ocean of light, clouds of consciousness appear — dark and limited, perceivable by contrast. These are mere attempts to express in words something very simple, yet altogether inexpressible.  Nisargadatta Maharaj
• Truly, it is in the darkness that one finds the light. Meister Eckhart
• It is only through shadows that one comes to know the light. Catherine of Siena
• If God created the shadows, it was to bring out the light. John XXIII
• It takes darkness to be aware of the light. Treasure Tatum
• There is strong shadow where there is much light. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• We are all the Light. Light is all we are. But we have been placed in a relative realm, a world of light and dark, so we can experience who we are and who we are not. Neale Donald Walsch
• In creating “something else” – namely the realm of the relative – we have produced an environment in which we may choose to be God, rather than simply be told that we are God, in which we may experience our Godness as an act of creation, rather than conceptualisation, in which the little candle in the sun – the littlest soul – can know itself as the light. Neale Donald Walsch
• I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars. Og Mandino
• To realise the supreme, we need the experience of the opposites. Nisargadatta Maharaja
• It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light. Aristotle Onassis
• Only in silence the word, only in dark the light, only in dying life: bright the hawk’s flight on the empty sky. Ursula K. Le Guin
• When you admire the light, remember to give the darkness its due as well, because without it, the beauty of the light will disappear! Mehmet Murat Ildan
• My suffering was the catalyst to my search for freedom. My fall into darkness allowed me to find my inner light. Aimee Davies
• In the midst of the storm, we discover an inner resilience that is stronger than fear. We discover an inner light that shines even in the darkest moments. Aimee Davies
• Love shows itself more in adversity than in prosperity; as light does, which shines most where the place is darkest. Leonardo da Vinci

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Light and dark together create something immensely profound and beautiful; a kind of divine work of art

• The organization of light and shadow effects produce a new enrichment of vision. Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
• All the masterpieces of art contain both light and shadow. A happy life is not one filled with only sunshine, but one which uses both light and shadow to produce beauty. Billy Graham
• From the mingled strength of shade and light A new creation rises to my sight, Such heav’nly figures from his pencil flow, So warm with light his blended colors glow. . . . . The glowing portraits, fresh from life, that bring Home to our hearts the truth from which they spring. Lord Byron
• I would have artists be convinced that the supreme skill and art in painting consists in knowing how to use black and white… because it is light and shade that make objects appear in relief. Leon Battista Alberti
• Put your hand on your heart and know, just know – you are a great work of art. For a painting has both light and shade, that is what makes the contrast just right. Aimee Davies
• In the hands of a master, light and shade is one of the great qualities of art. John French Sloan
• Art is the subjective, preferential treatment of certain elements of reality; it selects and resets, distributes light and shade, omits and underlines, softens and emphasises. Egon Friedell
• Cinema is all about going back from shadow to light and back and forth: cinema is a place of transgression. Bruno Dumont

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The deepest truth is that God is both the light and the dark…

• God is in the water of the lake; he is also in the cracked bed of the lake when the lake has dried up. God is in the abundant harvest; he is also in the famine that occurs when the harvest fails. God is in the lightning; he is also in the darkness when the lightning has faded. Mansur Al-Hallaj
• God is in everything, and everything is God. Arvind Sharma

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…for in reality, there is no such thing as the absence of God

• There is nothing but light. God is everywhere. Frederick Lenz
• God is everywhere and in everything forever. A Course in Miracles
• There’s nothing in the universe that isn’t God. Neale Donald Walsch
• There is nothing but God, nothing but the Goddess, nothing but Spirit in all directions, and not a grain of sand, not a speck of dust, is more or less Spirit than any other. Ken Wilber
• God is present everywhere. Saint Francis de Sales
• Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere and full of himself. Seneca the Younger
• I am the light that is above them all, I am the All, The All came forth from Me and the All attained to me. Cleave a piece of wood and I am there; Lift up a stone and you will find me there. The Gospel According to Thomas
• This whole world is full of God! Angela of Foligno
• In whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work. Seneca the Younger
• Source manifests as ‘all that is.’ Leo Hartong

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We contain both light and shade

• Within ourselves, we possess every trait and its polar opposite, every human emotion and impulse. We have to uncover, own and embrace all of who we are, the good and bad, dark and light, strong and weak, and honest and dishonest. Debbie Ford
• In each of us lie good and bad, light and dark, art and pain, choice and regret, cruelty and sacrifice. We’re each of us our own chiaroscuro, our own bit of illusion fighting to emerge into something solid, something real. We’ve got to forgive ourselves that. I must remember to forgive myself. Because there is a lot of grey to work with. No one can live in the light all the time. Libba Bray
• The soul’s dark cottage, battered and decayed, lets in new light through chinks that time hath made. Edmund Waller
• Every man as well as every day has its lights and shades. Winfield Scott
• Every human being is a mixture of light and darkness, trust and fear, love and hate. Jean Vanier
• The ingredients of both darkness and light are equally present in all of us. The madness of this planet is largely a result of the human being’s difficulty in coming to viruous balance with himself.   Elizabeth Gilbert
• We’ve all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That’s who we really are. J.K. Rowling
• Every man as well as every day has its lights and shades. Winfield Scott
• How is one to live a moral and compassionate existence when one finds darkness not only in one’s culture but within oneself? There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light. Barry Lopez
• In a profound sense every man has two halves to his being; he is not one person so much as two persons trying to act in unison. I believe that in the heart of each human being there is something which I can only describe as a “child of darkness” who is equal and complementary to the more obvious “child of light.”  Laurens van der Post
• People desire to separate their worlds into polarities of dark and light, ugly and beautiful, good and evil, right and wrong, inside and outside. Polarities serve us in our learning and growth, but as souls we are all. Joy Page

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Shine the divine light of awareness onto all aspects of your life…

• Awareness is like bringing a light to the darkness of mindless reactions. Once you can see them more clearly, you can choose to respond more skilfully. Bob Stahl
• As you watch your mind, you discover yourself as the watcher. When you stand motionless, only watching, you discover yourself as the light behind the watcher. The source of light is dark, unknown is the source of knowledge. That source alone is. Go back to that source and abide there. Nisargadatta Maharaj
• Each thought, each action in the sunlight of awareness becomes sacred. Thich Nhat Hanh
• A quiet mind is all you need. All else will happen rightly, once your mind is quiet. As the sun on rising makes the world active, so does self- awareness affect changes in the mind. In the light of calm and steady self- awareness inner energies wake up and work miracles without effort on your part. Nisargadatta Maharaj
• If you can discover the fear behind the anger and dismantle it in the light of awareness, the anger dissipates. The next time you are angry, ask yourself, What am I afraid of? Alan Cohen
• Awareness is ever there. It need not be realized. Open the shutter of the mind, and it will be flooded with light. Nisargadatta Maharaj
• Conscious awareness is the bright light that destroys the darkness of negativity. Vernon Howard
• To live without awareness is to live as the deaf, blind and dumb in a world of vibrant light and sound. Belsebuub
• Attention is like a spotlight, and what it illuminates streams into your mind and shapes your brain. Rick Hanson
• The radiance of God is the light of awareness that reveals the divinity of all that exists. David R. Hawkins
• Attention is like light and air and water. Shine attention on obstacles and problems and they multiply lavishly. Roz & Ben Zander
• In the light of consciousness all sorts of things happen and one need not give special importance to any. The sight of a flower is as marvelous as the vision of God. Let them be. Why remember them and then make memory into a problem? Be bland about them; do not divide them into high and low, inner and outer, lasting and transient. Go beyond, go back to the source, go to the self that is the same whatever happens. Nisargadatta Maharaj

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…including your darker side…

• The unconscious wants to flow into consciousness in order to reach the light, but at the same time it continually thwarts itself, because it would rather remain unconscious. That is to say, God wants to become man, but not quite. Carl Jung
• You cannot fight against the ego and win, just as you cannot fight against darkness. The light of consciousness is all that is necessary. You are that light. Eckhart Tolle
• When you are willing to shine the light of love onto the parts that you are not proud of – onto the unaccepted parts, the unloved parts, the unwanted emotions, into all the darkened corners of your soul – love will suffuse them, embrace them, until you are left as nothing but love itself. Love arises when you expose everything. Brandon Bays
• I seek what lies beneath surface beauty. What interests me are intimate human complexities – the darkness as well as the light. Joyce Tenneson
• There is a source within us that always works to bring things into the light. John A. Sanford
• There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion. Carl Jung
• In a futile attempt to erase our past, we deprive the community of our healing gift. If we conceal our wounds out of fear and shame, our inner darkness can neither be illuminated nor become a light for others. Brennan Manning

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… through the practice of mindful awareness…

• Mindfulness is the energy that sheds light on all things and all activities, producing the power of concentration, bringing forth deep insight and awakening. Thich Nhat Hanh
• Mindfulness is like a floodlight, shining awareness on the whole field of your experience, including sensations, emotions, and thoughts as they arise and pass away in the dynamic, ever- changing flux that characterizes the human experience of body and mind. Frank Jude Boccio
• Each thought, each action in the sunlight of awareness becomes sacred. Thich Nhat Hanh

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..in order to make the darkness conscious

• There is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own Soul. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. Carl Jung
• Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing. August Wilson

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The divine light of awareness casts out the darkness of negativity and ignorance

• Once the light of our awareness is cast on any darkness, then it cannot hide and it cannot remain. Such is the law of consciousness. Marianne Williamson
• Awareness is like bringing a light to the darkness of mindless reactions. Once you can see them more clearly, you can choose to respond more skillfully. Bob Stahl
• Conscious awareness is the bright light that destroys the darkness of negativity. Vernon Howard
• Light is to darkness what love is to fear; in the presence of one the other disappears. Marianne Williamson
• To drive out the darkness, bring in the light. Henri Bergson
• Whenever light enters darkness, the darkness is abolished. A Course in Miracles
• The side effect of expanding consciousness is that negativity starts to evaporate; it goes away like darkness when you turn on a light. David Lynch
• According to great masters, there is no sin and there is no virtue. There is only one thing: that is awareness. If you are aware, you can do anything you want and it is not sin. If you are not aware, you may do so-called virtuous acts, but there is no virtue in them. Out of unconsciousness virtue cannot blossom. It blossoms only when you are full of light, full of love, full of consciousness. Rajneesh
• In order to cause a shadow to disappear, you must shine light on it. Shakti Gawain
• The light of our loving awareness transmutes Even though the sun is surrounded by the pitch-blackness of space that envelops it, it still shines bright. Aimee Davies

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Embrace your full potential of light and dark…

• The most enlightened people in the world embrace their full potential of light and dark. When you’re with people who recognize and own their negative qualities, you never feel judged by them. It’s only when people see good and bad, right and wrong, as qualities outside themselves that judgments occur. Deepak Chopra
• Every moment of light and dark is a miracle. Walt Whitman
• If a union is to take place between opposites like spirit and matter, conscious and unconscious, bright and dark, and so on, it will happen in a third thing, which represents not a compromise but something new. Carl Jung
• Take everything that’s bright and beautiful in you and introduce it to the shadow side of yourself… When you are able to say, ‘I am … my shadow as well as my light,’ the shadow’s power is put in service of the good. Parker Palmer
• Embrace both the light and the shadow. Embrace the shakiness and rawness of a human life. Aimee Davies
• Both light and shadow are the dance of Love. Rumi

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…for this is what leads to wholeness

• There is no light without shadow, and no psychic wholeness without imperfection. Carl Jung
• Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off a portion of one’s being, but by integration of the contraries. Carl Gustav Jung
• A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow. Djuna Barnes
• I think that this duality is in all of us. Embracing the dark side is actually a really good thing, and harnessing it in a healthy way for optimal creative potential is more important than pretending it’s not there. Scott Barry Kaufman
• The organization of light and shadow effects produce a new enrichment of vision. Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

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It is in exploring our darkness that we discover our divine light

• Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light. Brene Brown
• In a futile attempt to erase our past, we deprive the community of our healing gift. If we conceal our wounds out of fear and shame, our inner darkness can neither be illuminated nor become a light for others. Brennan Manning
• Accept your dark side, understanding it will help you to move with the light. Knowing both sides of our souls, helps us all to move forward in life and to understand that, perfection doesn’t exist. Martin R. Lemieux
• Honor your challenges, for those spaces that you label as dark are actually there to bring you more light, to strengthen you, to firm your resolve, and to bring out the best in you. Sanaya Roman
• When we take the time to discover our shadow and its gifts we will understand what Jung meant by, ‘The gold is in the dark.’ Each of us needs to find that gold in order to reunite with our sacred self. Debbie Ford
• It is precisely because we resist the darkness in ourselves that we miss the depths of the loveliness, beauty, brilliance, creativity, and joy that lie at our core. Thomas Moore
• God, like all highest things, Hides light in shade. Arthur Symons
• I always think of shade as being full of light. John French Sloan
• The shadow is the greatest teacher for how to come to the light. Ram Dass
• It is only through shadows that one comes to know the light. Catherine of Siena
• To confront a person with their own shadow is to show them their own light. Carl Jung
• Awareness shines its light into the depths of me, revealing all I have previously tried to repress and deny, and what I feared were monsters turn out to be mere shadows, now revealing gold in the dark. Anthony Lambert

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• And God said, ‘Let there be light’ and there was light, but the Electricity Board said He would have to wait until Thursday to be connected. Spike Milligan
• In the beginning there was nothing. God said, ‘Let there be light!’ And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better. Ellen DeGeneres
• Just because you are seeing divine light, experiencing waves of bliss, or conversing with Gods and Goddesses is no reason to not know your zip code. Ram Dass

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