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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
• Pay attention to your self outside the realm of your experiences and you’ll discover that there is a light there, there is a love there. Love of one, love of all, merge into love, pure and simple. It radiates from you like light from the sun. Deepak Chopra
• You have no need to travel anywhere – journey within yourself. Enter a mine of rubies and bathe in the splendor of your own light. Rumi

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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. Sri 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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Each of us is the light of consciousness

• 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
• Consciousness, fully awake to itself, is the Light of God. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
• 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
• Let’s shine the light of consciousness on places where we can hope to find what we are seeking. Marshall B. Rosenberg
• The one “I am” at the heart of all creation, Thou art the light of life. Shvetashvatara Upanishad
• The fires of suffering become the light of consciousness. Eckhart Tolle

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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
• 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
• Discover what is true for you. Feel the true, authentic source of Divine light within you now. Aimee Davies

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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
• If we must strive, let us strive for realness, not perfection. Our scars make us real. Our imperfections make us beautiful. Our brokenness is where the light gets in. Aimee Davies

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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 Pilgrim
• Even if the forces of darkness appear to prevail, those who believe in God know that evil and death do not have the final say. Pope John Paul II
• Light can devour the darkness but darkness cannot consume the light. Ken Poirot
• There is no denying that there is evil in this world but the light will always conquer the darkness. Idowu Koyenikan
• There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of even one small candle. Robert Alden

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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
• No matter what, you must let your inner light guide you out of the darkness. Bruce Lee
• You too have come into the world to do this, to go easy, to be filled with light, and to shine.  Mary Oliver

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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
• You’ve got to try a little kindness, yes show a little kindness Just shine your light for everyone to see. Glen Campbell

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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
• 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

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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
• There is a mystery within all beings bursting to reveal itself, in the ones who become quiet enough to discover it. In this discovery a benevolent force shines spontaneously from your presence towards all beings, and this light cannot help but illuminate the world. Mooji

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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
• My Umi said shine your light on the world, shine your light for the world to see Mos Def
• 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. This divine spark is the light of your inner awareness, illuminating all your life experiences, and when you sink back and rest in it, as it, it is felt as a sense of pure aliveness and joy. 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
• To inhabit our body fully and saturate it with loving-kindness is what the world calls ‘glow.’ A person who has made their body and mind a home—not a prison—is one who radiates from the inside out, blessing the outer world with its light. That is love. That is the miracle of loving your “youness.” 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
• We dim our light so we can conform to the 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
• What is the fire that burns in your heart? If you are lucky enough to discover it, than by all means fan the flames and let the fire be the guiding light for a life worth living. Mary Lou Retton

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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

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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
• First, let us light the torch of our awareness… Nhat Hanh
• The light of our loving awareness transmutes darkness. Aimee Davies

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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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Transcendence over adversity

• Trust the process, and remember you can endure the greatest hardships and still be beautiful. Like the caterpillar that spends over a third of its life in the darkness of the chrysalis in order to emerge as the very personification of beauty, it is often the darkness and your triumph over it that allows your beauty to shine most brightly. Aimee Davies

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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
• What strange places our lives can carry us to, what dark passages. Justin Cronin

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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. Sri 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. Sri 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
• Human nature is divided; it contains both darkness and light. You can choose to accept the darkness and lament it, or you can choose to expand the light until the darkness no longer dominates. Deepak Chopra

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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. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
• Encourage yourself by remembering that any detection of negativity within you is a positive act, not a negative one. Awareness of your weakness and confusion makes you strong because conscious awareness is the bright light that destroys the darkness of negativity. Honest self- observation dissolves pains and pressures that formerly did their dreadful work in the darkness of unawareness. Vernon Howard
• The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness. Nikos Kazantzakis
• There’s nothing so delightful as being aware. Would you rather live in darkness? Would you rather act and not be aware of your words? Would you rather listen to people and not be aware of what you’re hearing, or see things and not be aware of what you’re looking at? The great Socrates said, ‘The unaware life is not worth living.’ That’s a self- evident truth. Most people don’t live aware lives. They live mechanical lives, mechanical thoughts—generally somebody else’s—mechanical emotions, mechanical actions, mechanical reactions. Anthony de Mello

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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
• 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

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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
• If you want to awaken all of humanity, then awaken all of yourself, if you want to eliminate the suffering in the world, then eliminate all that is dark and negative in yourself. Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self- transformation. Lao Tzu
• It isn’t enough to stand up and fight darkness. You’ve got to stand apart from it, too. You’ve got to be different from it. Jim Butcher
• Like him, remove what is superfluous, straighten what is crooked, clean up what is dark and make it bright, and never stop sculpting your own statue, until the godlike splendour of virtue shines forth to you. Plotinus

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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
• When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow. Ursula K. Le Guin

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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
• You carry in yourself all the obstacles necessary to make your realization perfect. If you discover a very black hole, a thick shadow, be sure there is somewhere in you a great light. It is up to you to know how to use the one to realize the other. Sri Aurobindo
• You can’t discover light, by analyzing the dark. Wayne Dyer

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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
• Truly, it is in the darkness that one finds the light. Meister Eckhart
• 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
• Our Soul is a spark of the Divine. It is pure and perfect. Evil deeds merely obstruct our vision of the true nature of our Soul. Through good deeds we can become conscious of this perfection again. Swami Vivekananda

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Embrace both your dark and light sides

• We all feel that the opposite of our own highest principle must be purely destructive, deadly, and evil. We refuse to endow it with any positive life-force; hence we avoid and fear it. Carl Jung
• 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
• If only a world-wide consciousness could arise that all division and fission are due to the splitting of opposites in the psyche, then we should know where to begin. Carl Jung
• We live under the pretense that in order for something to be divine it has to be perfect. We are mistaken. In fact, the exact opposite is true. To be divine is to be whole and to be whole is to be everything: the positive and the negative, the good and the bad, the holy and the devil. 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
• Numb the dark and you numb the light. Brené Brown
• When you can say, ‘I am that’ to the deepest, darkest aspect of yourself, then you can reach true enlightenment. It’s not until we fully embrace the dark that we can embrace the light. Debbie Ford

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Often, it is in the darkness that you find the light

• Sometimes the darkest challenges, the most difficult lessons, hold the greatest gems of light. Barbara Marciniak
• The black moment is the moment when the real message of transformation is going to come. At the darkest moment comes the light. Joseph Campbell
• The dark night of the soul comes just before revelation. Joseph Campbell
• Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm. Charles Caleb Colton
• Truly, it is in the darkness that one finds the light. Meister Eckhart
• You don’t go through a deep personal transformation without some kind of dark night of the soul. Sam Keen
• You see, to find the brightest wisdom one must pass through the darkest zones. And through the darkest zones there can be no guide. No guide, that is, but courage. Adam Gidwitz
• Grace strikes us when we are in great pain and restlessness. . . . Sometimes at that moment a wave of light breaks into our darkness, and it is as though a voice were saying: “You are accepted.” Paul Johannes Tillich
• It’s in the entrails of the earth, not on its surface, that you can find diamonds and gold. It’s in going into the darkness that we find enlightenment. Robert Scaer
• 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
• What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle. Rumi

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Without the dark, you’d never even be aware of the light

• The dark does not destroy the light; it defines it. It’s our fear of the dark that casts our joy into the shadows. Brené Brown
• 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
• You can’t have a light without a dark to stick it in. Arlo Guthrie
• It takes darkness to be aware of the light. Treasure Tatum
• Darkness always had its part to play. Without it, how would we know when we walked in the light? Clive Barker
• 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