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Jesus himself refers to himself as light, illumination, knowledge, insight, understanding, wisdom
— Sunday Adelaja
God himself and Jesus relied upon light to function on the earth
— Sunday Adelaja
Light was the first thing that came into existence, first in the order of creation.
— Sunday Adelaja
Whenever a nation or a group of people is devoid of light, catastrophe comes, calamity hits, there is danger everywhere.
— Sunday Adelaja
But men have loved darkness rather than light.
— Sunday Adelaja
Autumn is the time of balance and ofsacrifice, a time when the light is defeated by darkness, a timewhen night takes over and brings the coming winter. Theancient wisdom says that those who long for light must facetheir inner darkness and overcome it.
— Tony Riches, The Secret Diary of Eleanor Cobham
The breath of life is in the sunlight and the hand of life is in the wind.
— Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
The best light which illuminates your path is your determination!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Make thought a whirlwind.
— Victor Hugo
What did it matter that the Light had been taken away from him? What did it matter that Arienne was gone? If it took a thousand years to find her...if he had to cross boiling seas or raging skies...if it cost him his eyes or his tongue, his hands or his feet, his very soul... He would relinquish it all, if it meant he could keep that promise he'd made so long ago. He had nothing else. Without this, he knew, he would simply wither away.
— S.K. Michels, The Shadow and the Light
I have noticed a trend in premature deaths in the people that I know and the presence of streetlights outside of their homes.
— Steven Magee, Light Forensics
It would appear that the blue sky is actually produced by the solar wind and solar radiation exciting air molecules to emit light, just like a neon lamp!
— Steven Magee, Light Forensics
The addition of certain chemicals to the atmosphere will destroy wavelengths of light and it may only be a matter of time before one of these wavelengths of light that is critical for human survival is eliminated. This is called: The Extinction Wavelength
— Steven Magee, Solar Radiation, Global Warming and Human Disease
When it was daylight, we'd been sitting on a stoop watching the street get light. She mentioned the light took eight minutes to leave the sun and reach us. You couldn't help but love that light traveling so far through the loneliest of spaces to get here, to come so far. It was like we were the only two people in the world.
— Marisha Pessl, Night Film
You should be aiming to illuminate your indoor daytime environment with natural outdoor light, not electrical lighting products.
— Steven Magee, Light Forensics
There is no dark, darker than the distorted great light.
— Lauren Kate, Rapture
Images of broken light dance behind my eyelids. How could this giant lamp compare to the sun?Everything is wrong here. Shattered. Broken.Like the light.Like me.I never thought about how important the sky was until I didn’t have one.I am surrounded by walls.I have just replaced one box for another.
— Beth Revis, Across the Universe
You should either be like the candle that produces light or you live like mirror which reflects it. Pray for love; Sow love, Show love and Share love!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
In the wake of my broken dreamsIn the dirt and the dust and the days that felt like weeks.I found the person that I’m meant to be‘Cause when I felt like giving upWhen death was closing inI shut my eyesAnd black out the darkness with light from insideI’ve given moreThan what I’ve gotI’ve given allOf what I’m notI’ve watched this war consume all that we could becomeFacing my fears in the darkBut if I dieBefore it’s donePlease take these wordsMy final thoughtsThe only way to shine your light is in the dark.Never let life kill your sparkThis is the falloutYeah it’s the end of the worldWe’ll spread the noise to everyone and let them all know you heardA system meltdownIt’s time we exposeThe 'cause of chaos is our ownI’ve given moreThan what I’ve gotI’ve given allOf what I’m notI’ve watched this war consume all that we could becomeFacing my fears in the darkBut if I dieBefore it’s donePlease take these wordsMy final thoughtsThe only way to shine your light is in the dark.Never let life kill your sparkNever let life kill your sparkNever let life kill your sparkFacing my fears in the darkI’ve given moreThan what I’ve gotI’ve given allOf what I’m notI’ve watched this war consume all that we could becomeIf I dieBefore it’s donePlease take these wordsMy final thoughtsThe only way to shine your light is in the dark.Never let life kill your spark..
— Crown The Empire
The higher you getthe more light you catchbut too much altitudelets you run out of air... ...because you might not belong there
— Erik Tanghe
This is the "burglar-alarm" theory of bioluminescence: by turning on its lights, an animal may create enough of a scene to draw the attention of its predator's predator, and thereby perhaps save itself. The corollary of the burglar-alarm theory is the minefield theory. It says the reason so many animals tend to hang motionless in the deep, even fish, is to avoid setting off light explosions that would expose them to their enemies - their predators or their prey. Life in the midwater, in this view, is a tense affair (though the denizens do not know it) in which everyone is waiting stealthily in the dark, moving slowly if at all, watching and waiting for someone to turn on a light and for something to happen.
— Robert Kunzig
I'll bet he light in the window.
— Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song
When I was no longer of the world, I would miss its extravagant beauty. I would miss the complex and charming layers of subterfuge by which the truth of the world's mysteries were withheld from us even as we were tantalized and enchanted by them. I would miss the kindness of good people who were compassionate when so many were pitiless, who made their way through so much corruption without being corrupted themselves, who eschewed envy in a world of envy, who eschewed greed in a world of greed, who valued truth and could not be drowned in a sea of lies, for they shone and, by the light they cast, they warmed me all my life.
— Dean Koontz, Saint Odd
Light a candle against the darkness...
— Sylvain Reynard
The light of God's love makes us unique personalities
— Sunday Adelaja
The Light yearns for the peaceful balance of the Darkness as much as Darkness seeks the Glory of the Light.
— Solange nicole
The glorious light is sunshine.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Light makes invisible things manifest.
— Sunday Adelaja
Your level is above the reach of the devil... Keep it in mind; as long as you are in the light of God, you bind him (the devil) tight!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
Then we have to pray for the light of the Holy Spirit to shine in people’s lives
— Sunday Adelaja
We are to show unsaved people the way out
— Sunday Adelaja
We’re all ridiculous… all of us. It’s as though we use a lit torch to search for light. You are enough. Know this and proceed through life accordingly.
— Steve Maraboli
Grace will dropinto your pocketon a day of waning light-
— Laurel Garver, Muddy-Fingered Midnights: poems from the bright days and dark nights of the soul
Slowly, the light receded, and she could see a singe sword, hanging in the air, a sword of pure white, of light and truth.
— Tyrean Martinson, Champion in the Darkness
The human body when kept in an indoor environment of low lux light will not realize that it is daytime, as it cannot sense the increasing levels of daylight that the genetics are accustomed to. As such, by late morning your body may start sending a signal for you to sleep!
— Steven Magee, Electrical Forensics
From the beginning and end of every adversity, the light of a virtuous woman will always shine.
The deeper you go into the Word of God, the more light you will receive for your life and the wiser you will be in your actions.
— Sunday Adelaja
It is the photographing of ordinary things, in extraordinary light, that produces extraordinary photographs.
— David   Young
A street full of shadows will teach you what life is much better than the street full of lights!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
The more light in your composition, the more generous you are. That is the first sign of a true light warrior. They give without waiting for you to ask. They give without expecting to be repaid. They give to strangers and even offer help to enemies. And sadly, because their light is so bright, they also attract tons of bugs and flies their way.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
We are in this together. None of us truly walk in isolation, even when we cannot sense the presence of another for miles upon miles. Even in the worst of our desolation. Even during our coldest 3am breakdown. Even when we shut out the world and spin in circles until we collapse. Even then the light still gets in. Even then the heart still opens and reaches, tendrils of hope curling and bending toward slivers of light. Upward, outward, in all directions – seeking light at all cost. One way or another, we all grow toward the light.
— Jeanette LeBlanc
If you hold a candle close to you, its flame rises. And if you hold it away from you, its flame shrinks. The same way you hold a candle close to you, keep all your plans, aspirations, projects, and dreams close to you too. Do not share your plans or goals until you complete them, because as you hold your candle away from you, your goals can shrink from the envious eyes of others. Animosity, jealousy and resentment can put out your flame before it grows.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
There's a funny thing about light and darkness--like hope, you can never blot out either one completely. They always exist, side by side, bright light making shadows darker, darkness making the light more beautiful, a tempting siren call. I can't hate the dark parts of myself. They are the things that showed me how special and rare the bright flames of trust, loyalty, friendship, and love were. My darkness showed me how to love Rob. But now I choose light and fire and love. No I choose freedom.
— A.C. Gaughen, Lion Heart
Don't give up the fight. Don't dim out the light. Those who at first don't believe in you, will soon begin to ask you "how did you do it?” Keep it up!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
To tell your soul that you love it, is like remembering who you are after being in a coma for a hundred years. Your face will beam the light of a hundred galaxies.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
The taste of Scotch, though Guy didn’t much care for it, was pleasant because it reminded him of Anne. She drank Scotch, when she drank. It was like her, golden, full of light, made with careful art.
— Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Train
A world full of Love, Light & Laughter. Its time has come. Let's make it happen.
— Sadghuru
The moonlight shines and billows; the broken clouds scud above the trees. Leaves fly everywhere. But the moonlight stays unmoved by the wind, passing through clouds, through air, in what seems to Werner like impossibly slow imperturbable rays. They hang across the buckling grass. Why doesn’t the wind move the light?
— Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See
To carry a light on Earth is to represent the Sun on earth!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Lord deliver mankind from darkness into light
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
And we would always be looking for the light... together.
— A. Meredith Walters, Light in the Shadows
The light was different here in California.
— Heidi Freestone, Growing Home
Everything can always be better! To know this is a wit! But if you also know that everything can always be worse and that is wisdom! Wisdom is to see both the lights and the shadows!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Let the beauty of life be your light.
— Debasish Mridha
I routinely use my blue sky "Device" and it works very well for me.
— Steven Magee, Curing Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity
Light jumping out of window is staring the dark from afar.
— Suman Pokhrel
Darkness is perhaps the only reality, the only truth, both of which have only one property; they are eternal. What we call light is a mere temporary absence of darkness, untruth, a mere temporary absence of truth. Vedas point to this absence by neti, neti; not this, not this. Both, darkness and truth overcome light and untruth and start becoming manifest, sooner or later, mostly sooner than later, once we believe and strive to experience. Sages, down the ages, have emphasised the learning path to The Truth; prevent light from entering your eyes by shutting them or sitting in a darker area, to make it easier. And a last word; there is no perfect darkness and no perfect truth. These, just two names for the same absence, are goals to which we may get ever closer, without reaching. And priests and scriptures make God so complicated!
— R. N. Prasher
Light and the human is poorly understood by the astronomicalprofession, with many astronomers not understanding which light bulbs they should have in their ownhomes and offices! It is embarrassing that astronomers do not understand the many forms of artificiallighting that they are exposed to every day and how it affects them.
— Steven Magee
When you embrace the darkness within, you will always live in the light.
— Joseph D'Lacey
Another great contribution to science of Imam Jafar al-Sadiq (A) was his Theory of Light. He said that light reflected by different objects comes to us, but only a part of the rays enter our eyes. That is the reason why we do not see distant objects clearly.
— Infallible Imam (A) (www.alhassanain.org/english/?com=book&id=721)
The light within us gives power for good actions.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
God is a life-giving light.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
You can't turn love off like a light switch. If you could it wouldn't be love. It is something that you keep on, until the bulb burns out or someone replaces it.
— Shannon L. Alder
Love is the light of our soul which lets us see the beauty of this world.
— Debasish Mridha
Never crave to be known for someone you are not. Be who you are in the day and when the lights are off, remain true!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Watchwords
Light has no value if there is no darkness.
— Debasish Mridha
Through darkness diamonds spread their richest light.
— John Webster, The White Devil
Inherent within your soul is a greater light, recognize and radiate it.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
I give myself up to darkness
—  and wish I may never again be required to lift my head to the light.
Let your love be the light of your life. Now enlighten the whole world with the brightness of that light.
— Debasish Mridha
You cannot let the darkness overcome the light.
— Melissa de la Cruz, Stolen
When you walk through the darkness, God shall be your light!.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
When you become the light, there will be no darkness.
— Debasish Mridha
Dream big and dare to make it happen. You have a heavy power
—  don’t misuse it carrying a paperweight load. Make it big!
When the sun shines, there seems to be much more dust in the air.Dirt can only be seen and properly removed by flooding it with white light
— Erik Tanghe
During the war, I promised the dead I would never forget them. I stared at them, barely able to move myself. Pretended I was one of them. To this day I can recall the light in the ruins.
— Chris Bohjalian, The Light in the Ruins
Shadows of doubt will always fall behind you when you keep your face towards the sunshine. Believe in God
—  face the brighter light and cast behind the dark shadows!
There is light within your soul. Let it shine.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
She wanted to tell him that she loved him, but she kept her convoluted and confused thoughts to herself. He was her light in the darkness, but she was unsure if it was actual love or a form of Stockholm syndrome.
— Emmie White, Captive
We all have the power of light inside us, it’s just that sometimes the darkness is stronger. Fear is like darkness, too. It can consume you. It will consume you. And when you let it consume you, it’ll be hard as hell to break free from it. You have to fight it.
— J. G. Whit, THIS PAGE HAS BEEN UPDATED
We mature not by years, but by stories…" Cinderella In Focus:Cindy's Secret
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Soulful intent...A perspective that reminds us that our understanding is not the only way" from Cinderella in Focus: Cindy's Secret
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Life’s heartbeat...the soul seeds of opportunity" by Cinderella in Focus
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Our Higher Self: The part of us that is connected to nature and also humanity" from Cinderella in Focus: Cindy's Secret
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A soul wound doesn't grow a new layer of normality overnight" Cinderella in Focus: Cindy'Secret
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Illuminate the wonderful light within you.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
I’ve got to stop looking at you, like you light my world. You’re the dark cloud which brings the rain. You’re the hurricane which destroys my peace. You are not the sun. I am my own light.
— LeAnne Mechelle, Write like no one is reading 2
A friend is the wax that keeps the flame lit, an enemy is the wind that blows it out.
— Anthony Liccione
In the radiance of His light the world is not commonplace. The very floor we stand on is a miracle of atoms whizzing about in space. The darkness of sin is clarified, and its burden shouldered. Death is robbed of its finality, trampled down by Christ's death. In a world where everything that seems to be present is immediately past, everything in Christ is able to participate in the eternal present of God.
— Alexander Schmemann, For the Life of the World: Sacraments and Orthodoxy
Love being the only flower that opens and reaches for the light. Light will always come, because it longs to be reached for, and darkness is put away.
— Tanna Marie Angers, Forbidden
The villages were lighting up, constellations that greeted each other across the dusk. And, at the touch of his finger, his flying-lights flashed back a greeting to them. The earth grew spangled with light signals as each house lit its star, searching the vastness of the night as a lighthouse sweeps the sea. Now every place that sheltered human life was sparkling. And it rejoiced him to enter into this one night with a measured slowness, as into an anchorage.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Night Flight
Who knew, or cared, the names of the Turks who blew the roof off the Parthenon? the mullahs who had ordered the destruction of the Buddhas at Bamiyan? Yet living or dead: their acts stood. It was the worst kind of immortality. Intentionally or no: I had extinguished a light at the heart of the world.
— Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch
Deliberately she shrouded the light in her eyes, but it shone against her will in the faintly perceptible smile.
— Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
Life and light will not let me be.
— Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train
Having your evening coffee overA field guide of trails or alpine blossoms& so I need now to ask youWhich of the old journals did you firstOpen to a map of my long wanderingWhen did you first know I'd come back& how did you find yourself here& how did you know this single lanternYou are reading by was the last possibleLight to lead me home?
— David St. John, The Auroras: New Poems
I was waiting for you," said Gregory. "Might I have a moment's conversation?""Certainly. About what?" asked Syme in a sort of weak wonder.Gregory struck out with his stick at the lamp-post, and then at the tree. "About this and this," he cried; "about order and anarchy. There is your precious order, that lean, iron lamp, ugly and barren; and there is anarchy, rich, living, reproducing itself--there is anarchy, splendid in green and gold.""All the same," replied Syme patiently, "just at present you only see the tree by the light of the lamp. I wonder when you would ever see the lamp by the light of the tree.
— G.K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
What is knowledge but a lucid enunciation of ignorance of yesterday. If there is no darkness to dispel, there can be no light.
— R. N. Prasher
7. 3. 12. 31. 208: Reckless disrespect of the lightless hours will not be tolerated.
— Jasper Fforde, Shades of Grey
Yeah, it didn't work like that because lies cannot protect
— Danielle Bernock, Emerging with Wings: A True Story of Lies, Pain, and the Love That Heals
Brighten the corner where you are. You don’t blame God for placing you in a dark corner… You rather have to thank him for giving you the light to make it bright!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Watchwords
Translating the words on the door, he said, "Light from light." "Waste and void, waste and void. Darkness on the face of the deep," I said. "Then God commanded light. The light of the world descends from the Everlasting Light that is God.""That is surely one thing it means," said Romanovich. "Bit it may also mean that the visible can be born from the invisible, That matter can arise from energy that thought is a form of energy and that thought itself can be concretized into the very object that is imagined.
— Dean Koontz, Brother Odd
we are all made from the stars and connected to each other and the stars
— J. Yates
We know how to read traffic lights, but what don't you know how to read spiritual signs?
— Paul Gitwaza
It is amazing how the light can make us forget we were ever afraid of the dark.
— Anonymous
Inside the building, the sun lights up segments of the rotting wooden floor through the many holes in the roof. As I look for her, I register things: the soggy floorboards. The smell of almonds, like her. An old claw-footed bathtub in a corner. So many holes everywhere that this place is simultaneously inside and outside.
— John Green, Paper Towns
But perhaps there are insensitive hearts, still incapable of receiving this Light because the weight of their sins prevents them from seeing it. Let them not imagine that they Light is absent because they do not see it, for on account of their sins they are in darkness. ‘And the Light shone in the darkness, and the darkness understood it not’ (Jn 1:5). Therefore, Brothers, like the blind man exposed to the sun, the sun being present to him but he being absent from the sun, so the insensitive one, the sinner, the impious has a blind heart.
— Augustine of Hippo
I focus on the light I can find, and if I can't find it, I create it.
— Courtney M. Privett, Sand into Glass
A single tiny light creates a space where darkness cannot exist. The light vanquishes the darkness. Try as it might, the darkness cannot conquer the light.
— Donald L. Hicks, Look into the stillness
In this world where too many are willing to see only the light that is visible, never the Light Invisible, we have a daily darkness that is night, and we encounter another darkness from time to time that is death, the deaths of those we love, but the third and most constant darkness is with us everyday, at all hours of every day, is the darkness of the mind, the pettiness and meanness and hatred, which we have invited into ourselves, and which we pay out with generous interest.
— Dean Koontz, Brother Odd
Always let your inner light shine. By doing so, you not only light a path for yourself, but also light a way for others.
— Donald L. Hicks, Look into the stillness
when you pick a flower, you become so besotted in its beauty; you dare not judge how it became that way, let it be the same lesson for humans; Spread your light, not your pain.
— Nikki Rowe
As a lie can be buried, the truth will always bloom.
— Anthony Liccione
She made struggle look beautiful; so much, even darkness feared her light
— Nikki Rowe
The Poets light but Lamps-Themselves-go out-
— Emily Dickinson, The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson
Turn and face the Light, and all you see is Brightness. Turn and face Shadow, and all of Life will appear before you.
— Stan Sudan, Sisters of Light
People can have great riches, but without honesty, they never have true respect.People can have abundant love, but without honesty, they never have real trust.People can have many friends, but without honesty, they never have loyalty.People can have sharp minds, but without honesty, they never have admiration.People can have fame, but without honesty, they never have honor.Without honesty, a person’s light may flicker, but it will never truly shine.Without honesty, people are left with only lies.
— Donald L. Hicks, Look into the stillness
I did something the other day that not many have been taught. I prayed for those who hurt me, to eventually find there way- not because they deserve it but because i deserve the growth.
— Nikki Rowe
we are all like poems. some of us rhyme. some don’t. some are Pulitzer prizessome are just scribblesand yet, we all possessa special kind of beautythat can either heal or cut to the boneone that can never quitebe fathomed, nor forgotten.
— Sanober  Khan
If you want to be loved, LOVE. If you want to be understood, UNDERSTAND. If you want peace, MAKE PEACE. If you want light, LIGHT. If you want to be seen, SHINE. If you want to be heard, LISTEN. You can only take so much, you gotta give. YOU ONLY GET WHAT YOU GIVE. ~ UNIVERSE LOVES YOU & SO DO I ❤ #StardustAK ❤
— Abhishek Kumar, Stardust Family - We Are One!
You can either choose to walk in light and love, or run in fear and darkness. But with the latter, you're more likely to fall.
— Donald L. Hicks, Look into the stillness
All Armand’s life Honoré had lived in light. Unchallenged….Armand put out his hand, and touched the door. The last room, the last door [in the longhouse]. The last territory to explore didn't hold monstrous hate or bitterness or rancid resentments. It held love. Blinding, beautiful love.
— Louise Penny, A Rule Against Murder
Light always overcomes darkness.
— Donald L. Hicks, Look into the stillness
Heavenly Father, let there be light in every dark corner.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Love ~ Truth ~ Freedom are three words that mean the same, and none may exist without the other present.
— Alexia Penteleόn de aRcturi
Creating light is a wiz
—  sharing that light is witty and protecting that light is a great honour!
It's true. The storms won't last forever. The nasty weather will never last. There is always that light at the end of the tunnel.
— Diana Rose Morcilla
If darkness was meant to rule it wouldn’t be chased away by the Light.” -Sheelagh
— Brittany L. Engels, Rompita Kero, Healing for the Broken Heart
You are like fire; you will burn wherever you go. If contained, channeled, you can bring light, but you will also always cast a shadow.
— Michelle Hodkin, The Retribution of Mara Dyer
What are you going to do with all that dark?Find a way to glow in it.
— Amanda Torroni
holding the eveningtremblingly close to mei weepinto the sun lettingthe burdenof hopelift off my chesti realizethis is what it meansto be free.
— Sanober  Khan
See the light in others, and treat them as if that is all you see.
— Wayne Dyer
Knowledge may be terrible, but we can only prefer it to ignorance. Light may be terrible, but we can only prefer it to the dark.
— Welcome to Nightvale
Embracing the LightCollected bits of truthShimmering sparksShards of lightMergeHealingRestoringBursting BrightRisingin divine ecstatic flame.
— Leonard Nimoy, Shekhina
The GatheringAccording to the Kabbalah, in the beginning everything was God. When God contracted to make room for creation, spiritual energy filled the void. The energy poured into vessels which strained to hold the great power. The vessels shattered, sending countless shards, bits of the glowing matter, into the vastness of the universe.These scattered bits of divine light must be collected. When the task is done the forces of the dark will be vanquished and the world will be healed.
— Leonard Nimoy, Shekhina
The human Soul will only find its Light,when the Ego gives its permission.
— C.C. Campbell, The Stolen Light of Women: A Quest for Spiritual Truth Beyond Religion
It's dark because you're trying too hard," said Susila. "Dark because you want it to be light. Remember what you used to tell me when I was a little girl. 'Lightly, child, lightly. You've got to learn to do everything lightly. Think lightly, act lightly, feel lightly. Yes, feel lightly, even though you're feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them.' I was so preposterously serious in those days, such a humorless little prig. Lightly, lightly—it was the best advice ever given me. Well, now I'm going to say the same thing to you, Lakshmi . . . Lightly, my darling, lightly. Even when it comes to dying. Nothing ponderous, or portentous, or emphatic. No rhetoric, no tremolos, no self-conscious persona putting on its celebrated imitation of Christ or Goethe or Little Nell. And, of course, no theology, no metaphysics. Just the fact of dying and the fact of the Clear Light. So throw away all your baggage and go forward. There are quicksands all about you, sucking at your feet, trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair. That's why you must walk so lightly. Lightly, my darling. On tiptoes; and no luggage, not even a sponge bag. Completely unencumbered.
— Aldous Huxley, Island
The light and the stars guide my way.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
The BlessingHeads are covered by the Tallit, or prayer shawl; hands are extended out with the fingers splayed to form the shape of the letter Shin, the first letter in the word Shaddai, a name for the Almighty. The chant, in Hebrew, is loud and ecstatic: "May the Lord bless and keep you."The Shekhina is summoned; the feminine essence of God. She enters the sanctuary to bless the congregation. The very sight of her, the awesome light emanating from the Shekhina, is dangerous to behold.
— Leonard Nimoy, Shekhina
The light was as intense as a love affair. I was blinded, delighted, not just because it was warm and wonderful, but because nature measures nothing. Nobody needs this much sunlight. Nobody needs droughts, volcanoes, monsoons, tornadoes either, but we get them, because our world is as extravagant as a world can be. We are the ones obsessed by measurement. The world just pours it out.
— Jeanette Winterson
Manichean dualism is the single worst idea people ever came up with — this notion that you can divide humankind into the children of light and the children of darkness.
— James K. Morrow
The searing light of morningAsks unwelcome questions,Fragile hopes soon blistered by daylight.
— Scott Hastie
The light needs only our trustAnd, of course, the darknessTo work its eternal alchemy.
— Scott Hastie
I was once in darkness, but now, the light of God has shone upon me.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
The light within you is divine.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
People are like vines that grow upwards to the Sun in the heavens. Our ascent is inspired by seeking a deep connection with the divine. When we are attracted to others, we are attracted to a spark of the divine that is a reflection of our true being.
— Ambika Devi
Tapping While Peeling, Back These Masks Stained With Stars…This Ashtrays My Heart, Colored In Filters Sucked Dry From The High, The Lipsticked & Famous, The Lovers The Haters, The Bent Or Those Who Live In The Cage…With Vision Sealed Tight Denying All Light...Left Only With Assumption From A Judge In Sleep State...
— L V HALL
The night has come and yet the light is still shining. A warmth is present and life is still great. No darkness can put out the light of truth. It remains forever. The heart is still full within the redeemed and love is always strong. Praise Jesus.
— Calvin W. Allison, Standing at the Top of the Hill
But that's the thing, how you feel about the place that's home. About its sky, its air, its smell, the color of the light, the way the rain falls (or doesn't), whether it hot or cold.
— Laura McBride
Sometimes we will love people not for who they are, nor for what we gain from them but what they are. Those people that reflect a light. Those that make it easy to love, make us willing to give, and make us wanting to be in their presence.
— Aisha Mirza
Open your eyes wide and see yourself breaking new territories... Believe what you see
—  arise and shine beyond all challenges. Shine the brighter light in you!
Live in the light, Child of God.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Know that we never have to walk in darkness. Even when we get into dark times or dark situations, God’s light is always there to be found!
— Stormie Omartian, Just Enough Light for the Step I'm On
Everyone breathing is broken. Keep breathing light into them until the stained glass collage takes your breath away.
— Ryan Lilly, Write like no one is reading
The world can use more light and less noise. More solvers and fewer blamers. More folks showing a better way and fewer folks complaining about how much better things used to be. More folks offering help and fewer folks wringing their hands about the problems. More hope bringers and fewer hope killers.
— Steve Goodier
The sun rises every morning and sheds light, vanquishing the night's darkness. The rooster also rises every morning only, unlike the sun, he simply makes noise. But the darkness of the night is dispelled by sunshine, not by the rooster's crowing. The world can use more light and less noise. Wherever I can, I want to be light.
— Steve Goodier
As one who would rather light a candle than curse the darkness.
— Richard Paul Evans, The Mistletoe Promise
It was a light which gave solidity to everything and drew colour out from the heart of objects.
— V.S. Naipaul
There is a light that can only be found on the other side of darkness, there is a peace that can only be found on the other side of struggle, there is a faith that can only be found on the other side of doubt, and there is a healing that can only be found on the other side of pain.
— Sarah Holman, A Different Kind of Courage
nothing can block your light. what's for you will be yours even when shade is thrown
— Alexandra Elle
May you be guided to walk in the right paths.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
How much more mysterious and inviting is the street of an old town with its altering realms of darkness and light than are the brightly and evenly lit streets of today! The imagination and daydreaming are stimulated by dim light and shadow. In order to think clearly, the sharpness of vision, has to be suppressed, for thoughts travel with an absent-minded and unfocused gaze. Homogeneous bright light paralyses the imagination in the same way that homogenization of space weakens the experience of being, and wipes away the sense of place. The human eye is most perfectly turned for twilight rather than bright daylight.
— Juhani Pallasmaa
No matter what kind of sin you have committed, there is always forgiveness. You must repent and seek for forgiveness. You can walk in the new life and light.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, On Eagles Wings:Rise
Maturity dare to be the first to shine as a light in the dark.
— Kishore Bansal
Path of light, path of life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
When your ego surrenders to the Higher Self, you become a Human Angel: a radiating center of Light, an active and conscious part of the Uni-versal project of Love.
— Human Angels, We are human angels
My past is an echo of my perfect present being the shadow of my stellar future.
— Lyna Jones
No matter what kind of sin you have committed, there is always forgiveness. You must repent and seek forgiveness. You can walk in the new life and light.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Confess your sins, pray towards the Heavens and be set free from all bondages in Jesus Name.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Darkness and light. Black and white. But which is death, and which is life?
— Ramona Govender
You're the light in my darkness
— Kat Unda
First of all there is matter—and, remarkably enough, all matter is the same. The matter of which the stars are made is known to be the same as the matter on the earth...The same kinds of atoms appear to be in living creatures as in non-living creatures.
— Richard Feynman
People generally have three reactions to the gospel, to hearing the name of Jesus; they either are drawn to it like fireflies drawn to a flame, they run away from it for fear that the light will expose their own sin and shame, or they try to put out the light like someone throwing something at a lamp to break it. 
— Lisa Bedrick
There's the light. There's the dark. And there's that bit in between... where you're trying to find the switch.Think about where you are.
— Isis Sky
The ticket to Utopia ia real Love that springs from within us.
— Katerina Kostaki, The Angels Planet
There is a deep light within my soul.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Hope is the light, trusted guide in darkness.
— Debasish Mridha
Believe that you are someone worth saving.
— Slade Combs, The Choice: Death Is Just The Beginning
I live by feeling, my intuition surfaces with the radiance of the moon; and the footing I take must be walked in truth. this world is too dark to think of it any other way.
— Nikki Rowe, Once a Girl, Now a Woman
The universe never complainsWhen you're wrong or right,She always loves and cares,She always gives and shares. When you get lost she becomes the light,Helps you to find what is right. But she never forgetsTo show you the light.
— Debasish Mridha
Love has glints of light that wake up our heart to feel the beauty of life.
— Debasish Mridha
There is love in everything, and when we really live and view life with an open heart (and live in our truth), the light illuminates the way.
— Kasi Kaye Iliopoulos, Living in Light, Love & Truth: You Can Positively Change Your Life by Living in Light, Love, & Truth-Awareness + Reflection + Learning + Application
Cherish the beauty and cherish the pain, both will give you experience and you will never be the same
— Nikki Rowe, Once a Girl, Now a Woman
There is no place so dark that light cannot lead the way.
— Slade Combs, The Choice: Death Is Just The Beginning
Hope – or perhaps delusion – was a flame that had stayed lit, even though its scorching light would hurt. It had refused to go out.
— Dianna Hardy, Broken Lights
The difference in our potential as angels or demons is the effect of time on the decisions we make.
— Slade Combs, The Choice: Death Is Just The Beginning
Don’t dim the light in you. Make your corner bright. Fight a good fight with all your might. Wake up and dare to win
—  never fear because of what others might say. You’ll overcome!
Healing cannot occur by refusing to listen to the truth, unsettling as it may be.
— Slade Combs, The Choice: Death Is Just The Beginning
No matter how little your light is, let it shine
— Saji Ijiyemi
Sometimes it's our darkest moments that make us shine.
— Z.R. Southcombe
To the one who views from a larger perspective....everything is a blessing.
— Vivian Amis, The Essentials of Life
Whatever you begin will see the light of day provided you can dream big and be a ruler over your dreams with persistent actions.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
All these many-coloured feelings fell... like light on a black surface, producing no change, meeting no return.
— Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Hope Leslie: or, Early Times in the Massachusetts
If you can place black where it suppose to be, you will see white and white is light.
— Temi 'T Quest' Sholeye
When love is sweet, the sweetness means its lightAnd light may keep the truth, when love is pure.But love is bitter, when it turns to fight.Lovers in a fight are quite immature.''From the poem ''A Note on Existentialist Love
— Marieta Maglas
Never allow fear to keep you from creating your own miracle. There are unlimited options at your disposal for creating any magical experience safely if you access the wisdom of your heart and make the choice to walk in the light.
— Molly Friedenfeld
We can honor our emotions after any traumatic event by moving through the experience centered in the heart with the goal of reaching the light on the other side.
— Molly Friedenfeld
Those that choose to walk in the light will experience light.Those that choose the opposite path create for themselves the opposite experience.
— Molly Friedenfeld
In the morning, celebrate the beauty and warmth of sun light,in the evening, celebrate the song of silence and love of night.
— Debasish Mridha
In the land of light there is only one currency. The currency of love.
— Amit Ray, Meditation: Insights and Inspirations
Wisdom gives you the ability to chose what is right.In the darkness of hate and ignorance, it is the light.
— Debasish Mridha
A pessimist finds the darkness around the light but an optimist becomes the light in the darkness.
— Debasish Mridha
When you see the sadness, failure, and darknessFind the opportunity to turn on the light of success.
— Debasish Mridha
Love is the light of life,Happiness is the delight of life.
— Debasish Mridha
Let us be a messenger of peace and illuminate the world with the lights of our love.
— Debasish Mridha
When you see the sadness in life, be compassionate. When you see the darkness, become the light and be passionate.
— Debasish Mridha
Where love is the light, love is the way. Happiness is there; sadness flies away.
— Debasish Mridha
Love is the light and source of life, and happiness is the delight and essence of life.
— Debasish Mridha
Knowledge is the value of a diamond but wisdom is the beauty and light it reflects.
— Debasish Mridha
There is a certain kind of darkness that seeps into our lives if we are not actively engaged in creating light.
— Marta Mrotek, Miracle in Progress: A Handbook for Holistic Recovery
The inner light is the true soul of a man.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
The path of light is self awaken.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Wow, a world without darkness. How beautiful was that?
— Benjamin Alire Sáenz
How clumsily we love this world:looking into that vast darkness,waiting for the telescopeto send down unseen colors of light.
— Julia B. Levine
All you need to know about the light is in being in the dark.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
If you see the light at the end of the tunnel, you’re lookingthrough binoculars the wrongway
— Josh Stern, And That's Why I'm Single: What Good Is Having A Lucky Horseshoe Up Your Butt When The Horse Is Still Attached?
If only i could get that under control then i feel like i could stay here a long time, watching the days leaking into the nights, swilling over the buildings, bleeding back again. I could lie and not think of anything but ways to describe the sky, the clouds, the light.
— Gwendoline Riley
The path of light is true enlightenment.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Hold on to the darkness... I will come looking for your light.
— Dimitri Zaik, Ink Bleeder
Let craft, ambition, spite, Be quenched in Reason's night, Till weakness turn to might, Till what is dark be light, Till what is wrong be right!
— Lewis Carroll
wisdom is the beacon of knowledge
— Bilal Munir
What if I'm in charge of my own damn light switch?
— Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun
I'll tell you what I want. Magic! Yes, yes, magic! I try to give that to people. I misinterpret things to them. I don't tell the truth. I tell what ought to be truth. And if that is sinful, then let me be damned for it! - Don't turn the light on!
— Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire
Good night! Good night!Far flies the light;But still God's loveShall shine above,Making all bright,Good night! Good night!
— Victor Hugo
The lights became stars, which became streaks in the grayspace, and then networks of fading shimmers
— Ashim Shanker
The shadows have both been my refuge and my repulse.
— Anthony Liccione
Don’t be deceived by the thoughts of obscurity that lingers around your head. Go and shine the light in you.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
Do not hide your light, let it shine.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Judge not; the workings of his brainAnd of his heart thou canst not see;What looks to thy dim eyes a stain,In God's pure light may only beA scar, brought from some well-won field,Where thou wouldst only faint and yield.
— Adelaide Anne Procter
The most beautiful of human things are born in the shadows and thrive there and are endangered by light
— Prabhukrishna M
There is light in every soul.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I know you don’t want to stand up to the bullies, the peace-breakers, or even the demons among you. You want someone else to handle it, someone else to tell them to stop, someone else to bring the peace. And very often in your life, there will be someone else, and you’ll be able to stay in your place of peace. But other times, the peace you crave can only be found by fighting the battle, and the light you crave can only be seen by fighting the darkness.
— Sean Patrick Brennan, The Papal Visitor
Happiness is gleaned from a source, which can be attributed to all experiences; it can be found wherever the individual does not mind forfeiting the option, for some sense of control.
— Justin K. McFarlane Beau
I love the night! It's not uncommon for me to see the light of a new day before closing my eyes on the old one.
— Peggy Toney Horton
Dont give up because you are not getting much.Keep shining ur light no matter how small.God makes all things(small/big)beautiful in his time
— Peter Isekiigbe DE Rock
Light doesn’t always keep the dark things away,” Nyx said.
— Kameron Hurley, Rapture
Imagine someone is fast asleep in a very dark room. The friend who opens the curtains to let the light in will be cursed and hated. But the day had long since started, and the friend still sleeping curses the light, and prefers the darkness. In the same way, those who bring light to a dark situation will be cursed and ridiculed for their optimism and love. They will be scorned and rejected for their joy and hope. But optimism, love, hope, and joy should be pursued anyway. In all things, you must trust in the knowing your brain will never know, the feeling your heart can never reveal, and the Spirit your own soul still hasn’t even begun to explore. This is the profound gift of a firm grasp on faith.
— Sean Patrick Brennan, The Papal Visitor
They prefer a God of an altogether softer flavor. Nothing too extreme. Complaisance, not magnanimity. They do not think upon the “God of God, Light of Light, very God of very God.” They prefer to think in terms of “God liking them.” That’s the God they’ve conjured for themselves.
— Geoffrey Wood
Remember that your Heart—your Truth—will never lead you astray. Let the Light of your Heart guide your way.
— Valerie Rickel
The eye is to light as the soul is to God.
— Geoffrey Wood
Celebrate your life, you are your own light.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Destiny's Gate is filled with darkness and light. If you identify with the darkness, this is a good sign as we all have to embrace the darkness within us in order to heal and be brought into the Light as One.
— Lee Bice-Matheson, Destiny's Gate
A celestial light appeared to Barrett Meeks in the sky over Central Park, four days after Barrett had been mauled, once again, by love.
— Michael Cunningham, The Snow Queen
Everything new is on the rim of our view, in the darkness, below the horizon, so that nothing new is visible but in the light of what we know.
— Zia Haider Rahman
I'd rather be not the light in your lifeThe bright day might make me obscureI'd rather be the cold darknessFor it remains, unseen, uncertain and unsure
— Sanhita Baruah, The Farewell and other poems
Do not fear your inner light.Carry your light to the dark world.
— Lailah GiftyAkita
You know sometimes when I walk into your room with a flashlight or a candle?' I nodded. 'Well, love is like that. Light doesn't have to announce it's way into a room or ask the darkness to leave. It just is. It walks ahead of you, and the darkness rolls back like a tide.' She waved her hand across the room. 'It has to 'cause darkness can't be where light is.
— Charles Martin, Wrapped in Rain
Let go of the heavy pains of yesterday and you will feel lighter to float on top with your values. Arise and float!
— Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
Your inner light is greater than the darkness.May your light shine brightly in every path you travel.
— Lailah GiftyAkita
Carry your light to every dark corner.
— Lailah Gifty Akita