Light - Quotes
A Warrior of the Light knows what he wants. And he has no need to waste time on explanations.
You think that true love is the only thing that can crush your heart the thing that will take your life and light it up or destroy it. Then you become a mother.
Every person must decide, at some point, whether they will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness. (...) Life`s most persistent and urgent question is. "What are you doing for others?"
The questions are diamonds you hold in the light. Study a lifetime and you see different colors from the same jewel. The same questions, asked again, bring you just the answers you need just the minute you need them.
We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively outnumbers the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here.
These words are for my loving Mother
A beautiful being like no other
Giver and the light in my life,
With true compassion she's without a price
A love that will always hold you tight
Making my world where everything is alright.
When all men lift the horn of plenty
in one happy equality,
when all men have an equal station
at the table of justice, and, see
the spiritual light break shining
through the windows of every house
then we can say, no more wandering,
Canaan is here, let us rejoice!
The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract.
When we recognize our place in an immensity of light years and in the passage of ages; when we grasp the intricacy, beauty and subtlety of life, then that soaring feeling, that sense of elation and humility combined, is surely spiritual.
There are two ways of spreading light: to be
The candle or the mirror that reflects it.