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Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein Physicist

"Evil does not exist sir, or at least it does not exist unto itself. Evil is simply the absence of God. It is just like darkness and cold, a word that man has created to describe the absence of God. God did not create evil. Evil is not like faith, or love that exist just as does light and heat. Evil is the result of what happens when man does not have God's love present in his heart. It's like the cold that comes when there is no heat or the darkness that comes when there is no light."

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Malcolm X
Malcolm X Civil Rights Activist, Minister

"We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity."

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Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf Novelist

"She dares me to pour myself out like a living waterfall. She dares me to enter the soul that is more than my own; she extinguishes fear in mere seconds. She lets light come through."

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Omar Khayyam
Omar Khayyam Poet, Mathematician, Astronomer

"How sad, a heart that does not know how to love, that does not know what it is to be drunk with love. If you are not in love, how can you enjoy the blinding light of the sun, the soft light of the moon?"

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Isaac Newton Mathematician, Physicist, Astronomer
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"Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance."

Light Interesting Distance
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Sri Chinmoy Spiritual Teacher, Poet, Musician
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"Listen to the inner light; It will guide you. Listen to the inner Peace; It will feed you. Listen to the inner Love; It will transform you, It will divinise you, It will immortalise you."

Love Light Peace
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Rabindranath Tagore Poet, Playwright, Novelist
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"A teacher can never truly teach unless he is still learning himself. A lamp can never light another lamp unless it continues to burn its own flame. The teacher who has come to the end of his subject, who has no living traffic with his knowledge but merely repeats his lesson to his students, can only load their minds, he cannot quicken them."

Light Teacher Teaching
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Ramana Maharshi Spiritual Teacher
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"Correcting oneself is correcting the whole world. The Sun is simply bright. It does not correct anyone. Because it shines, the whole world is full of light. Transforming yourself is a means of giving light to the whole world."

Mean Giving Light
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Le Corbusier Architect, Designer, Urban Planner
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"Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep."

Men Light Sleep
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Pablo Neruda Poet, Diplomat
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"If each day falls inside each night, there exists a well where clarity is imprisoned. We need to sit on the rim of the well of darkness and fish for fallen light with patience."

Light Fall Night
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Le Corbusier Architect, Designer, Urban Planner
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"Architecture is the masterly, correct, and magnificent play of masses brought together in light. Our eyes are made to see forms in light: light and shade reveal these forms."

Eye Play Light
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Carl Jung Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst
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"Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darkness's of other people. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely. Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes."

Heart Dream Light
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Albert Einstein Physicist
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"We are slowed down sound and light waves, a walking bundle of frequencies tuned into the cosmos. We are souls dressed up in sacred biochemical garments and our bodies are the instruments through which our souls play their music."

Play Soul Light
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John Calvin Theologian, Reformer
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"For the fetus, though enclosed in the womb of its mother, is already a human being, and it is a monstrous crime to rob it of the life which it has not yet begun to enjoy. If it seems more horrible to kill a man in his own house than in a field, because a man's house is his place of most secure refuge, it ought surely to be deemed more atrocious to destroy a fetus in the womb before it has come to light."

Men Mother Light
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Mother Angelica Nun, Television Personality
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"If you want to be holy, if you seek meaning in your life, start looking into your own life and attacking your pride in all of its many forms. God will give you extraordinary light and the ultimate reward of holiness. For your holiness relies not on what you do, but on what you allow God to do through you. Have courage. God will perfect you."

Giving Light Pride
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Mooji Spiritual Teacher
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"Some beings will walk with you for the duration of this bodily existence, up to the very end. Some will come with bright promises, bright lights, but they fade quickly. Others come, they don’t look like they will go very far, but they are marathon runners; they’re there with you all the time. You cannot determine this... Somehow in the flow of your own unique river, you will see that everything is as it should be."

Light Unique Rivers
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Ernest Holmes Writer
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"We have within us, a power that is greater than anything we shall ever contact in the outer, a power that can overcome every obstacle in our life and set us safe, satisfied and at peace, healed and prosperous, in a new light, and in a new life."

Light Overcoming Safe
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Elijah Muhammad Religious Leader
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"Acquire knowledge. It enables its possessor to distinguish right from wrong; it lights the way to Heaven; it is our friend in the desert, our society in solitude, our companion when friendless; it guides us to happiness; it sustains us in misery; it is an ornament among our friends and an armor against enemies."

Light Happiness Heaven
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