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"When you suppress your true feelings or follow a path that isn’t really yours, you aren’t living your authentic self. Your soul made a plan for this life before you incarnated, and that plan is your true life purpose. Acting in line with your life purpose is one way to live in the light, another step on the path toward expanded consciousness."
"Some said America took a step forward electing a black president. In light of the unconstitutiona l expansion of powers, lack of transparency and fueling the fires of unrest that clearly hasn't been the case. Vote based on merits, not to fill a racial quota."
"The light is the left hand of darkness."
"Claim your place in the sun and go forward into the light. The tools are there; the path is known; you simply have to turn your back on a culture that has gone sterile and dead, and get with the programme of a living world and a re-empowerment of the imagination."
"In the midst of darkness, light persists."
"It was my dad’s idea that music is supposed to be more than simply about entertainment and making a living, but about being of service as an integral part of the consciousness of the world. In honor of him and because it’s right, I use music in that light."
"Laa shay'a waqi'un moutlaq bale kouloun moumkine...We work in the Dark, to serve the Light."
"People who have known the joy of God point each other to flashes of light here and there, and remind each other that they reveal the hidden but real Presence of God. They discover that there are people who heal each other's wounds, forgive each other's offenses, share their possessions, foster the spirit of community, celebrate the gifts they have received, and live in constant anticipation of the full manifestation of God's Glory."
"For darkness restores what light cannot repair."
"Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness."
"The beauty of a piece of music is not in its technique but in the Soul of its creator; nor is it in the sound vibrations of the piece but in the silence of the Light from which the sound springs."
"There's something luxurious about having a girl light your cigarette. In fact, I got married once on account of that."
"Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us."
"Hydrogen is a light, odorless gas, which, given enough time, turns into people."
"A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning."
"All truth and understanding is a result of a divine light which is God Himself."
"Everybody has a choice. I am not here to shove my light down everybody's throat. For those who don't want it, I have nothing to defend."
"Rely upon your own judgment; be true to your own conscience; follow the light that is within you; all outward lights are so many will-o'-the-wisps. There will be those who tell you that you are foolish; that your judgment is faulty; that your conscience is all awry, and that the light within you is darkness; but heed them not. If what they say is true, the sooner you, as a searcher of wisdom, find it out the better, and you can only make that discovery by bringing your powers to the test. Therefore, pursue your course bravely."
"Happiness is attained, not through self-interest, but through unconditional fidelity in endless love of eternal light."
"The world can only be redeemed through action--movement--motion. Uncoerced, unbribed, and unbought, humanity will move toward the light."
