"An unawakened person sees only his mind, which is merely a reflection of the light of pure consciousness arising from the Heart."
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"One man may read the Bhagavata by the light of a lamp, and another may commit a forgery by that very light; but the lamp is unaffected. The sun sheds its light on the wicked as well as on the virtuous."
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"The angels are Divine messengers of light who offer us guidance... Our willingness to receive Divine guidance is what positions us at the right time and place for a message."
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"I look to the diffusion of light and education as the resource most to be relied on for ameliorating the condition, promoting the virtue and advancing the happiness of man."
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"We are like plants which have the one choice of being in or out of the light."
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"Meditate nothing. Learn to contemplate. Contemplate glory. There will be a light. Contemplate Truth until it burns your eyes out."
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"The storyteller makes no choice, soon you will not hear his voice, his job is to shed light, and not to master"
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"There is no country... where there are not somewhere lovers of freedom who look to this country to carry the torch and keep it burning bright until such time as they may again be able to light their extinguished torches at our flame. We owe it not only to our own people but to the world to preserve our soul for that."
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"There are no black holes - in the sense of regimes from which light can't escape to infinity. There are however apparent horizons which persist for a period of time."
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"Facts do not 'speak for themselves'; they are read in the light of theory."
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"Journeys bring power and love back into you. If you can't go somewhere, move in the passageways of the self. They are like shafts of light, always changing, and you change when you explore them."
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"Woman is the light of God."
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"Nothing can nourish the soul but LIGHT. Rid yourself of material needs and be set FREE."
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"We are all bathed in the same light."
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"The lights grow brighter as the earth lurches away from the sun."
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"Passive resistance seeks to rejoin politics and religion and to test all our actions in the light of ethical principles."
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"For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach."
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"It always felt like the price of being a writer was that you would - even in the most terrible moments, there was a little phantom version of you sitting on your shoulder with a notebook going, I can use this. OK, look at the way that the light is glinting off the broken plastic on the road next to the blood. You can use this. And it was always a very strange feeling."
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"However, the danger in [socially unbalanced relationships] is that the subjection of the woman temporarily calms the man's jealousy but also renders it more demanding. He ends up making his mistress live like those prisoners on whom light is shone day and night in order for them to be better watched. And things always end in tragedy."
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"Do not the Rays of Light which fall upon Bodies, and are reflected or refracted, begin to bend before they arrive at the Bodies; and are they not reflected, refracted, and inflected, by one and the same Principle, acting variously in various Circumstances?"
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