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"He saw things in a way that others did not, so that a city I had lived in all my life seemed a different place, so that a woman became beautiful with the light on her face."
"My investigations resembled the pursuit of the solution to a problem for which I had three data: the object, the thing connected with it in the shadow of my consciousness, and the light wherein that thing would become apparent."
"At the exact moment any decision seems to be being made, it's usually long after the real decision was actually made--like light we see emitted from stars."
"What is meditation? Meditation is our conscious awareness of something vast and infinite within us. Meditation grants us Peace, Light and Bliss."
"No matter how fleeting Your smile is, Your smile is the very beginning Of your wisdom-light."
"There is a veil between the Supermind above and the lower Prakriti below - the veil of ingrained formations. This veil may completely withdraw or be partially withdrawn. Thus even if there is some little opening, with the contact of Light from above the lower nature will get slowly changed."
"Study your subject through half-closed eyes before starting to draw - you'll find that the lights and darks are exaggerated and easier to identify."
"If you wish for light, Be ready to receive light."
"The elf’s eyes found him, and his lips trembled with the effort to form words. ‘Harry... Potter...’ And then with a little shudder the elf became quite still, and his eyes were nothing more than great, glassy orbs sprinkled with light from the stars they could not see."
"I thought of Gatsby's wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy's dock. He had come a long way to this lawn and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him. [- Nick Carroway]"
"and her skin shone luminous and impossibly pale, as if it drank light from the moon."
"In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun."
"Even as wisdom often comes from the mouths of babes, so does it often come from the mouths of old people. The golden rule is to test everything in the light of reason and experience, no matter from where it comes."
". . . integral wisdom involves a direct participation in every moment: the observer and the observed are dissolved in the light of pure awareness, and no mental concepts or attitudes are present to dim that light."
"If you kin see de light at daybreak, you don't keer if you die at dusk. It's so many people never seen de light at all."
"Now I'm free of him and I'm light as a feather. There's no weight holding me down; I'm ready to spread my wings and fly."
"A burthen cheerfully borne becomes light"
"Night was spreading slowly around the spinning Earth. It should have been full of pinpricks of light. It was not. There were five billion people down there. What was going to happen soon would make barbarism look like a picnic - hot, nasty, and eventually given over to the ants."
"It's a bit like walking down a long, dark corridor never knowing when the light will go on."
"My singing is part of me, like my stoutness, or my light hair, or my poor eyesight."
