Light

Ingrid Goff-Maidoff

"Open your inmost chamber and light its lamp." ~Mirabai

The light of Divine Energy is in all of us and in everything. We catch a natural evidence of this light in the dawning of each new day, in the stars at night, and the glitter that the sun and moon cast upon the water. I offer these selections from my book of quotations, Joy,Light, Beautiful Wisdom in hopes you'll find inspiration in this season of light.

You are the light of the world. ~Jesus

Our real personality is all light, all love, always shining.
~Upanishads

"There is a light that shines beyond all things on earth,
beyond us all, beyond the heavens,
beyond the highest, the very highest heavens.
This is the light that shines in our heart."
~ The Upanishads

Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. --attributed to the Buddha

When there is light in the soul,
there is beauty in the person.
When there is beauty in the person,
there is harmony in the home.
When there is harmony in the home,
there is honor in the nation.
When there is honor in the nation,
there can be peace in the world.

~Chinese Proverb

The seeker who sets out upon the way
shines bright over the world.
~Buddha

The longing for light
is the longing for consciousness.
~Carl G. Jung

You will decide on a matter,
And it will be established for you,
And light will shine on your ways.
~Job 22:28

Mat all beings be peaceful.
May all beings be happy.
May all beings be safe.
May all beings awaken to the light
of their true nature.
May all beings be free.
~Metta Prayer

"Go forth in every direction~
for the happiness, the harmony,
the welfare of the many.
Offer your heart,
the seeds of understanding,
like a lamp overturned and re-lit,
illuminating the darkness."

~Buddha

Closing your eyes,
bring light into your heart.
Think of your whole being
as a cup to fill,
or a lamp to be lit.
Imagine yourself filling
with joyful peace, God, love, light,
sweetness, honey radiance.
This is the source of beauty.
~Ingrid Goff-Maidoff,
The Honey Sutras

Once mindful compassion is realized
a light lights in the soul.
A warm passion and peace enfold you,
and an interior radiance glows.
The heart becomes generous,
the tongue becomes sweet,
the mind supple and forgiving.
~The Honey Sutras

"This little light of mine, I'm gonna let it shine." ~Traditional

"Open your inmost chamber and light its lamp." ~Mirabai

Someday perhaps the inner light will shine forth from us,
and then we shall need no other light. ~Pierre Simon De La Place

We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own. ~Ben Sweetland

Light gives of itself freely, filling all available space. It does not seek anything in return; it asks not whether you are friend or foe. It gives of itself and is not thereby diminished. ~Michael Strassfeld

To study the way
is to study the self.
To study the self is to forget the self.
To forget the self is to be enlightened by all things.
~Zen Master Dogen
1200-1253 AD

Those who find delight in freedom from attachment in the renunciation of clinging, free from the inflow of thoughts, they are like shining lights, having reached final liberation in the world. ~Buddha

Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light. ~Theodore Roethke

Energy is eternal delight. ~William Blake

We have buried so much of the delicate magic of life. ~D.H. Lawrence

People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within. ~Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you. ~Maori Proverb

When you possess light within, you see it externally. ~Anaïs Nin

Luminosity is the nature of one's mind, that eons of confusion cannot darken. ~Lama Shabkar

From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things, and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark. ~Rabindranath Tagore

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart. ~Kahlil Gibran

We shall find peace.
We shall hear the angels.
We shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
~Anton Chekhov


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