A Quote by Tilopa

One torch can dissipate the accumulated darkness of a thousand aeons.

Tilopa

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Darkness Thousand Torch

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Tilopa
988 - 1069

Open up a few corpses: you will dissipate at once the darkness that observation alone could not dissipate.

Marie Francois Xavier Bichat

Across the moment, aeons speak with aeons. More than we experienced has gone by.

Rainer Maria Rilke

To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.

Thomas Jefferson

The unprecedented success of Keynesianism is due to the fact that it provides an apparent justification for the 'deficit spending' policies of contemporary governments. It is the pseudo-philosophy of those who can think of nothing else than to dissipate the capital accumulated by previous generations.

Ludwig von Mises

Reach me a gentian, give me a torch! Let me guide myself with the blue, forked torch of a flower down the darker and darker stairs, where blue is darkened on blueness even where Persephone goes, just now, from the frosted September to the sightless realm where darkness is awake upon the dark.

D. H. Lawrence

There's power in the night. There's terror in the darkness. Despite all our accumulated history, learning, and experience, we remember. We remember times when we were too small to reach the light switch on the wall, and when darkness itself was enough to make us cry out in fear.

Jim Butcher

Don't listen to me. Listen to yourself ... People often ask me at this age, 'Who am I passing the torch to?' First of all, I'm not giving up my torch, thank you! I'm using my torch to light other people's torches. ... If we each have a torch, there's a lot more light.

Gloria Steinem

Enter with the torch in the stadium. 80,000 people screaming. I was waiting downstairs for the start for 10 hours; I was so tired with the torch. I give the torch to the combined ski cross country that they win gold in Lillehammer in 1994.