Top 1200 Light And Shadow Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

Measure your minds height by the shadow it casts.

Every Warrior of the Light has, at least once, believed he was not a Warrior of the Light.

no one who has seen an angel ever mistakes it for a ghost. Angels are remarkable for their warmth and light, and all who see them speak in awe of their irridescent and refulgent light, of brilliant colors, or else of the unbearable whiteness of their being. You are flooded with laughter, happiness.

That which we call substance and reality is shadow and illusion, and that which we call shadow and illusion is substance and reality.

I loved repetition. Every time I turned on a light I knew what would happen. When I flipped the switch, the light went on. It gave me a wonderful feeling of security because it was exactly the same each time.

I believe that the only thing that will dispel the darkness is for the light to come on. And the lights are coming on. Here, there. People are eating more vegetables, living green, taking in and saving animals. All of that is the light coming on.

Love is like a shadow, one can only catch it by falling into it.

There's a poignancy to being with someone older. I think there's a greater appreciation of time and what you have together and what's important, and it can make the little things seem very small. It puts a kind of sharp light mixed with a sort of diffused light on something.

My shadow is only half of what it should be." "Everyone has their shortcomings.

I am entirely alone. I and my shadow fill the universe.

Child abuse casts a shadow the length of a lifetime.

Be light-hearted, light-footed. Be of light step. Don't carry religion like a burden. And don't expect religion to be a teaching; it is not. It is certainly a discipline, but not a teaching at all. Teaching has to be imposed upon you from the outside and teaching can only reach to your mind, never to your heart, and never, never to the very center of your being. Teaching remains intellectual. It is an answer to human curiosity, and curiosity is not a true search.

You have to understand, I grew up in the shadow of the Safeco tower.

We dwell in shadow or in sunlight . . . according to our belief.

Peace is the soft and holy shadow that virtue casts.

I drank that Wine of which the Soul is its vessel. Its ecstasy has stolen my intellect away. A Light came and kindled a Flame in the depth of my Soul. A Light so radiant that the sun orbits around it like a butterfly.

There is only Love -- and Stories. All else is but a shadow dream.

Donald Trump's a bigot without a shadow of a doubt.

Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations.

The light came into the darkness, and the darkness did not understand it, but that no longer mattered because the light was now obliteration the darkness.

Treasure the shadow. ... There are no shadows save from substance cast.

In Bright Shadow: C.S. Lewis on the Imagination for Theology and Discipleship

In Quakerism, your understanding of God is revised in light of your own experience, while in research science, you revise your model in light of data from experiments.

One can see light above the head; that indicates a consciousness outside the body. But that itself is not the Truth-Consciousness or Vijnana. But much light descending from there illumines this consciousness.

What do we mean by the word 'wisdom'? Usually we mean something superior to knowledge, something deeper. In the spiritual world, the word 'wisdom' is not used in that way. Here wisdom means Light, illumining Light, transforming Light. That which illumines our unlit consciousness is wisdom. That which transforms the finite consciousness into the infinite Consciousness is called wisdom.

Once you can open yourself to joy, you feel as if you've transformed your sadness into illumination, which is really all that art is. All we want to do is transform the negative emotions into light. We want to compost them into light.

A little man often cast a long shadow.

Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul.

May Peace reign in all hearts. Let us not forget that Peace is Light; let us not forget that Peace is an essence which emanates from the Absolute. It is Light which emanates from the Absolute. It is the Light of the Ancient of Days. Christ said: “MY PEACE I GIVE YOU, MY PEACE I LEAVE YOU”.

Getting out from under the shadow of Henry Fonda was difficult.

The night sky is only a sort of carbon paper, Blueblack, with the much-poked periods of stars Letting in the light, peephole after peephole--- A bonewhite light, like death, behind all things.

Light comes to us by the sensibility. Without visual sensibility there is no light, no movement.

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.

The light is no mystery, the mystery is that there is something to keep the light from passing through.

We see the light but see not whence it comes. O Light Invisible, we glorify Thee!

I'm a level 5 vegan, I don't eat anything that casts a shadow.

Hope is a delusion; no hand can grasp a wave or a shadow.

Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.

Occasionally, I'll wear glitter or blue eye shadow.

What is literature compared with cooking? The one is shadow, the other is substance.

The girl's lover was gone, but his shadow was still there.

Your nightmares follow you like a shadow, forever.

Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it

And I will place within them as a guide My umpire conscience, whom if they will hear Light after light well used they shall attain, And to the end persisting, safe arrive.

Curiously, light-loving green plants reject the Sun's green light, reflecting it back at you, which is why they look green.

Light is the only connection we have with the Universe beyond our solar system, and the only connection our ancestors had with anything beyond Earth. Follow the light and we can journey from the confines of our planet to other worlds that orbit the Sun without ever dreaming of spacecraft. To look up is to look back in time, because the ancient beams of light are messengers from the Universe's distant past.

When a shadow flits across the landscape of the soul where is the substance?

Some people have an identity. I have an alibi. I have a shadow self.

When stars collide, like you and I, no shadow blocks the sun" - The One

The sun rises every morning and sheds light, vanquishing the night's darkness. The rooster also rises every morning only, unlike the sun, he simply makes noise. But the darkness of the night is dispelled by sunshine, not by the rooster's crowing. The world can use more light and less noise. Wherever I can, I want to be light.

We have to look at the substance of something rather than the shadow.

It's difficult to get away from the shadow of a TV character.

History casts its shadow far into the land of song.

I had the epiphany that laughter was light, and light was laughter, and that this was the secret of the universe.

The visible exhausts me. I am dissolved in shadow.

He felt the comfort of being part of an eternal cycle symbolized by the gold strips on either side of the black mourning band he wore. Light, dark, light. The dark was just an interval.

Find the light and it will show you the path. The path that is shown by your own light is the only path that is right.

When you shine bright, some won't enjoy the shadow you cast.

Afflictions are light when compared with what we really deserve. They are light when compared with the sufferings of the Lord Jesus. But perhaps their real lightness is best seen by comparing them with the weight of glory which is awaiting us.

Politics is the shadow cast on society by big business.