Top 1200 Spiritual Darkness Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Actors are cave dwellers in a rich darkness which they love and hate.

While I've always been critical about this peddling of spiritual materialism, it wasn't until I went to Nepal that I came face-to-face with my own spiritual materialism. The thing is, Kathmandu is noisy, and dusty, and crowded, and everywhere you go you see these same Western yoga teachers, hashish-smoking backpackers, and fair-trade shop owners, all seeking the stalls filled with amazing Buddha statues, hand carved mirrors, beautiful yak scarves, and thangka paintings. And everyone is buying stuff!

Sometimes it is easier to see the light when you stand partly in the darkness.

Yet spiritual realizations often remain compartmentalized, apart from everyday life, or become used as a rationale for living in an impersonal or soulless way. That is why, if we are to live our realizations and bring them into this world, we also need to work on the vessel of spirit - our embodied humanity. Soulwork is the forging of this vessel... If spiritual work brings freedom, soulwork brings integration. Both are necessary for a complete human life.

Theosophy occupies a central place in the history of new spiritual movements, for the writings of Blavatsky and some of her followers have had a great influence outside of her organization. … The importance of Theosophy in modern history should not be underestimated. Not only have the writings of Blavatsky and others inspired several generations of occultists, but the movement had a remarkable role in the restoration to the colonial peoples of nineteenth century Asia of their own spiritual heritage.

To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.

When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed.

People populate the darkness; with ghosts, with gods, with electrons, with tales.

Every moment you are present, there is a little less darkness in our world.

Darkness is important. If you were having fun all the time, you wouldn't know what dark is.

Fly without wings; Dream with open eyes; See in darkness.

The unsaved people will be cast into utter darkness forever.

You will fear the darkness only to the extent that you yourself are not providing light.

Life itself is dispare, so we must make darkness our ally

I prefer to believe the opposite - that there is always an indestructible beauty at the heart of darkness.

I'm concerned about a better world. I'm concerned about justice; I'm concerned about brotherhood; I'm concerned about truth. And when one is concerned about that, he can never advocate violence. For through violence you may murder a murderer, but you can't murder murder. Through violence you may murder a liar, but you can't establish truth. Through violence you may murder a hater, but you can't murder hate through violence. Darkness cannot put out darkness; only light can do that.

When the light comes into a room, we do not have to say, "Now what are we going to do about the darkness?" It's gone!

Those who are unaware they are walking in darkness will never seek the light.

There is not a single darkness if you life that God cannot bring His light upon.

All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.

The proper response, as Hanukkah teaches, is not to curse the darkness but to light a candle.

He is beauty, inside and out. He is the silver lining in a world of darkness. He is my light.

While death and darkness girdle me I grope for immortality.

I've always been fascinated with death and darkness, and I still am.

Sometimes it is better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.

That's how Darkness works. It turns love into something bad.

It's impossible to exorcise the darkness out of you. We can pretend it's not there until something bursts.

It's not like activist work is a nice add-on to what's really important, the spiritual work. The two are inseparable and it goes both ways. Many people are hardcore activists for decades, and they encounter burnout, futility, or a feeling of imbalance. Sometimes they need to go so far as to drop their activism and go on a spiritual journey. They're realizing that all the stuff they're trying to change in the world isn't just out there in the world. It's in them, too. And as long as they're blind to what's in them, they're going to continually re-create it in all that they do.

Never doubt God in the darkness what he has given us in the light.

Darkness got you like Shelob gor Frodo, only worse.

Christians often equate holiness with activism and spiritual disciplines. And while it's true that activism is often the outgrowth of holiness and spiritual disciplines are necessary for the cultivation of holiness, the pattern of piety in the Scripture is more explicitly about our character. We put off sin and put on righteousness. We put to death the deeds of the flesh and put on Christ. To use the older language, we pursue mortification of the old man and the vivification of the new.

Therefore a person fully absorbed in the bodily concept of life is surely killing himself by not making spiritual progress. Such a person is called pasu-ghna. Especially excluded from spiritual life are the animal hunters, who are not interested in hearing and chanting the holy name of the Lord. Such hunters are always unhappy, both in this life and in the next. It is therefore said that a hunter should neither die nor live because for such persons both living and dying are troublesome.

The darkness that had come in from the Mediterranean covered the city so detested by the procurator.

If you have a problem or desire a healing, try this exercise before falling asleep. Catch yourself at that point just before you fall asleep - between waking and sleep. Imagine bathing yourself with the healing orange light. You then can ask the Inner Master to help you regain spiritual balance by saying, "If it's for the good of all concerned and doesn't interfere with my spiritual growth, would you please heal me?" Then holding that thought, drift into sleep.

Concealed in every new situation we face is a spiritual lesson to be learned and a spiritual blessing for us if we learn that lesson. It is good to be tested. We grow and learn through passing tests. I look upon all my tests as good experiences. Before I was tested, I believed I would act in a loving or non-fearing way. After I was tested, I knew! Every test turned out to be an uplifting experience. And it is not important that the outcome be according to our wishes.

No degree of worldly darkness can extinguish the glow of a soul's inner light.

Something pure to burn away the darkness that hides inside my mind

Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.

Chris Cornell painted in song the darkness and beauty of life in Seattle.

The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.

It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.

The darkness crumbles away It is the same old druid Time as ever.

Laughter is a powerful weapon for it carries the light. To laugh is to defy the darkness.

Light for some time to come will have to be called darkness.

All of the images of Jesus and of the kingdom are small things: be a light in the darkness.

It is the wise man's part to leave in darkness everything that is ugly.

There is a spiritual capacity in carbon as there is a carbon component functioning in our highest spiritual experience. If some scientists consider that all this is merely a material process, then what they call matter, I call mind, soul, spirit, or consciousness. Possibly it is a question of terminology, since scientists too on occasion use terms that express awe and mystery. Most often, perhaps, they use the expression that some of the natural forms they encounter seem to be "telling them something."

Darkness is good. Dick Cheney. Darth Vader. Satan. That's power.

I don't flinch from darkness, but I've always been bothered by what I call gore-nography.

The period before the dawn of knowledge is called the age of darkness.

However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.

I sometimes like to sit in the silence and darkness and listen to my heart shine.

No matter what, you must let your inner light guide you out of the darkness.

Second, if you disbelieve in the reality of good and evil spirit agents, you fundamentally change the narrative of Scripture. The motif of spiritual warfare is a through-line of both the Old and New Testaments (NT). And in the NT, the meaning of what Jesus was doing in his life, ministry, death and resurrection is fundamentally tied up with the belief in spiritual warfare. Take away Satan, and you take away one of the most fundamental reasons Jesus came to earth!

Rain symbolizes darkness but also represents an essential part of rebirth.

I believe God has called His people to be a light in darkness.

Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness.

There would be too great darkness, if truth had not visible signs.

When dealing with a difficult person, all that matters from a spiritual standpoint is how you react and treat the person. It's not about getting the other person to change or agree with you. Your spiritual growth is all about the way that YOU deal with the relationship, the person, and the situation. Even if the situation would justify you acting harshly, resist this temptation. Ask for heaven to purify and uplift your thoughts and feelings so that everything you do and say is aligned with Divine Love. This is the path and purpose of the lightworker. This is why you are here.

But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?