I Quotes
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“In the light of calm and steady self-awareness, inner energies wake up and work miracles without any effort on your part.”
“In the light of consciousness all sorts of things happen and one need not give special importance to any. The sight of a flower is as marvelous as the vision of God. Let them be. Why remember them and then make memory into a problem? Be bland about them; do not divide them into high and low, inner and outer, lasting and transient. Go beyond, go back to the source, go to the self that is the same whatever happens.”
“In the light of eternity, dissolved the flesh,
In infinite space where darkness melts,
There I sit at the banquet of stars,
to partake of the feast of heaven.
Who am I, if not a soul within the shell?
Who am I, if not light, trapped in the body inside?”
“In the light of eternity we shall see that what we desired would have been fatal to us, and that what we would have avoided was essential to our well-being.”
“In the light of fuller day,
Of purer science, holier laws.”
Source: Andromeda and Other Poems: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition
“In the light of God, I open up as the fiery center of a fresh flower.
In divine whispers, I open up as the quivering mouth of a singer.
Is this God, giving spring to my heart?”
“In the light of her son's comment she reconsidered the scene at the mosque, to see whose impression was correct. Yes it could be worked into quite an unpleasant scene. The doctor had begun by bullying her, had said Mrs Callendar was nice, and then - finding the ground safe - had changed; he had alternately whined over his grievances and patronized her, had run a dozen ways in a single sentence, had been unreliable, inquisitive, vain. Yes, it was all true, but how false as a summary of the man; the essential life of him had been slain.”
“In the light of His example we can see, in the faith of His power we too can prove, that suffering is to God’s child the token of the Father’s love, and the channel of His richest blessing. [. . .]
Suffering is the way of the rent veil, the new and living way Jesus walked in and opened for us.”
Source: Holy in Christ: A devotional look at your life
“In the light of his vision that is the perspective that allows him to be grateful that things are not worse he has found his freedom and joy: his thoughts are peace, his words are peace and his work is peace.”
“In the Light of interbeing, peace and happiness in your daily life means peace and happiness in the world.”
Source: Thich Nhat Hanh: Essential Writings
“In the light of love, I find the glory of God’s grace.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“in the light of love...
love is beauty, like an endlessly glowing field of flowers...
love is the stars, shining through in a world of darkness...
love is the beacon, lighting the way to safe harbour...
love is, what light dreams about becoming...
dreaming light, love is my light.”
“In the light of one choice, we will sing with one voice.”
“In the light of our culture, these are not unreasonable questions and tactics, but if once again, we try to see the lens through which we look, we can see that there is far too great an emphasis placed on the future.”
“In the light of our egos, we are all dethroned monarchs”
“In the light of reincarnation life changes its aspect, for it becomes the school of the eternal Man within us, who seeks therein his development, the Man that was and is and shall be, for whom the hour will never strike.”
Source: Reincarnation
“In the light of this reflection, the library seemed all the more disturbing to me. It was then the place of a long, centuries-old murmuring, an imperceptible dialogue between one parchment and another, a living thing, a receptacle of powers not to be ruled by a human mind, a treasure of secrets emanated by many minds, surviving the death of those who had produced them or had been their conveyors.”
Source: The Name of the Rose
“In the light of trust, as it develops slowly over time, you will find that you are a privileged child of the universe, entirely safe, entirely supported, entirely loved.”
Source: The Way Of The Wizard: 20 Lessons for Living a Magical Life
“In the light of what Proust wrote with so mild a stimulus, it is the world's loss that he did not have a heartier appetite. On a dozen Gardiner's Island oysters, a bowl of clam chowder, a peck of steamers, some bay scallops, three sauteed soft-shelled crabs, a few ears of fresh picked corn, a thin swordfish steak of generous area, a pair of lobsters, and a Long Island Duck, he might have written a masterpiece.”
“In the light of what Thomas Aquinas and Erasmus wrote it is amusing to find that Thomas himself became the butt of a jest which embodied what they both loathed. Thomas was silently composing a hymn in his mind while eating a lamprey. He finished hymn and lamprey together. To give thanks to God for his hymn he muttered one of Christ’s seven last words on the Cross, Consummatum est! — ‘It is finished!’ Bystanders were shocked. They thought he was lightly referring to the lamprey he had just consumed.”
Source: Laughter at the Foot of the Cross
“In the Light of your Wisdom, You Shine. In the Midst of your Truth, Your Faith is Evident. From inside your Spirit, You are Love.”
Source: Release The Ink
“In the light, our hearts only knows love.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“In the light we can see what is and what is not. We know what is right and what is inappropriate.”
“In the light, we find the light of life.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“In the light, we shall brightly.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“In the light, we shine brightly.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“In the light, the earth remains our first and our last love. Our brothers are breathing under the same sky as we; justice is a living thing. Now is born that strange joy which helps one live and die, and which we shall never again postpone to a later time.”
“In the light, we read the inventions of others; in the darkness we invent our own stories.”
Source: The Library at Night
“In the limelight I play it off fine, but I can't handle it when I turn off my night-light.”
“In the liner notes, music is fine by itself. It doesn't need any explanation.”
“In the lingering moments before you die your body releases DMT. The same drug that makes you dream. The same drug found in every living animal. It's not an evolutionary trick to make you survive. Your body is choosing to release this drug now because it believes your fate is too grim for you to comprehend. So you dream. You dream that everything will be fine. You dream that nothing happened at all. It's in this moment that your body sits across from you. It tells you 'looks like we're not gonna make it this time.' You sit around a fire and recollect the past before soon parting ways back to the atomic ether. Your body does this because it loves you. You have never met anyone like your body. Your body has been with you everyday, good and bad. It's even kept a journal of your life carved in scars. Your eyelashes always wiped the tears from your eyes.”
“In the liquid amber within the ivory porcelain, the initiated may touch the sweet reticence of Confucius, the piquancy of Laotse, and the ethereal aroma of Sakyamuni himself.”
Source: The Book of Tea
“In the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards higher standards of rights, justice and freedom - along with all too many illustrations of how remote is the goal of a decent society.”
“In the literary as well as military world, most powerful abilities will often be found concealed under a rustic garb.”
“In the literature of France Moliere occupies the same kind of position as Cervantes in that of Spain, Dante in that of Italy, and Shakespeare in that of England. His glory is more than national - it is universal.”
Source: Landmarks in French Literature
“In the little chaos of Pearl's character there might be seen emerging-and could have been from the very first-the steadfast principles of an unflinching courage-an uncontrollable will-a sturdy pride which might be disciplined into self-respect-and a bitter scorn of many things, which, when examined, might be found to have the taint of falsehood in them.”
Source: The Scarlet Letter
“In the little hall leading to it was a rack holding various Socialist or radical newspapers, tracts, and pamphlets in very small print and on very bad paper. The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.”
Source: Daughter of Earth
“In the little patch of concrete by the front porch were the two pennies stuck in there when Leroy and I started first grade. “Long as we got those two cents,” Carrie would say, “we ain’t broke.”
Source: Rubyfruit Jungle
“In the little town where I live in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, we now have a 'Public Safety Complex' around the corner from what used to be our hokey Andy Griffith-esque fire station.”
“In the little travel I've done to other countries, the Jews there embraced me saying, Come to our house, come and have Shabbat with us. Jews in the Diaspora. I didn't imagine an Israeli traveling to the U.S. would feel this intensity of a forced relationship.”
“In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.”
“In the lives of children, pumpkins turn into coaches, mice and rats turn into men. When we grow up, we realize it is far more common for men to turn into rats.”
“In the lives of great men, neither did fate give up, NOR DID THEY.”
“In the lives of individuals and societies, language is a factor of greater importance than any other. For the study of language to remain solely the business of a handful of specialists would be a quite unacceptable state of affairs.”
Source: Course in General Linguistics
“In the lives of saints I look for confirmation of excess. To them it is not strange to spend nights on a mountain or to forgo food. For them, the visionary and the everyday coincide. Above all, they have no domestic virtues, preferring intensity to comfort. Despite their inhospitable ways, they ferment with unexpected life, like those bleak railway cuttings that host horizontal dandelions. They know there is no passion without pain.”
Source: The World and Other Places: Stories
“In the lives of working people the dramatic and vita moments of death and birth are passed over in silence.”
Source: Sherwood Anderson: Short Stories
“In the living room, the consensus among the guests was that Scotty’s looks favored his father, but the Judge was quick to disagree: ‘He doesn’t look a thing like me. He looks like an hors d'oeuvre.’
Hearing this, Joan thought the following, and pledged it to herself, as both prayer and promise: You will be loved, Scotty Ocean.
And while the guests laughed at the Judge’s remark, Joan leaned over and softly whispered to her newborn son, 'You will be loved.”
“In the living room, the men smoke and snack and in the kitchen the women prepare the dinner. Often times they even bought the groceries themselves. Yet when the woman speaks, the man asks the woman: “And so, what do you bring to the table?”
“In the locker room I was getting impatient to get on the court, I had to warm up several times.”
“In the locker rooms, I'm always suggesting, "You need Berlei." Because it's the best brand for women and for me.”