Alan Lightman Quotes, Commitment Quotes, Light Quotes

Some make light of decisions, arguing that all possible decisions will occur. In such a world, how could one be responsible for his actions? Others hold that each decision must be considered and committed to, that without commitment there is chaos. Such people are content to live in contradictory worlds, so long as they know the reason for each.

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The academic mind reflects infinity, and is full of light by the simple process of being shallow and standing still.

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The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.

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Chameleons feed on light and air: Poets food is love and fame.

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Walk towards the light, put it on your head and then crush your shadow that hides under your feet

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When you're learning, you're burning - putting out a lot of heat. When you're all burned up, then you become light.

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Tags : Adi Da Quotes , Light Quotes , Burning Quotes

Life is easy For the man who is without shame, Impudent as a crow, A vicious gossip, Vain, meddlesome, dissolute. But life is hard For the man who quietly undertakes The way of perfection, With purity, detachment and vigor. He sees light.

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Know then, unnumber'd Spirits round thee fly, The light Militia of the lower sky.

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Devils soonest tempt, resembling spirits of light.

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How does light enter a house? If the windows are open. How does light enter a human? If the door of love is open.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Love Is Quotes , Light Quotes

Of old sat Freedom on the heights The thunders breaking at her feet: Above her shook the starry lights; She heard the torrents meet.

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Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Freedom Quotes , Light Quotes

Let the mind be empty, and not filled with the things of the mind. Then there is only meditation, and not a meditor who is meditating . . . The mind must be clear, without movement, and in the light of that clarity the timeless will be revealed.

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Tags : Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes , Spiritual Quotes , Light Quotes

The light of the Way seems dim.

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The one created thing which we cannot look at is the one thing in the light of which we look at everything.

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Sometimes, we need to be strangers to ourselves. Then the hidden light in our soul will illuminate what we need to see.

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Each stone, each bend cries welcome to him. He identifies with the mountains and the streams, he sees something of his own soul in the plants and the animals and the birds of the field.

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If you gave your inner genius as much credence as your inner critic, you would be light years ahead of where you now stand.

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Hail, holy light! offspring of heaven firstborn! Or of th' eternal co-eternal beam, May I express thee unblam'd? since God is light And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate!

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Tags : John Milton Quotes , Light Quotes , Essence Quotes

I have never been able to soothe myself with the sugary delusions of religion; for these things stand convicted of the utmost absurdity in light of modern scientific knowledge.

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Tags : H. P. Lovecraft Quotes , Light Quotes , Able Quotes

Crime and vice generally require darkness for prowling. They disappear when light plays upon them.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Light Quotes , Play Quotes