Quotes by Light What is spiritual experience? A snowflake melting, a bee sucking honey, a fat man at a traffic light. Trivia. Frederick Franck lightspiritualmen Let us render the tyrant no aid; let us not hold the light by which he can trace the footprints of our flying brother. Frederick Douglass tyrantslightbrother A lofty mind always thinks nobly, it easily creates vivid, agreeable, and natural fancies, places them in their best light, clothes them with all appropriate adornments, studies others' tastes, and clears away from its own thoughts all that is useless and disagreeable. Francois de La Rochefoucauld clotheslightthinking [This] may prove to be the beginning of some embracing generalization, which will throw light, not only on radioactive processes, but on elements in general and the Periodic Law.... Chemical homogeneity is no longer a guarantee that any supposed element is not a mixture of several of different atomic weights, or that any atomic weight is not merely a mean number. Frederick Soddy lightsciencemean Beyond this world and beyond all other worlds there is an all-perfect light. It is pure intelligence, ecstasy, peace and happiness. It is the light that shines beyond darkness, time, space and dimensionality. Frederick Lenz other-worldsspacelight Faith, like a guillotine. As heavy, as light. Franz Kafka guillotineheavylight What were we doing here? Traveling hundreds or thousands of light-years, to break our hearts? Frederik Pohl lightheartyears It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake. Frederick Douglass lightfireearthquakes But if there has been on this earth no real, perfect human life, no love that never cooled, no faith that never failed, which may shine as a loadstar across the darkness of our experience, a light to light amidst all convictions of our own meanness and all suspicions of other's littleness, why, we may have a religion, but we have not a Christianity. For if we lose Him as a Brother, we cannot feel Him as a Saviour. Frederick William Robertson lightrealbrother A fly is a very light burden; but if it were perpetually to return and settle on one's nose, it might weary us of our very lives. Fredrika Bremer lightnosesmight She liked him. She liked the feeling of liking him. She felt light and smiley and too full of excitement to think of anything else. Freya North lightfeelingsthinking [John Brown's] zeal in the cause of freedom was infinitely superior to mine. Mine was as the taper light, his was as the burning sun... I could speak for the slave. John Brown could fight for the slave. Frederick Douglass governmentlightwar The history of the human race is a continual struggle from darkness into light. It is, therefore, to no purpose to discuss the use of knowledge; man wants to know, and when he ceases to do so, is no longer a man. Fridtjof Nansen lightstrugglemen On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world-art, or philosophy, or learning-regions where the years are scarcely noticed and the young and old can meet in a pale truthful light. Freya Stark lightphilosophyart This solidity is not true. The apparent solidity is the delusion of the senses and of the self. Everything is made up of infinite, intelligent light. Frederick Lenz intelligentlightignorance There's one disturbing notion throughout India that light skin is more attractive than dark. Freida Pinto skinslightdark By fully focusing your mind on your chakras, stilling your thoughts, and increasing your kundalini flow, you can rise above your body consciousness and unite your mind with the clear light of nirvana. Frederick Lenz chakra-meditationbuddhismlight Nothing is worth more than laughter. It is strength to laugh and to abandon oneself, to be light. Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing. Frida Kahlo laughterlightlaughing A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light. Franz Kafka lightbeliefinspirational ... freshness trembles beneath the surface of Everyday, a joy perpetual to all who catch its opal lights beneath the dust of habit. Freya Stark dustlightjoy«123124125126127128129130131132133»
