Dalai Lama Quotes, Light Quotes, Years Quotes

The way to develop inner peace through meditation begins with the recognition that the destroyer of inner peace is not some external foe, but is within us. Therefore, the solution is within us too. However, that inner change does not take place immediately in the way that we switch on a light, but takes weeks, months and years.

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It was odd, she thought, how if one was alone, one leant to inanimate things; trees, streams, flowers; felt they expressed one; felt they became one; felt they knew one, in a sense were one; felt an irrational tenderness thus (she looked at that long steady light) as for oneself.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Flower Quotes , Light Quotes

But in the end all religions point to the same light. In between the light and us, sometimes there are too many rules. The light is here and there are no rules to follow this light.

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In the far upper corner of my altar is a photo of Joan Crawford in her most fierce Mommy Dearest mode, just to remind me of some of the cost of everyone's hard-earned sweetness and light.

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Tags : Alice Walker Quotes , Light Quotes , Cost Quotes

What is meant by reality? It would seem to be something very erratic, very undependable - now to be found in a dusty road, now in a scrap of newspaper in the street, now a daffodil in the sun. It lights up a group in a room and stamps some casual saying

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Your readiness to suffer will light the torch of freedom which will never be put out.

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Just as your hand has the power to hide the sun, mediocrity has the power to hide your inner light. Do not blame others for your own incompetence.

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There is no justice in following unjust laws. It's time to come into the light and, in the grand tradition of civil disobedience, declare our opposition to this private theft of public culture.

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Tags : Aaron Swartz Quotes , Light Quotes , Law Quotes

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

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Light Quotes , Invisible Quotes

A cannonball travels only two thousand miles an hour; light travels two hundred thousand miles a second. Such is the superiority of Jesus Christ over Napoleon.

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When life descends into the pit I must become my own candle Willingly burning my self To light up the darkness around me.

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Faith, like a guillotine. As heavy, as light.

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Misled by fancy's meteor ray, By passion driven; But yet the light that led astray Was light from heaven.

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Tags : Robert Burns Quotes , Passion Quotes , Light Quotes

Let the men do their duty & the women will be such wonders; the female life lives from the light of the male: see a man's female dependants, you know the man.

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If light can come out of darkness, then alone can love emerge from hatred.

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I can again thy former light restore, Should I repent me: but once put out thy light, Thou cunning'st pattern of excelling nature, I know not where is that Promethean heat That can thy light relume.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Light Quotes , Patterns Quotes

Happy are the painters, for they shall not be lonely. Light and colour, peace and hope, will keep them company to the end of the day.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Lonely Quotes , Light Quotes

The truth isn't always a blinding light. Sometimes it's a deep and dazzling darkness, that illuminates - and burns - just as surely.

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Tags : Albert Einstein Quotes , Light Quotes , Darkness Quotes

It is the great work of nature to transmute sunlight into life. So it is the great end of Christian living to transmute the light of truth into the fruits of holy living.

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Tags : Adoniram Judson Gordon Quotes , Christian Quotes , Light Quotes

Religion may be purified. This great work was begun two hundred years ago: but men can only bear light to come in upon them by degrees.

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