“One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable and therefore not popular.”
“There are dead stars that still shine because their light is trapped in time. Where do I stand in this light, which does not strictly exist?”
“Some people are in such utter darkness that they will burn you just to see a light. Try not to take it personally.”
“Do not be dismayed by the brokenness of the world. All things break. And all things can be mended. Not with time, as they say, but with intention. So go. Love intentionally, extravagantly, unconditionally. The broken world waits in darkness for the light that is you.”
“Richard began to understand darkness: darkness as something solid and real, so much more than a simple absence of light. He felt it touch his skin, questing, moving, exploring: gliding through his mind. It slipped into his lungs, behind his eyes, into his mouth...”
“Your need for acceptance can make you invisible in this world. Don t let anything stand in the way of the light that shines through this form. Risk being seen in all of your glory.”
“It s not easy to be Light when you ve been Dark. It s almost too much to ask anyone. -Macon Ravenwood”
“There are many goals but one path - the path of compassion.”
“The only whole heart is a broken one because it lets the light in.”
“Life throws challenges and every challenge comes with rainbows and lights to conquer it.”
“Those who love much, do much and accomplish much, and whatever is done with love is done well.... Love is the best and noblest thing in the human heart, especially when it is tested by life as gold is tested by fire. Happy is he who has loved much, and although he may have wavered and doubted, he has kept that divine spark alive and returned to what was in the beginning and ever shall be. If only one keeps loving faithfully what is truly worth loving and does not squander one s love on trivial and insignificant and meaningless things then one will gradually obtain more light and grow stronger.”
“No one lights a lamp in order to hide it behind the door: the purpose of light is to create more light, to open people s eyes, to reveal the marvels around.”
“Feeling at peace, however fragilely, made it easy to slip into the visionary end of the dark-sight. The rose shadows said that they loved the sun, but that they also loved the dark, where their roots grew through the lightless mystery of the earth. The roses said: You do not have to choose. ”
“In the light, we read the inventions of others; in the darkness we invent our own stories. ”
“If there be light, then there is darkness; if cold, heat; if height, depth; if solid, fluid; if hard, soft; if rough, smooth; if calm, tempest; if prosperity, adversity; if life, death.”
“I want you to know, if you ever read this, there was a time when I would rather have had you by my side than any one of these words; I would rather have had you by my side than all the blue in the world. But now you are talking as if love were a consolation. Simone Weil warned otherwise. Love is not consolation, she wrote. It is light. All right then, let me try to rephrase. When I was alive, I aimed to be a student not of longing but of light.”
“I will greet this day with love in my heart. And how will I do this? Henceforth will I look on all things with love and be born again. I will love the sun for it warms my bones; yet I will love the rain for it cleanses my spirit. I will love the light for it shows me the way; yet I will love the darkness for it shows me the stars. I will welcome happiness as it enlarges my heart; yet I will endure sadness for it opens my soul.”