Mortimer Adler Quotes

The wound is the place where the light enters you.

We deserve to know light. And grow evermore lighter and lighter.

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

Spiritual light rarely comes to those who merely sit in the darkness waiting for someone to flick the switch.

Taking back our light from those we’ve projected it onto opens the door to an unimaginable future.

If a man is to shed the light of the sun upon other men, he must first of all have it within himself.

Transforming yourself is a means of giving light to the whole world.

Live according to your highest light and more light will be given.

Meditation is the way to individuality. It makes you a light unto yourself.

Jon passes from Darkness to Light.

Your life is something opaque, not transparent, as long as you look at it in an ordinary human way. But if you hold it up against the light of God's goodness, it shines and turns transparent, radiant and bright. And then you ask yourself in amazement: Is this really my own life I see before me?

The process of gathering spiritual light is the quest of a lifetime.

God dropped a spark down into everyone, And if we find and fan it to a blaze, It'll spring up and glow, like--like the sun, And light the wandering out of stony ways.

I borrowed his brightness and used it to see my way, and then gradually, from the habit of looking at the world as he illuminated it, the light in my own mind rekindled.

I'm always pursuing knowledge; I'm a seeker of spiritual equilibrium - and music is a big part of that.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Education is the movement from darkness to light.

I'm hungry for knowledge. The whole thing is to learn every day, to get brighter and brighter. That's what this world is about. You look at someone like Gandhi, and he glowed. Martin Luther King glowed. Muhammad Ali glows. I think that's from being bright all the time, and trying to be brighter.

And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.

When you've seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind is waiting there.

As I lived up to the highest light I had, higher and higher light came to me.

I love philosophy and spirituality and leveling-up books and science books.

It's important to be enlightened.

Nobody brainwashed me with God in my head or anything. I just saw this new reality, and I felt like I've been blinded, and I finally took the blindfolds off.

'Moonlight' has changed my life externally but also internally... spiritually as well.