Shakti Gawain Quotes

To fight evil with activity is like fighting darkness with one's hands. So what you need is light, not fit.

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

Delusion will vanish as the light becomes more and more effulgent, load after load of ignorance will vanish, and then will come a time when all else has disappeared and the sun alone shines.

Seeing the Way is like going into a dark room with a torch; the darkness instantly departs, while the light alone remains. When the Way is attained and the truth is seen, ignorance vanishes and enlightenment abides forever.

Do not fight the darkness, let the light in and the darkness will disappear.

You cannot fight against the ego and win, just as you cannot fight against darkness. The light of consciousness is all that is necessary. You are that light.

Despite what people might think, I'm not interested in being dark all the time. I'm actually searching for some kind of light, and I'm always very happy when I can achieve that.

We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.

You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.

The true division of humanity is between those who live in light and those who live in darkness. Our aim must be to diminish the number of the latter and increase the number of the former. That is why we demand education and knowledge.

Her light shall pierce through the darkness of ignorance and man’s oppression.

We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us thru that darkness to a safe and sane future.

A shadow is never created in darkness. It is born of light. We can be blind to it and blinded by it. Our shadow asks us to look at what we don’t want to see

Filling the conscious mind with ideal conceptions is a characteristic of Western theosophy, but not the confrontation with the Shadow and the world of darkness. 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.

When we walk towards the sun of Truth, all shadows are cast behind us.

Either all lights are turned off or one inner light is missing.

Darkness, that here surrounds our purblind understanding, will vanish at the dawning of eternal day.

Enlightenment is the only real antidote to the world's despair.

Jon passes from Darkness to Light.

In the Lotus Sutra, Buddha says to light up one corner - not the whole world. Just make it clear where you are.

The light came into the darkness, and the darkness did not understand it, but that no longer mattered because the light was now obliteration the darkness.

When our minds are filled with light, there is no room for darkness

The bigger you build the bonfire, the more darkness is revealed.

He may become like a glass filled with a clear light for eyes to see that can.

When we keep claiming the light, we will find ourselves becoming more and more radiant.