Joanna Newsom Quotes

The wound is the place where the light enters you.

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

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

In this world, which is so plainly the antechamber of another, there are no happy men. 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.

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.

The writer catches the changes of his mind on the hop. Growth is exciting; growth is dynamic and alarming. Growth of the soul, growth of the mind.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Your defects are the ways that glory gets manifested ... That's where the Light enters you.

All books will become light in proportion as you find light in them.

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

People press toward the light not in order to see better but in order to shine better.--We are happy to regard the one before whomwe shine as light.

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

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?

There is a light within every soul; it only needs the clouds that overshadow it to be broken for it to beam forth.

There's always another level up. There's always another ascension. More grace, more light, more generosity, more compassion, more to shed, more to grow.

When the lights come on inside of you, everyone in the world can see a little better.

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

He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.

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

The doors of wisdom are never shut.