T. S. Eliot Quotes

The light which shines in the eye is really the light of the heart.. The light which fills the heart is the light of God, which is pure and separate from the light of intellect and sense.

Light, the visible reminder of Invisible Light.

Light Light The visible reminder of Invisible Light.

You receive the light through what you read, through what you hear in meditation, or through some spiritual practice.

Don't think that some tomorrow you'll see God's Light. You see it now or err in darkest night.

God's first creature, which was light.

My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.

In certain strains of Judaism, there's a profound passion for the ineffable. Contemplation of God is meant to be forever elusive, because, you know, our tiny minds can't possibly comprehend Him. If we find ourselves comprehending Him, then we can be sure we're off track.

There are very few religious experiences that aren't explained using the vocabulary of light.

The Divine Light is always in man, presenting itself to the senses and to the comprehension, but man rejects it.

I have risen to a body not yet born, existing like a light around a body through which the body moves like a sliding moon.

Behold thine immortal Self resurrected with Christ in the light of illumination, present in every soul, every flower, every atom!

The more we incline our hearts and minds toward God, the more heavenly light distills upon our souls. Gradually, things that before seemed hazy, dark, and remote become clear, bright and familiar with us.

One can see light above the head; that indicates a consciousness outside the body. But that itself is not the Truth-Consciousness or Vijnana. But much light descending from there illumines this consciousness.

With all your science can you tell me how it is, and when it is, that light comes into the soul?

Who knows but on their sleep may rise Such light as never heaven let through To lighten earth from Paradise?

When we try to focus our thought upon One who is pure uncreated being we may see nothing at all, for He dwelleth in light that no man can approach unto. Only by faith and love are we able to glimpse Him as He passes by our shelter in the cleft of the rock.

The soul of man, left to its own natural level, is a potentially lucid crystal left in darkness. It is perfect in its own nature, but it lacks something that it can only receive from outside and above itself. But when the light shines in it, it becomes in a manner transformed into light and seems to lose its nature in the splendor of a higher nature, the nature of the light that is in it.

The sacred influence of light appears.

We thank Him less by words than by the serene happiness of silent acceptance. It is our emptiness in the presence of His reality, our silence in the presence of His infinitely rich silence, our joy in the bosom of the serene darkness in which His light holds us absorbed, it is all this that praises Him.

I...am an evolved being who deals solely with the source of light...in all of us in our own minds. No middleman required.

I entered (into my inward self) and beheld with the eye of my soul...the Light Unchangeable.

There is not a single darkness if you life that God cannot bring His light upon.

Deep in our Hearts, the Light of Heaven is shining.