Jack Kerouac Quotes

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

The wound is the place where the light enters you.

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

The path of the seeker is full of pitfalls and temptations, and the seeker must walk it alone with God. I would recommend that you keep your feet on the ground and your thoughts at lofty heights, so that you may attract only good. Concentrate on giving so that you may open yourself to receiving; concentrate on living according to the light you have so that you may open yourself to more light; get as much light as possible through the inner way.

Jon passes from Darkness to Light.

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

Before you can see the Light, you have to deal with the darkness.

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

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

Never are we nearer the Light than when the darkness is deepest.

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

Purification is but the cleaning of the lamp-glass which hides the Light

Our true nature is like a precious jewel: although it may be temporarily buried in mud, it remains completely brilliant and unaffected. We simply have to uncover it.

If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

I think you have every right to cherry-pick when it comes to moving your spirit and finding peace in God. You take whatever works from wherever you can find it, and you keep moving toward the light.

Do not seek so anxiously to be developed, to subject yourself to many influences to be played on; it is all dissipation. Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights.

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

The dark night of the soul comes just before revelation.

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.

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

In each experience of my life, I have had to step out of one little space of the known light, into a large area of darkness. I had to stand awhile in the darkness, and then gradually God has given me light. But not to linger in. For as soon as that light has felt familiar, then the call has always come to step out ahead again into new darkness.

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

My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was stumbling and groping in social blindness.

You must go into the dark in order to bring forth your light.