And yet there is only

And yet there is only

One great thing,

the only thing,

To live to see

in huts and on journeys

The great day that dawns

And the light 

that fills the world.

~Innuit Saying

Moloch

Moloch who entered my soul early! Moloch in whom I am a consciousness without a body! Moloch who frightened me out of my natural ecstasy! Moloch whom I abandon! Wake up in Moloch! Light streaming out of the sky!

~Allen Ginsberg

In order for the light

"In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present."

~Sir Francis Bacon

There are two ways

There are two ways of spreading light ...
To be the candle, or the mirror that reflects it.

~ Edith Wharton

Everything

“Everything that you can see in the world around you presents itself to your eyes only as an arrangement of patches of different colors.”

John Ruskin

Colours are

“Colours are light's suffering and joy.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The range in brightness

“The range in brightness from the purple glow [of the sunset] to the dark sky above is too great for most films, and naturally it is beyond the range of printed pictures.”

James Elkins

There can be no

There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotions.

~Carl Jung

As far as

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

~Carl Jung

Faith is a light

Faith is a light of such supreme brilliance that it dazzles the mind and darkens all its visions of other realities, but in the end when we become used to the new light, we gain a new view of all reality transfigured and elevated in the light itself.

~Thomas Merton

If the whole universe

If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.

~C.S. Lewis

When there is

When there is light in the soul, there is beauty in the person;
When there is beauty in the person, there is harmony in the home;
When there is harmony in the home, there is honour in the nation;
When there is honour in the nation, there is peace in the world.

~Old Chinese Proverb

Light is the first

Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.

—RALPH WALDO EMERSON

For the rest of my life

For the rest of my life I will reflect on what light is.
—~EINSTEIN

I Thy God

I Thy God am the Light and the Mind which were before substance was divided from Spirit and darkness from Light.
—~VOLTAIRE

Before all

Before all the wondrous shows of the widespread space around him, what living, sentient thing loves not the all-joyous light -- with its colors, its rays and undulations, its gentle omnipresence in the form of the wakening Day.

~NOVALIS

Nature

Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night,
God said, “Let Newton be" and all was light.

— ALEXANDER POPE

The fairy poet

The fairy poet takes a sheet
Of moonbeam, silver white;
His ink is dew from daisies sweet,
His pen a point of light.

~Joyce Kilmer

When there is light

When there is light in the soul, there is beauty in the person;
When there is beauty in the person, there is harmony in the home;
When there is harmony in the home, there is honour in the nation;
When there is honour in the nation, there is peace in the world.

~Old Chinese Proverb

Duct tape

Duct tape is like ‘The Force’. It has a light side and a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

~unknown