Do you desire to look on the face of Good?
Then look around at the whole universe,
full of the light of the sun.
Look at the light of the material world,
full of all forms in constant movement;
take away the matter, leave the rest.
You have the soul, an incorporeal light
that takes all shapes and is full of change.
Once again, take from this the changeability,
and now you have reached
the intelligence of the angels,
the incorporeal light,
taking all shapes but unchanging.
Take away from this that diversity
by which any form differs from the light,
and which is infused into the light from elsewhere,
and then the essence of the light
and of each form is the same;
the light gives form to itself
and through its own forms
gives form to everything.
-Marsilo Ficino
Life and Light
Because the Father of all things consists of Life and Light,
whereof man is made.
If, therefore, a man shall learn and understand
the nature of Life and Light,
then he shall pass into Life and Light.
-Hermes Trismegistus
whereof man is made.
If, therefore, a man shall learn and understand
the nature of Life and Light,
then he shall pass into Life and Light.
-Hermes Trismegistus
Creatures of Light
You are creatures of light.
From light you have come
to light you shall go
and surrounding you through every step
is the light of your Infinite Being.
-Richard Bach
From light you have come
to light you shall go
and surrounding you through every step
is the light of your Infinite Being.
-Richard Bach
Made of Light
You are made of light,
you can nourish yourself with light,
and you will return to light.
-Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov
you can nourish yourself with light,
and you will return to light.
-Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov
Rise to the Great Light
The light, o man is the great light
Shining through the shadow of flesh,
free must thou rise from the darkness
before thou are one with the light.
-The Emerald Tablets of Thoth
Shining through the shadow of flesh,
free must thou rise from the darkness
before thou are one with the light.
-The Emerald Tablets of Thoth
If You Wish to Break Through
If you wish to break through
the vault of the Universe,
you may do so.
Make yourself to grow
to a greatness beyond measure;
by a bound free yourself from the body.
Raise yourself above all time;
become Eternity.
-Hermes Trismegistus
the vault of the Universe,
you may do so.
Make yourself to grow
to a greatness beyond measure;
by a bound free yourself from the body.
Raise yourself above all time;
become Eternity.
-Hermes Trismegistus
Pass to the Body of Light
In order to pass from consciousness of the magnetic field to the body of light,
one has to be aware of burning with a bright flame
that one has the feeling of being incandescent, transparent, a crystal.
One has the feeling of being porous as a magnetic field,
crystalline or translucent as an aura.
The body of light extends.
There's no skin on it, no edges, no frontier.
It exudes rays.
It radiates.
-Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan
one has to be aware of burning with a bright flame
that one has the feeling of being incandescent, transparent, a crystal.
One has the feeling of being porous as a magnetic field,
crystalline or translucent as an aura.
The body of light extends.
There's no skin on it, no edges, no frontier.
It exudes rays.
It radiates.
-Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan
Breathe in the Light
Close your eyes
and see yourself surrounded by light
or immersed in a luminous substance -
a sea of consciousness.
Then breathe in that light.
Feel the luminous substance filling your body
and making it luminous also.
-Eckhart Tolle
and see yourself surrounded by light
or immersed in a luminous substance -
a sea of consciousness.
Then breathe in that light.
Feel the luminous substance filling your body
and making it luminous also.
-Eckhart Tolle
The World Will Be Unmasked
You do not need to leave your room.
Remain sitting at your table, and listen.
Do not even listen, simply wait.
Do not even wait, be quite still and solitary.
The world will freely offer itself to you
to be unmasked, it has no choice,
it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
-Franz Kafka
Remain sitting at your table, and listen.
Do not even listen, simply wait.
Do not even wait, be quite still and solitary.
The world will freely offer itself to you
to be unmasked, it has no choice,
it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
-Franz Kafka
When All is Sacred
When each day
is sacred
when each hour
is sacred
when each instant
is sacred
earth and you
space and you
bearing the sacred
through time
you'll reach
the fields of light
-Guillevic
is sacred
when each hour
is sacred
when each instant
is sacred
earth and you
space and you
bearing the sacred
through time
you'll reach
the fields of light
-Guillevic
Open Your Mind to the Influx
Keep the eye single upon the light
of the great eternal sun,
and open your mind
to the endless influx of that light.
-Christian Larson
of the great eternal sun,
and open your mind
to the endless influx of that light.
-Christian Larson
Rising to the Light
Higher and higher
Out of clouds and night,
Nearer yet and nearer
Rising to the light -
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Out of clouds and night,
Nearer yet and nearer
Rising to the light -
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Knowledge of the Light
Following the thought with his heart
he reached the knowledge of the light.
-Rig Veda
he reached the knowledge of the light.
-Rig Veda
Suddenly Flooded With LIght
It can happen suddenly, without any prior warning,
you feel flooded with light;
all of a sudden your consciousness
experiences a great upward shift
to the level of superconsciousness,
and you are dazzled by the vastness and beauty
in which your Higher Self dwells.
-Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov
you feel flooded with light;
all of a sudden your consciousness
experiences a great upward shift
to the level of superconsciousness,
and you are dazzled by the vastness and beauty
in which your Higher Self dwells.
-Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov
Essence Refracting Itself
I beheld my essence. What I saw
Was like the very light of the eye itself:
How wonderful that a single Essence should
Refract itself like a light, a single source
Into a million essences and hues.
-Shah Nematollah Vali
Was like the very light of the eye itself:
How wonderful that a single Essence should
Refract itself like a light, a single source
Into a million essences and hues.
-Shah Nematollah Vali
Swimming in Pure Ether
It seemed to me that I was swimming in pure ether
and being engulfed by the universal ocean.
But the inner joy in which I was swimming
was a thousand times more infinite,
more luminous and more incommensurable
than the atmosphere with which I was thus mingled.
-Alphonse de Lamartine
and being engulfed by the universal ocean.
But the inner joy in which I was swimming
was a thousand times more infinite,
more luminous and more incommensurable
than the atmosphere with which I was thus mingled.
-Alphonse de Lamartine
Enter Into Yourself
I entered into the innermost part of myself...
and I saw with the eye of my soul, such as it was,
above the same eye of my soul, above my mind,
the light unchangeable.
-Saint Augustine
and I saw with the eye of my soul, such as it was,
above the same eye of my soul, above my mind,
the light unchangeable.
-Saint Augustine
Another Light
I saw on earth another light
than that which lit my eye
Come forth as from my soul within,
and from a higher sky.
-Very Jones
than that which lit my eye
Come forth as from my soul within,
and from a higher sky.
-Very Jones
Pure Endless Light
I saw eternity the other night
Like a great ring of pure and endless light
All calm, as it was bright.
-Henry Vaughn
Like a great ring of pure and endless light
All calm, as it was bright.
-Henry Vaughn
Light Reveals Everything
Again the light blazes for me.
Again I see the light clearly.
Again it opens the skies;
again it drives away the night.
Again it reveals everything.
-Symeon the New Theologian
Again I see the light clearly.
Again it opens the skies;
again it drives away the night.
Again it reveals everything.
-Symeon the New Theologian
Full Answers
I knew not the light
and I thought there was no sure truth in life;
but when I perceived
that only light allows me to live,
I sought to find the source of that light.
And when I reached this source of light
I was dazzled by the splendor,
and I found there full answers
to my questions of the lives of myself and others.
-Leo Tolstoy
and I thought there was no sure truth in life;
but when I perceived
that only light allows me to live,
I sought to find the source of that light.
And when I reached this source of light
I was dazzled by the splendor,
and I found there full answers
to my questions of the lives of myself and others.
-Leo Tolstoy
In Communion With Reality
Lying there, in that golden August light
I knew, or felt, or beheld,
a union deeper than knowledge,
deeper than sense,
deeper than vision.
Light streamed through me,
after anguish,
and for one instant of awareness,
if but for that one instant,
I felt pure ecstasy.
In a single blinding flash of illumination,
I knew blessedness.
I was part of the spirit that moved
in the light and the wind and the grass.
I was - or felt I was - in communion with reality,
with ultimate being.
-Ellen Glasgow
I knew, or felt, or beheld,
a union deeper than knowledge,
deeper than sense,
deeper than vision.
Light streamed through me,
after anguish,
and for one instant of awareness,
if but for that one instant,
I felt pure ecstasy.
In a single blinding flash of illumination,
I knew blessedness.
I was part of the spirit that moved
in the light and the wind and the grass.
I was - or felt I was - in communion with reality,
with ultimate being.
-Ellen Glasgow
True Ecstasy
True ecstasy is the conjunction of light with light,
when the soul of man meets the Divine Light.
-Abdu'l-Qadir Al-Gilani
when the soul of man meets the Divine Light.
-Abdu'l-Qadir Al-Gilani
The Light Was I
I saw myself present in the world of light...
I saw that this absolute light was I.
Whatever fills the universe was I;
Other than myself there is nothing.
The eternal being, the demiurge of the universe is I.
Everything is subsistent in me.
-Shamsoddin Lahiji
I saw that this absolute light was I.
Whatever fills the universe was I;
Other than myself there is nothing.
The eternal being, the demiurge of the universe is I.
Everything is subsistent in me.
-Shamsoddin Lahiji
The Same Consciousness
One day this light will explode, and you will see it everywhere.
You will see the entire universe existing within it.
The divine light of Consciousness will begin to fill your eyes,
and then wherever you look you will see it.
You will see its radiance in people, in trees,
in rocks, and in buildings.
You will see the same consciousness rising and falling
in every wave of thought and feeling
that passes through your mind;
wherever your mind goes
you will find your own inner Consciousness,
the creator of the world.
You will see that the entire universe
is contained within your own Self.
You will know that everything
- all the infinite modifications of the world -
is nothing but your own play.
You will realize that it is you
who are being reflected everywhere
and that it is your own reflection
that passes before you all the time.
-Muktananda
You will see the entire universe existing within it.
The divine light of Consciousness will begin to fill your eyes,
and then wherever you look you will see it.
You will see its radiance in people, in trees,
in rocks, and in buildings.
You will see the same consciousness rising and falling
in every wave of thought and feeling
that passes through your mind;
wherever your mind goes
you will find your own inner Consciousness,
the creator of the world.
You will see that the entire universe
is contained within your own Self.
You will know that everything
- all the infinite modifications of the world -
is nothing but your own play.
You will realize that it is you
who are being reflected everywhere
and that it is your own reflection
that passes before you all the time.
-Muktananda
The Earth is a Spark of My Light
The whole earth is but one of my eyes,
But a spark of my illuminating light;
The whole earth is in this tiny spark within me.
-Po Shan
But a spark of my illuminating light;
The whole earth is in this tiny spark within me.
-Po Shan
A Mirror Full of Lights
And this appears that the entire world
is like a single mirror full of lights
presenting the divine wisdom,
or as charcoal emitting light.
-Saint Bonaventure
is like a single mirror full of lights
presenting the divine wisdom,
or as charcoal emitting light.
-Saint Bonaventure
Saw in a Miraculous New Light
I saw no new thing,
but I saw all the usual things
in a miraculous new light -
in what I believe is their true light.
I saw for the first time
how wildly beautiful and joyous,
beyond any words of mine to describe,
is the whole of life.
Every human being moving across that porch,
every sparrow that flew,
every branch tossing in the wind,
was caught in and was part of
the whole mad ecstasy of loveliness,
of joy, or importance, of intoxication of life.
-Margaret Prescott Montague
but I saw all the usual things
in a miraculous new light -
in what I believe is their true light.
I saw for the first time
how wildly beautiful and joyous,
beyond any words of mine to describe,
is the whole of life.
Every human being moving across that porch,
every sparrow that flew,
every branch tossing in the wind,
was caught in and was part of
the whole mad ecstasy of loveliness,
of joy, or importance, of intoxication of life.
-Margaret Prescott Montague
Boundless Light
Thine own consciousness,
shining void and inseparable
from the great body of radiance
hath no birth nor death,
and is immutable boundless light.
-Tibetan Book of the Dead
shining void and inseparable
from the great body of radiance
hath no birth nor death,
and is immutable boundless light.
-Tibetan Book of the Dead
Bathed in Light
I was no longer myself,
or to be more accurate,
no longer knew myself to be,
a small point of awareness confined to a body,
but instead was a vast circle of consciousness
in which the body was but a point, bathed in light
and in a state of exultation and happiness
impossible to describe.
-Gopi Krishna
or to be more accurate,
no longer knew myself to be,
a small point of awareness confined to a body,
but instead was a vast circle of consciousness
in which the body was but a point, bathed in light
and in a state of exultation and happiness
impossible to describe.
-Gopi Krishna
Light Like a Sun
He saw no limit whatever to the light
that appeared to him and shone around him,
but it was like a sun infinitely brighter and vaster than the universe;
and in the midst of this sun he himself stood,
having become nothing but eye.
-Saint Gregory of Palamas
that appeared to him and shone around him,
but it was like a sun infinitely brighter and vaster than the universe;
and in the midst of this sun he himself stood,
having become nothing but eye.
-Saint Gregory of Palamas
Heavenly Men Beaming Bright
My Eyes more & more
Like a Sea without Shore
Continue Expanding,
The Heavens commanding,
Till the Jewels of Light,
Heavenly Men beaming Bright,
Appear'd as One Man
-William Blake
Like a Sea without Shore
Continue Expanding,
The Heavens commanding,
Till the Jewels of Light,
Heavenly Men beaming Bright,
Appear'd as One Man
-William Blake
The Radiance Substance
I saw, above a thousand thousand lights,
One Sun that lit them all, as our own Sun
Lights all the bodies we see in Heaven's heights;
And through that living light I saw revealed
The Radiant Substance, blazing forth so bright
My vision dazzled and my senses reeled.
-Dante Alighieri
One Sun that lit them all, as our own Sun
Lights all the bodies we see in Heaven's heights;
And through that living light I saw revealed
The Radiant Substance, blazing forth so bright
My vision dazzled and my senses reeled.
-Dante Alighieri
Within the Field of Light
Within that Field of Light, the Essential God-Consciousness
appears as an All-Consuming Light.
Within that, there are Suns,
and each Sun has a brightness according to Its degree of Internal Realization
of the Absolute Light Condition.
-Imre Vallyon
appears as an All-Consuming Light.
Within that, there are Suns,
and each Sun has a brightness according to Its degree of Internal Realization
of the Absolute Light Condition.
-Imre Vallyon
Beings of Shining Splendor
Every Spirit is like a shining Sun,
and those blazing Suns intermingle
in this Essential Ocean of Light.
The is the Kingdom of God.
Beings of greater Realization
have a greater Luminosity.
The greater the Beings,
the greater the Shining Splendor
they emanate.
-Imre Vallyon
and those blazing Suns intermingle
in this Essential Ocean of Light.
The is the Kingdom of God.
Beings of greater Realization
have a greater Luminosity.
The greater the Beings,
the greater the Shining Splendor
they emanate.
-Imre Vallyon
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