The Light of Truth
One who is rich in the enlightenment will not indulge in any sinful action, since his conscience is guided by the intellect fully illumined with Truth.
Acarangasutra
When the light of Atman Drives out our darkness That light shines forth from us, A sun in splendor, The revealed Brahman.
Krishna
And God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light.
The Book of Genesis
The truly wise man, considering both sides of the question without partiality, sees them both in the light of Tao.
Chuang Tzu
I am the light of the world; he who follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.
Jesus of Nazareth
Light upon Light! God guides whom He will to His Light: God sets forth parables for men, and God knows all things.
The Qur'an
Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.
The Book of Psalms
In all that is in this world dwell holy sparks, no thing is empty of them.
Israel Baal Shem Tov
You will attain oneness and blessedness in your soul’s spark, which time and place never touched.
Meister Eckhart
The truth is always accessible to a man. It can’t be otherwise, because a man’s soul is a divine spark, the truth itself.
Leo N. Tolstoy
We know that eternity preceded us and infinity will come after us, yet we know also that this day, this moment, this place, this circumstance is full of the light of infinite radiance, whose proof is the mere fact that we are here to experience it.
Jonathan Sacks
I have always seen this light, in my spirit and not with external eyes, and I name it ‘the cloud of the living light.’ But sometimes I behold within this light another light which I name ‘the living light itself.’
Hildegard of Bingen
The soul is a burning desire to breathe in this world of light and never to lose it—to remain children of light.
Albert Schweitzer
As ours is a way of light… the work we do is to help others become conscious that they are beings of light.
Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan
Faith is composed of the heart’s intention. Light comes through faith.
Rig Veda
For with you is the fountain of life; in your light we see light.
David
As sight is in the body, so is reason in the soul.
Aristotle
Your eye is the lamp of your body; when your eye is sound, your whole body is full of light…
Saint Luke
When the light comes from above, it enlightens my heart and I can see…
Black Elk [Heȟáka Sápa]
Adam, though made of earth, was given knowledge by God, a knowledge like light ― that pierced the Seven Heavens.
Jalaluddin Mevlana Rumi
There is no light in heaven other than spiritual light, which is the light of Wisdom.
Emanuel Swedenborg
Darkness cannot put out darkness. Only light can do that.
Martin Luther King Jr.
For though my faith is not yours and your faith is not mine, if we each are free to light our own flame, together we can banish some of the darkness of the world.
Jonathan Sacks