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A lighthouse is not interested in who gets its light! It just gives it without thinking! Giving light is its nature!
Sep 29, 2025
We should be shining lamps, giving light to all around us.
Transforming yourself is a means of giving light to the whole world.
When you are the Spirit, you are like a brilliant diamond, which is giving light by itself.
It often happens that those who spend their time giving light to others, remain in darkness themselves.
The way of fortune is like the milky way in the sky; which is a meeting, or knot, of a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together : so are there a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.
Correcting oneself is correcting the whole world. The Sun is simply bright. It does not correct anyone. Because it shines, the whole world is full of light. Transforming yourself is a means of giving light to the whole world.
The meditation I am talking about is not a meditation on something. If you light a lamp and remove all the objects surrounding it, the lamp will still go on giving light. In the same way, if you remove all objects from your consciousness, all thoughts, all imagination, what will happen? – only consciousness will remain.
As far as i am concerned, i am in the knowledge that death can never extinguish the torch which i have lit in Ghana and Africa. Long after i am dead and gone, the light will continue to burn and be borne aloft, giving light and guidance to all people
Moon, worn thin to the width of a quill,/ In the dawn clouds flying,/ How good to go, light into light, and still/ Giving light, dying.
Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.
What is to give light must endure burning.
You go to pray; to become a bonfire, a living flame, giving light and heat.
You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
Ring the bells that still can ring.
There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.
Conflicts create the fire of affects and emotions; and like every fire it has two aspects: that of burning and that of giving light.
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone and as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give others permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
We can do no great things-only small things with great love.
This morning take a few minutes to reflect on how you give of yourself to the world. Often we get caught up in the frenzy of buying and giving things. Look at the ways you give appreciation, friendship, energy, time, love, and affection, and give of your own special talents and abilities throughout the year. Acknowledge yourself for having enriched the lives of others. Spend some time loving yourself for the giving light that you are.
My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light!
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