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Spiritual light rarely comes to those who merely sit in the darkness waiting for someone to flick the switch.
Sep 29, 2025
Recognizing the Savior's spiritual light begins with our willingness to believe.
Samadhi is the highest octave spiritual light. Not the best, but the highest octave.
There will always be a spiritual light that beckons to us, giving us the hope of rescue and relief.
Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace.
...when seeking material light, remember the spiritual light which is indispensable for the soul, and without which it remains in the darkness of the passions, in the darkness of spiritual death. 'I am come as a light into the world,' says the Lord, 'that whosoever believeth on Me, should not abide in darkness' (Jn. 12:46).
The process of gathering spiritual light is the quest of a lifetime.
Since we are dead in sin, a spiritual light and flame in the heart suitable to the nature of the object of our worship, cannot be raised in us without the operation of supernatural grace... such a worship God must have, whereby he is acknowledged to be the true sanctifier and quickener of the soul.
The Light in you is the unalterable truth of who you are. You can deny it and obscure it, but you cannot uncreate it.
David Whitmer wrote: ' Joseph Smith would put the seer stone into a hat, and put his face in the hat, drawing it closely around his face to exclude the light; and in the darkness the spiritual light would shine.'
And I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year: "Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown." And he replied: "Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the hand of God. That shall be to you better than light, and safer than a known way."
Dare to reach out your hand into the darkness, to pull another hand into the light.
Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.
Every truth ever discovered, each new spiritual light that will ever burn bright has already been seeded in our consciousness.
Those who yearn for true spiritual light and knowledge can only find it through the power of the Holy Ghost. The Spirit enlightens and gives understanding of the eternal purpose of life. By the Spirit, Church members know the restored gospel of Jesus Christ is true.
Some feelings are quite untranslatable; no language has yet been found for them. They gleam upon us beautifully through the dim twilight of fancy, and yet when we bring them close to us, and hold them up to the light of reason, lose their beauty all at once, as glow worms which gleam with such a spiritual light in the shadows of evening, when brought in where the candles are lighted, are found to be only worms like so many others.
There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don't you?
There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
What is to give light must endure burning.
Light must come from inside. You cannot ask the darkness to leave; you must turn on the light.
Let me say to you, that many of you will see the time when you will have all the trouble, trial and persecution that you can stand, and plenty of opportunities to show that you are true to God and his work. This Church has before it many close places through which it will have to pass before the work of God is crowned with victory. The time will come when no man nor woman will be able to endure on borrowed light. Each will have to be guided by the light within himself. If you do not have it, how can you stand?
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
You are never alone or helpless. The force that guides the stars guides you too.
Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.
When you possess light within, you see it externally.
Beauty is not in the face; Beauty is a light in the something you do daily.
Contemplation in the age of Auschwitz and Dachau, Solovky and Karaganda is something darker and more fearsome than contemplation in the age of the Church Fathers. For that very reason, the urge to seek a path of spiritual light can be a subtle temptation to sin. It certainly is sin if it means a frank rejection of the burden of our age, an escape into unreality and spiritual illusion, so as not to share the misery of other men.
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.
The story of Ramakrishna is a story of religion in practice. His life enables us to see God face to face.... In this age of skepticism Ramakrishna presents an example of a bright and living faith which gives solace to thousands of men and women who would otherwise have remained without spiritual light.
Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
People are like stained - glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
I adore being with Roberta. I adore being in her spiritual light. I adore being close to her talent and gifts.
Quite a different thing is, if a seeker, dissatisfied by materialism and doctrines, and longing for spiritual support, will ask advice and information of an adept. In such a case the adept is obliged to supply the seeker with spiritual light and insight, according to his mental powers. Then the magician should spare neither time nor pains to communicate his spiritual treasures and lead the seeker to the light.
Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God within us.
Your playing small does not serve the world. Who are you not to be great?
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.
Your playing small doesn't serve the world.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.
You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.
Love must be as much a light as it is a flame.
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.