This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Pablo Neruda, pen name for Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basoalto
I got lost in the night, without the light of your eyelids, and when the night surrounded me I was born again: I was the owner of my own darkness.
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If we only look within, we will see the Light as if we were seeing our own image in a mirror.
Pablo Neruda, pen name for Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basoalto
This means that we have barely disembarked into life, that we’ve only just now been born, let’s not fill our mouths with so many uncertain names, with so many sad labels, with so many pompous letters, with so much yours and mine, with so much signing of papers. I intend to confuse things, to unite them, make them new-born intermingle them, undress them, until the light of the world has the unity of the ocean, a generous wholeness, a fragrance alive and crackling.
Pāli Canon or Tipitaka or Pāli Tipitaka
First of all there will appear to you, swifter than lightning, the luminous splendor of the colorless light of Emptiness, and that will surround you on all sides. ...Try to submerge yourself in that light, giving up all belief in a separate self, all attachment to your illusory ego.
Thoughts are free and are subject to no rule. On them rests the freedom of man, and they tower above the light of nature.
Paramahansa Yogananda, born Mukunda Lal Ghosh
As you march along this path, every moment of your life is precious. You are here in this world for only a little while; everything is temporary. But association with God is permanent and forever, and so you must not be deluded by the temptations of the world and forget God. God can be known. The Master of the universe, whose light twinkles in the stars, whose life-throb is in every blade of grass — you must find Him. The most important thing in this world is to seek and to find God.
Association | God | Important | Life | Life | Light | Little | World | Association | God |
Paramahansa Yogananda, born Mukunda Lal Ghosh
Kindness is the light that dissolves all walls between souls, families, and nations.
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Paramahansa Yogananda, born Mukunda Lal Ghosh
The sun shines equally on diamond and charcoal, but the former has developed qualities that enable it to reflect the sunlight brilliantly, while the latter is unable to reflect the sunlight. Emulate the diamond in your dealings with people. Brightly reflect the light of God's love.
Paramahansa Yogananda, born Mukunda Lal Ghosh
When modern science will discover how to go deep into the subtle electromagnetic constitution of man, it will be able to correct almost any medical condition in ways that would seem almost miraculous today. In the future, healing will be effected more and more by use of various types of light rays. Light is what we are made of—not gross physical light, but the finer spiritualized light of prana, intelligent life energy. That light is the real essence of everything. This earth is not "earth" as you see it; it is light. But you cannot perceive that until you know the underlying astral world.
Shadow is a color as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
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Paramahansa Yogananda, born Mukunda Lal Ghosh
'World' is a large term, but man must enlarge his allegiance, considering himself in the light of a world citizen... A person who truly feels: 'The world is my homeland; it is my America, my India, my Philippines, my England, my Africa,' will never lack scope for a useful and happy life. His natural local pride will know limitless expansion; he will be in touch with creative universal currents.
Paramahansa Yogananda, born Mukunda Lal Ghosh
Strive ceaselessly; never be impatient. Once the finality is achieved, incarnation of troubles will be over in a second, just as when light is admitted within a room that has been locked for decades, the darkness vanishes instantly.
Paul the Apostle, aka Saint Paul, Paul of Tarsus, originally Saul NULL
Everything is shown up by being exposed to the light, and whatever is exposed to the light itself becomes light.
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Paramahansa Yogananda, born Mukunda Lal Ghosh
Your face is a reflector—your heart is the foundation upon which the reflection is based—your face must be a sermon; your face must be a beacon light for others to follow; your face must be a lighthouse to show shipwrecked souls the way to the harbor of safety; your face must be an altar where peace reigns, where God reigns.
Paul Gaugin, fully Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin
Oh mysterious world of all light, thou hast made a light shine within me, and I have grown in admiration of thy antique beauty, which is the immemorial youth of nature.
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Paul Valéry, fully Ambroise-Paul-Toussaint-Jules Valéry
One should be light like a bird, and not like a feather.
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