For the rest of my life
I want to reflect on what light is.
-Albert Einstein

I keep the subject constantly before me
and wait till the first dawnings open slowly,
little by little, into a full and clear light.
-Isaac Newton

What is light?
That from which, through which, in which
may be found all things, out of which all things come.
Thus the first of everything which may be visible
in earth, in heaven, and in space is that of Light, is that Light.
-Edgar Cayce

We are actually born out of light, you might say.
I believe light is the maker of all material.
Material is spent light.
-Louis I. Khan

The universe seen from within is light;
seen from without, by spiritual perception, it is thought.
-Rudolf Steiner

Light is the essence
of the igneous phenomenon.
-Novalis

Light is the genius of the fire process.
Light makes fire.
-Novalis

All light is one
but colors a thousandfold.
-Fakhr-al-Din Iraqi

Light has no color.
Its rays shine through the glass
and only then do hues and tints appear.
-Fakhr-al-Din Iraqi

Light is the great priestess of landscape.
-John O'Donohue

Light, God's eldest daughter,
is a principal beauty in a building.
-Thomas Fuller

Light is the universal language.
-George Russell

Light is colder
when parts of it are missing.
-Olli Jalonen

The fireflies' light.
How easily it goes on
How easily it goes out again
-Chine-Jo

The longing for light
is a longing for consciousness.
-Carl Jung

When did you last keep a vigil
Beseeching
Light?
-Daniel Ladinsky

Only the incomprehensible
gives any light.
-Saul  Bellow

Light
Light
The visible reminder of
Invisible Light.
-T. S. Eliot

Someday perhaps the inner light
will shine forth from us,
and then we will need no other light.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

All light is available light.
-Paul Strand

Not knowing when the dawn will come,
I open every door.
-Emily Dickinson

Pay attention to the cracks,
because that's where the light gets in.
-Leonard Cohen

Was it light?
Was it light within?
Was it light within light?
-Theodore Roethke

Every man can receive this light,
in the color that his own prism refracts.
-Isha Schwaller de Lubicz

Always the laws of light are the same,
but the modes and degrees of seeing vary.
-Henry David Thoreau

What a light is here
for those who can bear or love the light.
-William Law

I am sure - as sure as anyone can be of anything -
that in the end there will be light,
an all-pervading insight illuminating the immense structure of the cosmos,
revealing the rightful place and purpose of man.
-Andreas Feininger

In the light,
there are no mysteries, no hidden things
everything is revealed;
only in darkness are thing concealed.
-Anonymous

In the light there are no secret things.
The sun reveals all hidden truth.
There are no mysteries in God.
-The Aquarian Gospel

Turn on sufficient light
and all mystery disappears.
-Christian Larson

When you flip the switch in that attic,
it doesn't matter whether its been dark
for ten minutes, ten years or ten decades.
-Sharon Salzberg

We have Light hidden in us,
and we have to remove all the covers
that have not permitted the Light to truly shine.
-Sivananda Radha

Light does not just descend on us.
The Light of knowledge does not just descend on us.
We have to want this Light so badly,
so intensely, so much with our entire being,
that we become a magnet and draw this Light to ourselves.
-Sivananda Radha

At high noon
or in the dark moonless night
there is a light.
Can you see it?
-Shunryu Suzuki

For through your own heart
comes the one light
which can illuminate life
and make it clear to your eyes.
-Mable Collins

He who has the "third eye" or, speaking more clearly,
who is capable of transferring his vision
from the grossly objective on to the purely inner ground,
that one shall see light within the darkness,
and in the seeming emptiness discern the universe.
-Helena P. Blavatsky

Learn to contemplate.
Contemplate Glory.
There will be a Light.
Contemplate Truth until it
burns your eyes out.
-Robert Frost