Bodies have their own light which they consume to live: they burn, they are not lit from outside.
—Egon Schiele (via frenchtwist)
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Posts tagged light:
I had not known, before us, that every vein in my body was capable of carrying light, like a river seen from a train makes a channel of sky etch itself deep into a landscape. I had not really known I could be so much more than myself; I had not known another body could do this to mine.
—Ali Smith (via beryl-azure)
On the death of any living creature the spirit returns to the spiritual world, the body to the bodily world. In this however only the bodies are subject to change. The spiritual world is one single spirit who stands like unto a light behind the bodily world and who, when any single creature comes into being, shines through it as through a window. According to the kind and size of the window less or more light enters the world. The light itself however remains unchanged.
—Aziz Nasafi, a 13th century Islamic Persian mystic quoted in What is Life? by Erwin Schrödinger in the chapter “The Arithmetical Paradox: The oneness of mind.” Pilfered from the excellent blog on Buddhism and Practice, 108ZenBooks. (via crashinglybeautiful)
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You say, it’s dark. And in truth, I did place a cloud before your sun. But do you not see how the edges of the cloud are already glowing and turning light?
—-Friedrich Nietzsche (via bardsandsages)
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A particle of light in the sun’s center—so densely Labyrinthine is the star—takes
1,000,000 years to reach the sun’s surface.
8 minutes from the sun’s surface to my eye.
The eye is made of the light by which it sees. Every eye, and all the world which
enters through the pin-hole of the eye, is 1,000,000 years and 8 minutes old.
—Dan Beachy-Quick, from “First, section 1” in This Nest, Swift Passerine: A Poem (Tupelo Press, 2009)
Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them.
—Truman Capote (via amandaonwriting)
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This simple and radical truth was known to the alchemists:
It is the light hidden in matter that will redeem the world.
—*From Anima Mundi: Awakening the Soul of the World; Published in Sufi Journal, Issue 67, Autumn 2005 by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee (via montanablackart)
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.
—Elisabeth Kubler-Ross (via montanablackart)
“Throw away the light, the definitions, and say what you see in the dark.”
—Wallace Stevens
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