“It is sure to be dark if you close your eyes.”
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago
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Chinmayananda Saraswati 118
Indian spiritual teacher 1916–1993Related quotes
“Close your bodily eye, so that you may see your picture first with the spiritual eye.”
Variant translation: Close your bodily eye, that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit. Then bring to light what you have seen in the darkness, that its effect may work back, from without to within.
Quoted in The Romantic Imagination: Literature and Art in England and Germany (1996) by Fredrick Berwick and Jürgn Klein, and in "Culture: Caspar D. Friedrich and the Wasteland" by Gjermund E. Jansen in Bits of News (3 March 2005) http://www.bitsofnews.com/content/view/154/42/
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Context: Close your bodily eye, so that you may see your picture first with the spiritual eye. Then bring to the light of day that which you have seen in the darkness so that it may react upon others from the outside inwards. A picture must not be invented but felt. Observe the form exactly, both the smallest and the large and do not separate the small from the large, but rather the trivial from the important.
“To draw, you must close your eyes and sing”
“Closing my eyes doesn’t help. Fire burns brighter in the darkness.”
Katniss (p. 352)
Source: The Hunger Games trilogy, Mockingjay (2010)
“And, in the darkness, David closed his eyes as all that was lost was found again.”
Source: The Book of Lost Things
“You can't think of the global and close your eyes to the details.”
Zelensky’s speech at the UN General Assembly https://www.president.gov.ua/en/news/vistup-prezidenta-ukrayini-volodimira-zelenskogo-na-zagalnih-57477 (25 September 2019)
Kafka on the Shore (2002)
Also attributed to Chester Bennington (singer of Linkin Park)