“If you look at the darkness, not light, every day, your life will be filled with darkness.”

“Angels, living light most glorious!
Beneath the Godhead in burning desire
in the darkness and mystery of creation
you look on the eye of your God
never taking your fill:
What glorious pleasures take shape within you!”

“There's always going to be bad stuff out there. But here's the amazing thing -- light trumps darkness, every time. You stick a candle into the dark, but you can't stick the dark into the light.”

“There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.”

“Why are the heavens not filled with light? Why is the universe plunged into darkness?”

“Life is the lust of a lamp for the light that is dark till the dawn of the day that we die.”

“Turn away. From the darkness, the madness, the pain. Open your eyes and look at the light.”

“You exist: without name, without form. You cannot see the light of day; you cannot see the dark. You sold the green earth and the sun and stars to save yourself. But you have no self. All that which you sold, that is yourself. You have given everything for nothing. And so now you seek to draw the world to you, all that light and life you lost, to fill up your nothingness. But it cannot be filled. Not all the songs of earth, not all the stars of heaven, could fill your emptiness.”

“Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.”

“Life is a winking light in the darkness.”