[T]he experience of mystery comes not from expecting it but through yielding all your programs, because your programs are based on fear and desire. Drop them and the radiance comes. (16)
The radiance in some places is so great as to be fairly dazzling. . . every crystal, every flower a window opening into heaven, a mirror reflecting the Creator.
All the rarest hues of human life take radiance and are rainbowed out in tears.
Beauty is a radiance that orginates from within.
Our failure to see and access the pure joy and radiance of life is owning to a lack of awareness. In any situation there is beauty. Even at the moment of one's death there is beauty.
Boys, Laila came to see, treated friendship the way they treated the sun: its existence undisputed; its radiance best enjoyed, not beheld directly.
The perfect view of existence comes from an unclouded, uncluttered life and mind whereby the radiance of perfect attention of the mind of the universe floods us at every moment. This is Buddhism. This is being on the path.
What is a cozy home? Where you enter and you feel the radiance of your divine self.
Beauty is an internal light, a spiritual radiance that all women have, but most women hide - unconsciously denying its existence. What we do not claim, remains invisible.
We all find joy and radiance and a reason to move on even in the most dire of circumstances. Even in chaos and madness, theres still a beauty that comes from just the vibrancy of another human spirit.
When you no longer are compelled by desire and fear. . . when you have seen the radiance in eternity from all forms of time. . . when you follow your bliss. . . doors will open where you would not have thought there were doors. . . and the world will step in and help.
The mind's eye is perhaps no better fitted for the full radiance of truth, than is the body's for that of the sun.
One who is patient glows with an inner radiance.
Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.
Victory always starts in the head. It's a state of mind. It then spreads with such radiance and such affirmations that destiny can do nothing but obey.
It is very difficult to pass from pleasure to work. Accordingly more poems have been swallowed up by sorrow than ever happiness caused to blaze forth in unparalleled radiance.
What is the glory of God? It is who God is. It is the essence of His nature; the weight of His importance; the radiance of His splendor; the demonstration of His power; the atmosphere of His presence.
Worship is a way of gladly reflecting back to God the radiance of His worth.
But beauty itself is not given to us by anyone; it is a power we have within us from the gate, a radiance inside us.
I simply define glory as the beauty of God unveiled. Glory is the resplendent radiance of His power and His personality. Glory is all of God that makes God God, and shows Him to be worthy of our praise and our boasting and our trust and our hope and our confidence and our joy.
