Judith Lambert > Judith's Quotes

“The black moment is the moment when the real message of transformation is going to come. At the darkest moment comes the light.”
― Joseph Campbell

“As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

“Religion is a candle inside a multicolored lantern. Everyone looks through a different color, but the candle is always there.”
― Mohammed Naguib

“As a child I received instruction in both the Bible and in the Talmud. I am a Jew, but I am enthralled by the luminous figure of the Nazarene.”
― Albert Einstein

“Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves and every part of your body be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.”
― Swami Vivekananda, Ved�nta Philosophy: Lectures on Jn�na Yoga

“There is a light that shines beyond all things on earth, beyond us all, beyond the heavens, beyond the highest, the very highest heavens. This is the light that shines in your heart.”
― Chandogya Upanishad

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

“There's too much darkness in the world. Everywhere you turn someone is trying' to tear someone down in some way. Everywhere you go, there's a feeling of inadequacy, or a feeling that you're not good enough. I want to bring a certain light to the world.”
― Alicia Keys

“When there's light shining on a tree, that tree takes on a different meaning. If there's no light at all it just looks dead. If you look at light as godly meaning, there world comes alive in a certain way.”
― Matisyahu

“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”
― Albert Einstein

“In a profound sense every man has two halves to his being; he is not one person so much as two persons trying to act in unison. I believe that in the heart of every human being there is something which I can only describe as a child of darkness who is equal and complementary to the more obvious child of light.”
― Laurens van der Post

“An age is called Dark, not because the light fails to shine but because people refuse to see it.”
― James Michener

“How is one to live a moral and compassionate existence when one finds darkness not only in one's culture but in oneself? There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light.”
― Barry Lopez

“A light there is in the beyond which makes the Creator visible to the creature, who only in beholding Him finds peace.”
― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso

“Someday perhaps the inner light will shine forth from us and then we'll need no other light.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“...and he looked and behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed. And Moses said, "I will now turn aside, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt.”
― Moses at the Burning Bush

“May the father live, in his aspect of the light, which is in the sun-disk.”
― Akhenaten, King of Egypt