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title: "6 Light Humanity Quotes by 6 authors"
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> [Pressed, I would define spirituality as the shadow of light humanity casts as it moves through the darkness of everything that can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-updike/pressed-i-would-define-spirituality-as-the-shadow-of-light-humanity/)

[John Updike](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-updike/)

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> [“Whatever piece of unconscious we take and work through brings light to humanity.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cornwall-seminar-carl-jung-pages-1-5/whatever-piece-of-unconscious-we-take-and-work-through-brings-light/)

[Cornwall Seminar Carl Jung Pages 1-5](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cornwall-seminar-carl-jung-pages-1-5/)

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> [Others are affected by what I am, and say, and do. So that a single act of mine may spread and spread…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-ellery-channing/others-are-affected-by-what-i-am-and-say-and-do-so-that-a-single-act/)

[William Ellery Channing](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-ellery-channing/)

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> [Redirecting sunlight on the earth to the moon gives you enough light so that all of humanity can see.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-lou-jepsen/redirecting-sunlight-on-the-earth-to-the-moon-gives-you-enough-light/)

[Mary Lou Jepsen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-lou-jepsen/)

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> [“The deep human instinct to come together in crisis. To take care of each other. In its best light, it was what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-s-a-corey/the-deep-human-instinct-to-come-together-in-crisis-to-take-care-of/)

[James S.A. Corey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-s-a-corey/)

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> [“It is the responsibility, yet the individual choice, of each of us to use the light we have to dispel the work…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-lewis/it-is-the-responsibility-yet-the-individual-choice-of-each-of-us-to/)

[John Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-lewis/)

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