Communion Quote by Sivaya Subramuniyaswami

By keeping the Commandments the soul is purified and the mind too is enlightened, and starts to function as nature intended it to. 'The…

— Dorotheus of Gaza

The light by which we see in this world comes out from the soul of the observer. Wherever any noble sentiment dwelt, it made…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Deep within the self is the Light of God. It radiates throughout the expanse of His creation. Through the Guru's teachings, the darkness of…

— Guru Amar Das

With all your science can you tell me how it is, and when it is, that light comes into the soul?

— Henry David Thoreau

The soul is content to stay imprisoned in the human body... for through the eyes all the various things of nature are represented to…

— Leonardo da Vinci

When the mind loses its density, you become translucent, like the flower. Spirit - the formless - shines through you into the world.

— Eckhart Tolle

We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

When a sunbeam falls on a transparent substance, the substance itself becomes brilliant, and radiates light from itself. So too Spirit bearing souls, illumined…

— Saint Basil

The soul, Advancing ever to the source of light And all perfection, lives, adores, and reigns In cloudless knowledge, purity, and bliss.

— Henry Ware Jr

For, the sense of being which in calm hours rises, we know not how, in the soul, is not diverse from things, from space,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The soul has come to the physical realm to have a direct experience of itself as an "individuation of divinity."

— Neale Donald Walsch

The mind is pure and luminous by nature. It is defiled only by adventitious thoughts and emotions

— Gautama Buddha