Light Within Quotes

“You are not what you are;
You are darkness
Looking for light within.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, Circling: 1978-1987

“You cannot defeat darkness by running from it, nor can you conquer your inner demons by hiding them from the world. In order to defeat the darkness, you must bring it into the light.”
― Seth Adam Smith, Rip Van Winkle and the Pumpkin Lantern

“Nothing like being woken up after only a few hours of sleep by workmen wanting to come into your sanctuary to check water lines to put life into perspective. Wine glasses, dishes, yesterday’s ghosts, and a fucking mess everywhere. It’s not all about me, is it? Life moves around out there and sometimes it wants to come in and mess with me when all I want to do is turn over and hide. I am a fragile being, sometimes it takes almost nothing to knock me off my feet and make me tired of living. Sometimes I am so tired that everything is a gargantuan effort. But I'm strong, I always hang on and hold on. My emotions run from being elated and looking up to the sky and seeing all the infinite possibilities, to looking straight into the eyes of Hades. But you know me, I always come through with all my scars, all the love I carry in my heart, and my crooked tiara. Every single diamond in that tiara reflects all the light within me and within you. Indestructible”
― Riitta Klint

“In the midst of all the darkness, a radiant light is taking birth in the unseen. Stay strong.”
― Hiral Nagda

“Let the light shine bright,
dim it not to suit the prisoners!
Does the sun come with a dimmer,
because its radiance dimwits cannot bear!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Divane Dynamite: Only truth in the cosmos is love

“Birds never know if the sun will rise,
yet they sing everyday right before dawn.
And sure enough the sun emerges,
defeating the most ominous mourn.

Be the herald of impossible light,
even amidst the worries of souls most weary.
The darkness of the world may not be your fault,
to light up the world is your existential duty.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yarasistan: My Wounds, My Crown

“The light in me is the light in thee!”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Humanitarian Dictator

“In you is the light, in you is the might, come riding your fiery steed and light up even the darkest night.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Every Generation Needs Caretakers: The Gospel of Patriotism

“At a distance you only see my light - come closer and you'll see, you are made of the same light.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Servitude is Sanctitude

“It's through your wounds that your light pours out into the world.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Servitude is Sanctitude

“Light is born of the mind - where there is a mind there is possibility of light.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neden Türk: The Gospel of Secularism

“We are our own light and our own darkness.”
― Aiyaz Uddin

“Vagabond Light (The Sonnet)

When the tide of realization comes,
Theories and concepts cause but decay.
In the kingdom of absolute oneness,
Stoneage constructs wither and fade away.
What am I gonna do with theories!
I'm no intellectual obligated to be a smartass.
I am but a fakir, a vagabond who knows nothing.
So I submit myself at the mercy of the lovers.
I'm tired of trying to be important to the shallow,
I'm tired of trying to make sense to the senseless.
Adjusting to prehistoric habits of a dualistic world,
The mind loses touch with its magical magnificence.
Let the light shine bright,
dim it not to suit the prisoners!
Does the sun come with a dimmer,
because its radiance dimwits cannot bear!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Divane Dynamite: Only truth in the cosmos is love

“Birds never know if the sun will rise,
yet they sing everyday right before dawn.
And sure enough the sun emerges,
defeating the most ominous mourn.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yarasistan: My Wounds, My Crown

“Get to know the animal within,
World will know the human outside.
Resist no more the darkness within,
World will wake up to a dawn divine.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat

“Consciousness contains the cosmos. Once you feel this in your heart, all the answers, all the solutions, all the light will boldly pour out of your nerves and veins like monsoon rain.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Insan Himalayanoğlu: It's Time to Defect

“Truth isn't a measure of knowledge,
Truth is the measure of correction.
Light isn't a measure of illumination,
Light is the measure of intention.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Insan Himalayanoğlu: It's Time to Defect

“Light isn't a measure of illumination,
Light is the measure of intention.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Insan Himalayanoğlu: It's Time to Defect

“World's light comes from your light,
It comes from the sacrifice of the few.
If these few ever became selfish,
Whole world would drown in dwindling dew.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“Burn my friend, burn,
Burn so bright that
the sun gets fried!
Shine my friend, shine,
Shine so bright that
Rudolf goes blind!

Smile my friend, smile,
Smile so pure that
flowers shy away.
Love my friend, love,
Love so drunk that
Rumi himself lays the way.

Fly my friend, fly,
Fly so fearless that
Tagore himself honors you.
Live my friend, live,
Live so unchained that
time makes gospel of you.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

“Burn my friend, burn,
Burn so bright that
the sun gets fried!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

“Burn so bright that the sun gets fried!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

“Life is an instrument of light.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iman Insaniyat, Mazhab Muhabbat: Pani, Agua, Water, It's All One

“Know your roots, know your nature,
Step out of your tribal stretcher.
You got a mind full of atomic light,
Where did you lose your himalayan vigor!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tum Dunya Tek Millet: Greatest Country on Earth is Earth

“Light is but suffering harnessed,
Genius is brokenness harnessed.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Divine Refugee

“In a world where you can be anything, I strongly believe that being kind is one of the most valuable traits one can possess. In a world where we are constantly bombarded with negativity, being kind is like a beacon of light in the darkness. It helps us feel at home in an otherwise cold and hostile world.”
― An Marke

“Firefly Sonnet

Firefly, oh firefly,
why do you gleam so!
Who do you try to impress,
who is the object of your glow!

Oh, ye of little sight,
said the gentle little beacon!
Creatures with light eternal,
don't shine to stir public opinion.

I gleam, 'cause that's my life,
I know no other way of existence.
Puny apes gotta find an agenda,
for most are anemic of effulgence.

And you have the gall to call us bugs,
while your mind is stuck in gutter!
My fire bears proof of existence,
you carry yours as cheap souvenir.


(Note: as a biologist I must mention, this is a purely poetic piece, not to be analyzed with science, for evolutionarily speaking, glowworms use their glow to warn away predators, and attract mate.)”
― Abhijit Naskar, Brit Actually: Nursery Rhymes of Reparations

“I gleam, 'cause that's my life,
I know no other way of existence.
Puny apes gotta find an agenda,
for most are anemic of effulgence.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Brit Actually: Nursery Rhymes of Reparations

“Creatures with light eternal, don't shine to stir public opinion.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Brit Actually: Nursery Rhymes of Reparations

“When solar radiation strikes ionosphere, earth produces the northern lights. When suffering strikes psychosphere, mind produces heart light.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim