Light

We find the light only after total defeat of our attempts to deceive and outwit it.

"The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls."

The armies of the day have chased the army of the night,
Heaven and earth are filled with purity and light.

In the space of no-mind, truth descends like light

Be a light unto yourself.

"The things we keep secret are always bigger and more frightening in the darkness than they are in the light of day."

Where there is no light, one cannot see; and when one cannot see, his imagination starts to run wild.  He begins to suspect that something is about to happen.  In the dark there is mystery.

The warrior of the light listens to what his opponent has to say.
He only fights if absolutely necessary.

Visualize a tiny seed of light emanating from your heart center, getting brighter and brighter, until it fills your whole body, allowing this sense of spontaneously arising joy to take root in your heart, and spread throughout your entire being. This is the bright smile of spontaneously present joy.

For a boy, I had been doing extraordinary things, which caused much wonder. Before I could walk, I could play on the piano, with one finger, any tunes that I heard, then, gradually, with all fingers, even the complex melodies played by blind Mr. Maynard, who, to me, was the greatest man in all the world.
Mr. Maynard lived in the dark but walked and talked with God in the Light. And what the soul of Creation told his Soul, he told me – and I walked and talked with God in those early days in His wonderlands of Peat Meadow and the huge oaks down in Bachelder’s wilds where nobody went but me, for no one else in all My World heard what I heard there – nor saw what I saw there – so it was mine alone, all that glory just mine alone.