The sun is the natural and proper symbol
of the light.
-Manly Hall
At first I did adore a twinkling star;
But now I worship a celestial sun.
-William Shakespeare
With the sun you have an image
of a permanently radiant, generous being.
-Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov
The sun is simply bright.
It doesn't correct anyone.
Because it shines,
the whole world is full of light.
-Anonymous
The sun shines for the whole world.
-Taisen Deshimaru
The sun is the image of perfection
and, if you take it as your model,
if, like, the sun,
you think of nothing but spreading light, warmth and life,
you will really and truly transform your life.
-Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov
...someone who has the ambition
of becoming like the sun.
No other work could ever satisfy him.
-Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov
Yet herein I will imitate the sun.
-William Shakespeare
One must not imitate the sun,
one must make oneself into a sun.
-Raoul Dufy
The inner sun is;
the outer sun becomes.
-Chinmoy Kumar Ghose, "Sri Chinmoy"
The sun! the sun!
And all we can become!
-Theodore Roethke
Sunshine is my quest.
-William Churchill
I'm set in one direction:
toward the sun.
-Theodore Roethke
Farewell!
I go to find the Sun!
-J. R. R. Tolkien
And hooting at the glorious sun in Heaven,
Cries out, "Where is it?"
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The sun can only be seen
by the light of the sun.
-Farid ud-Din Attar
The inconceivable idea of the sun.
You must become an ignorant man again
And see the sun again with an ignorant eye
And see it clearly in the idea of it.
-Wallace Stevens
The sensitive eye can never be able to survey the orb of the sun,
unless strongly endued with solar fire,
and participating largely of the vivid ray.
-Plotinus
You see the sun with different eyes.
-George Serefis
What is man?
The sun's light when he unfolds it,
Depends on the organ that beholds it.
-William Blake
Whether it be darkness or light
the glowing sun abides anywhere in a solitary state.
-Jnanadeva
The sun sees in all directions
but can he enjoy his rising and setting?
-Jnanadeva
Is there any eclipse
in which the sun eclipses himself?
-Jnanadeva
Can the sun light itself?
-Jnanadeva
Is there a single day
among the three hundred sixty five
when the sun could see himself with his own eyes?
-Jnanadeva
Born of the sun
they traveled a short while towards the sun
-Stephen Spender
The sun is love. The lover,
a speck circling the sun.
-Djalal ad-Din Rumi
Come you lost Atoms to your Centre draw,
And be the Eternal Mirror that you saw:
Rays that have wander'd into Darkness wide
Return and back into your Sun subside.
-Farid ud-Din Attar
Trace the gold sun about the whitened sky
Without evasion by a single metaphor.
Look at it in its essential barrenness
And say, this, this is the centre that I seek.
-Wallace Stevens
Sunflower, what are you?
I am the eye of the seeker who searches for the light.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan
Touching deeply,
we realize that the sun is also our heart.
-Thich Nhat Hanh
That which is in the heart and in the sun,
The inner Self and the world's golden eye,
Though seemingly different are really one.
-Claude Bragdon
Whose sunbright summit mingles with the sky.
-Thomas Campbell
The sun, center and sire of light,
The keystone of the world-built arch of heaven.
-Phillip James Bailey
A Sun!
Burn the great sphere thou mov'st in.
-William Shakespeare
Now I feel the Sun burst in my heart
Exploding blazing petals free
Streaming beams to darkened reaches
Unfolding golden endlessly
-Lyn Birkbeck
When the sun reached noon
I disappeared.
-Farid ud-Din Attar
Finally reach the realm of eternal sunshine.
-Sivananda
The one who has looked at the sun
and then looks at himself,
finds he is filled with nothing else
but rays of the sun and exclaims,
"I am the sun."
-Al-Hallaj
The being in the Sun beyond,
He am I! -Issa Upanishad
I dwell in the body of the sun.
-Thomas Browne
I am mute in the core of the Sun,
My cosmic play is done.
-Sri Chinmoy
The Sun of my Perfection is a Glass
Wherein from Seeing into Being pass.
-Farid ud-Din Attar
To praise the sun
is to praise your own eyes.
-Djalal ad-Din Rumi
This great deity is actually the sun in heaven,
which even now illuminates the world before our eyes.
-Shinto Hymn
The body of the Sun is never seen.
It is only known.
-Kenneth G. Mills
The Sun is God.
-William Turner
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!
-Alexander Pope
The sun of wisdom has risen
shining in every direction.
-Thich Nhat Hahn
You've become the shining sun
from every direction.
-Tabib Shirazi
The Sun is not only a seeing eye,
but also a flowing well.
The Sun being a well,
the light of his rays is the moisture that flows from the well.
-Ignaz Goldziher
The Sun can never know dark
it brings its own light wherever it shines.
-Alice O. Howell
The sun lights up a thousand courtyards.
Take away the walls
and you will see
that is is all the same light.
-Djalal ad-Din Rumi
Suns are sunflowers of a higher light.
-Johann Paul Friedrich Richter
A sky full of silent suns.
-Johann Paul Friedrich Richter
The light of the Divine Awareness
has risen in my heart
like the sun over the horizon
and it will never set.
-Al Hallaj
A man who moves with the earth
will necessarily experience day and night;
he who stays with the sun
will know no darkness.
-Nisargadatta
Thy sun shall no more go down
nor shall thy moon withdraw itself. -The Bible
The sun in my own dominions
never sets.
-Friedrich von Schiller
Whose dwelling is the light
of the setting sun.
-William Wordsworth
The sun has not yet set for all time.
-Titus Livius
Sky empty and luminous beyond all attachments, Remains. Me, the setting sun resplendent with light, Will not remain at all.
I pass behind the western summit To reappear again soon, Above the mountains of the east.
