Ring the bells that still ring

Forget your perfect offering.

There is a crack in everything,

That’s where the light gets in

(Leonard  cohen)

Don’t turn away, 

now look within.

Keep you gaze on the bandaged place,

That is where the light gets in.

(Rumi)

Darkness must be present,

To see the stars align.

Darkness is the gateway

for our light to shine.

(Francis Bacon)

Darkness cannot drive out darkness,

Love is our only mentor.

Hatred doesn’t cease by hatred,

Only love,  the eternal law 

(Martin Luther King)

One doesn’t become enlightened,

By imagining figures of Light.

But by making the darkness conscious,

Bringing the unseen into sight.

(Carl Young).

Through him who is the light,  

the darkness will depart.

From his greater lamp a lesser lamp,

we light shining in our heart.

(Three fold puja)