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1 " Most of my friends like words too well. They set them under the blinding light of the poem and try to extract every possible connotation from each of them, every temporary pun, every direct or indirect connection - as if a word could become an object by mere addition of consequences. Others pick up words from the streets, from their bars, from their offices and display them proudly in their poems as if they were shouting, " See what I have collected from the American language. Look at my butterflies, my stamps, my old shoes!" What does one do with all this crap? "
2 " Sometimes we simply don't want to face the truth about ourselves; the myth reads so much better. Sometimes we do not seek help because it will mean we have to change, and change is painful and unpredictable. To me, now, faith is bringing all that is true about our lives into the blinding light of God's grace. It is believing that He will still be there at the end of the journey, and so will we, perhaps a little bloodied, probably with a limp, and possibly, as the Skin Horse said, with most of our hair loved off, but we will be there. "
― Sheila Walsh , Loved Back to Life: How I Found the Courage to Live Free
3 " And so even the righteous heart is besieged by the blinding light of false knowledge. Falsity is like an ocean that presses around solitary moments of truth, treatening to overwhelm or blind the seekers of knowledge, to eradicate them in an instant of self-deceiving brilliance.Knowledge is power; it guards our souls - guard it well. "
4 " Not that I haven't leaped up into the blinding light of competence now and then. It's sustaining the altitude that defeats me. "
― Lois McMaster Bujold , A Civil Campaign (Vorkosigan Saga, #12)
