Sunbeams Quotes

“Molecules form and dissolve, returning to the primordial soup of atoms. But consciousness survives the death of the molecules on which it rides. What was once a bundle of energy in a sunbeam turns into a leaf, only to fall and change again into soil. The change of state crosses many boundaries. A sunbeam is invisible, whereas leaves and soil are visible.A leaf is alive and growing,whereas sunbeams aren't.the colors of light, leaf, and soil are different, and so on.But all these transformations exist as constructs of the mind.The actual energy present in the sunbeam experiences no change at all.”

“Catch sunbeams in a mirror! A reflection of a sunbeam can melt an iceberg.”

“Suffice to say, the dream writer had a way of phrasing things. She could depict the curve of a cucumber, the shape of a sunbeam, the endearing, velvety tilt of a peach, in just such a way that she earned her living selling dreams. One simply made a selection, read it in solitude, and let it percolate till sleep. People swore they fell directly into her renderings, and one even asked if the dream writer could write a dream of dreaming forever. The dream writer could not do this, but she hired dream apprentices to expand the reach of her dreams and she wrote dreams for herself in which she would sit at a desk, pen in hand, and write even more dreams. This nearly doubled her output.”

“It is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condensed the deeper they burn.”

“A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams a shadow annihilates them.”

“A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams a shadow annihilates them.”

“Nothing can be truer than fairy wisdom. It is as true as sunbeams.”

“Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.”

“The older women were Sunbeams and I guess we were Cherubs or Lambs but our mothers were Nightingales.”

“You smiled then, and your whole face changed with it. It kind of lit up, like there were sunbeams coming from inside you.”