inner light
noun
often capitalized I&L
: a divine presence held (as in Quaker doctrine) to enlighten and guide the soul
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Give your inner light a chance to shine, touch people’s lives and enrich the world around you.
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Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 28 Mar. 2024
This effect is especially powerful at night, for example when the inner light of the 71 heading downtown from Westwood passes through Beverly Hills, accenting the ruby red glamour of the Beverly Hilton sign and spotlighting the Waldorf Astoria’s platinum one.
—Mark Gozonsky, Los Angeles Times, 25 Mar. 2024
Kazan deftly manages to convey Sister’s James struggle between innocent naivety and the loss of inner light that comes with considering ugly possible truths.
—Dalton Ross, EW.com, 7 Mar. 2024
Here are horses being led by riders searching the forest for an inner light.
—John Kinsella, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2023
Like the building of EQ, practices in leveraging inner light must be repeated, just like a muscle must be repeatedly exercised to be built.
—Pravir Malik, Forbes, 14 Apr. 2022
In this moment, black seems to evoke fear, hurt and pain while the creature’s inner light — which is more white — leans into more positive color stereotypes.
—Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 July 2023
The simulations showed energy collecting on the inner light ring made the boson star collapse into a black hole or explode into a less dense object with no light rings, the researchers report in a paper in press at Physical Review Letters.
—Byadrian Cho, science.org, 4 Jan. 2023
Some perceive rolling waves, drifting clouds or inner light.
—Robin Soslow, Chron, 2 Apr. 2023
Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 28 Mar. 2024
This effect is especially powerful at night, for example when the inner light of the 71 heading downtown from Westwood passes through Beverly Hills, accenting the ruby red glamour of the Beverly Hilton sign and spotlighting the Waldorf Astoria’s platinum one.
—Mark Gozonsky, Los Angeles Times, 25 Mar. 2024
Kazan deftly manages to convey Sister’s James struggle between innocent naivety and the loss of inner light that comes with considering ugly possible truths.
—Dalton Ross, EW.com, 7 Mar. 2024
Here are horses being led by riders searching the forest for an inner light.
—John Kinsella, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2023
Like the building of EQ, practices in leveraging inner light must be repeated, just like a muscle must be repeatedly exercised to be built.
—Pravir Malik, Forbes, 14 Apr. 2022
In this moment, black seems to evoke fear, hurt and pain while the creature’s inner light — which is more white — leans into more positive color stereotypes.
—Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 July 2023
The simulations showed energy collecting on the inner light ring made the boson star collapse into a black hole or explode into a less dense object with no light rings, the researchers report in a paper in press at Physical Review Letters.
—Byadrian Cho, science.org, 4 Jan. 2023
Some perceive rolling waves, drifting clouds or inner light.
—Robin Soslow, Chron, 2 Apr. 2023
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“Inner light.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/inner%20light. Accessed 18 Apr. 2024.
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