Quote #126195
The inward light is forever striving to gather enough additional light to penetrate the fog of our senses.
Henry S. Haskins
About This Quote
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Interpretation
The sentence frames human understanding as a struggle between inner intuition (“the inward light”) and the distortions of embodied perception (“the fog of our senses”). It suggests that insight is not static or fully possessed; it is “forever striving,” accumulating “additional light” through reflection, experience, or moral/spiritual growth. The metaphor implies that sensory data can obscure rather than reveal truth, and that clearer knowledge comes from an interior faculty that must be strengthened over time. In this view, wisdom is a gradual clarification—an ongoing attempt to see past appearances toward a more reliable, inwardly apprehended reality.


