The greater the fire, the greater the light to arise from it . . .

"The greater the fire, the greater the light to arise from it, for the fire of God is a cause of the light.  But in the love the fire dies and transmutes itself into the kingdom of joy."

Jacob Boehme,
16 the century German mystic

Photo: Pasqueflowers and burned woods at sunset; High Park Burn, Greyrock Trail, Roosevelt National Forest, CO; April 10, 2014

The trials of life are a fire that produces the light of insight.

"As matter of some sort must be consumed to cause fire, so certainly can no true life begin without some previous death.  The candle must lose itself, its substance, if it is to give light . . . The greater the fire, the greater the light to arise from it, for divine fire is a cause of the light . . . But in love, the fire dies and transmutes itself into the kingdom of joy.

Jacob Boehme, 17th century German mystic

Photo: Horsetooth Reservoir glows with a strange ethereal light caused by the High Park Fire, near Fort Collins, CO; June 11, 2012