Is this too much light for these plants

Hi,
I keep reading about 'direct' and 'indirect' sunlight. I get very good light in my apartment. I keep my plants sitting on the window sill. The light is pretty bright, however, I wonder if this is what's called "direct" sunlight. In any case, please look at the photos and let me know if this is too much light for the following plants: rubber plant, prayer plant, philodendron, christmas cactus and a couple of succulent plants.

Thank you,
Nydia

Which way do your windows face? East - west -south? And, how tall are the building around you? I'd be interested to know how many hours per day the sun is actually coming in your windows.
All that said, I think that in general a prayer plant and philodendron and maybe even a rubber plant need less light than the others and don't necessarily need to be in a windowsill...but let's find out how much light is coming in before weighing in on that. If you see them getting brown or crispy or bleached out, they may be complaining about too much sun. In general, the succulents want more light and most of mine want to be in a south or west window. However, a few want an east window or to be back from the window a foot or two, because out in nature they'd be growing underneath other plants. Do you happen to know what succulents they are?

Thank you, Momlady =) I'll monitor them for signs of them being uncomfortable on the windowsill. =)

My windows all face west. There is one building in front of me (which you can see in the photo's) and it has about 24 floors. I'm on the 3rd floor so it pretty much towers over me. It blocks out some sun, but, my apt still gets very bright. I would say that the apartment remains bright enough for me to comfortably read a book (for example) from about 9am to 7pm - so about 10hrs, I would say the sun comes into my apartment.

The succulents I have are a Burro's Tail and another one I keep forgetting the name of. I've posted a picture of them in this reply.

Burro Tail and Haworthia (the small succulent in the blue pot) are OK with more light.
Sun from the west can be pretty hot. As suggested above, monitor the plants to see if they are OK.
The ones momlady listed as better away from the window grow under the shade of other plants in nature, usually in a forest. So there may be some bright light between the branches, but it is not all day, like you are describing.
Bright enough to read is good.
Casting shadows is a bit too much.

Diana_K: Thank you so very much. I've noticed a few black spots on one of the Rubber Plant leaves (photo) (although I think it came that way - I've only had it for a week) ... Is that a sign it's getting too much sun?

In any case, I'm going to find a spot close to the window to move the Rubber Plant and Prayer Plant to.

Thanks again =)

Usually plants in too much sun turn pale, yellow-green. (minor over exposure)
Tan blotches, usually mid leaf (some sunburn)
to the whole leaf turning brown (major sunburn)

Not sure why Ficus gets black like that.

Is the Ficus in a smaller pot inside the larger one? Once acclimated, rubber tree can stand being in direct sun in south Alabama all day, so I'd consider that the most "high light" plant of your group.

The other plants will let you know if they're getting too much light. The Christmas cactus is Schlumbergera truncata. Its' foliage will turn pale if it has too much sun.
http://archive.today/75Nv
http://www.clemson.edu/extension/hgic/plants/indoor/flowering/hgic1554.html
http://www.ag.auburn.edu/hort/landscape/Hcactus.htm

Maranta, same thing, as said above. I put Maranta in pretty deep shade under trees, where some direct light comes at it sideways for a short time in the morning. When it matures a bit, hopefully it will make some of its' cute little flowers for you. They look like they have glitter inside the petals.

Pretty sure the other one is Pothos (Epipremnum.) Often confused with Philodendron, and they like the same things, so no harm done. It doesn't need to be terribly close to a west window either.

...so the moral of the story is, you have more room for 'first row' plants that like a ton of sun in those great big west windows!

Thanks so much for the info Purpleinopp. I started to notice some tan holes in a few of the leaves in the Rubber tree plant. I think it was getting to much sun so I moved it to the shadier side of that same window. I put the Prayer plant in that same shadier side next to the Rubber tree plant. The other plants seem ok w/ the light so I left them on the 'sunnier' side of the window. =)