Quotes About Being Illuminated

#1. As the light of morning strikes now one peak and then another, some being illuminated while others are in the shadow, so the light of the essential moral principle shines now upon one duty and then upon another, while others are in the shadow.

Felix Adler

#2. In every civilized society there is found a race of men who retain the instincts of the aboriginal cannibal and live upon their fellow-men as a natural food.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#3. I am blessed and being blessed is something more than just having something. It is a state of mind in which the good of the world is illuminated, it's understood. It is as if one is vouchsafed a vision of some sort, a vision of love, of 'agape', of the essential value of each and every living thing.

Alexander McCall Smith

#4. He was a terrific guy. It is a great loss to the sports world. Wilt Chamberlain had a special place in basketball history and he will be missed. We had many battles with Wilt. He was a fun guy to be around; he was a 'Gentle Giant.'

Tom Heinsohn

#5. What is being awake if not interpreting our dreams, or dreaming if not interpreting our wake?

Jonathan Safran Foer

#6. There's nothing more exciting to me than using real instruments in the studio.

Michael Kiwanuka

#7. But who, he wondered in a moment's panic as her nearing heat began to assault him, who enforces the Enforcer?

Jacquelyn Frank

#8. In the old days in San Francisco there was a famous drink called Pisco Punch, made from Pisco, a Peruvian brandy pisco punch used to taste like lemonade but had a kick like vodka, or worse.

Harold Ross

#9. May the hinges of friendship never rust, nor the wings of love lose a feather.

Edward Ramsay

#10. Someone who claims to write with emotion recollected in tranquility, is a fool and a liar. To understand is to tremble. To recollect is to re-enter and riven ... I admire the authority of being on one's knees in front of an event.

Harold Brodkey

#11. The ultimate horror movie for a really un-illuminated being is an enlightened person. They are scared of others seeing what they are all about and what they really do. They are scared of truth.

Frederick Lenz

#12. The illuminated life can happen now, in the moments left. Die to your ego, and become a True Human Being.

Rumi

#13. Gough, of course, would have loved to speak today but the rules of the game have disqualified him.

Tony Whitlam

#14. For me now, I will continue to focus ever harder on my goal of being the very best I can be with Toulon Rugby Club and continue to embrace and enjoy wherever that path takes me.

Jonny Wilkinson

#15. Children, after being limbs of Satan in traditional theology and mystically illuminated angels in the minds of educational reformers, have reverted to being little devils; not theological demons inspired by the evil one, but scientific Freudian abominations inspired by the unconscious.

Bertrand Russell

#16. Toward the One, the perfection of love, harmony and beauty, the only being, united with all the illuminated souls who form the embodiment of the master, the spirit of guidance.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

#17. I've noticed that just about every time I find a large program with known glitches that no one seems able to fix, that program is written in C and is likely written by a programming team in a remote location.

Jerry Pournelle

#18. Gathering wool, are we? (Ewan)
Nay, merely practicing irritating you, and by the looks of your face, I'd say I'm doing a rather remarkable job of it. My mother always says that any effort worth pursuing is worth pursuing well. (Nora)

Kinley MacGregor

#19. We've got people, our friends and neighbors, who are losing their jobs, factories being closed. We have to get America moving again.

James Douglas