Top 100 Quotes About Illumination
#1. Spirituality is like a thin-thin thread, that if delicately followed guides us from darkness to light; from poverty to abundance and from destruction to safety.
Bryant McGill
#2. The exploration of oneself is usually also an exploration of the world at large, of other writers, a process of comparison with oneself with others, discoveries of kinships, gradual illumination of one's own potentialities.
Colin Wilson
#3. The idea that I could work wonders as the Lord flutters through my mind like a glamorous butterfly. I hasten to catch it, but it escapes into the depths of my mind.
Stefan Emunds
#4. One has to recognize that science is not metaphysics, and certainly not mysticism; it can never bring us the illumination and the satisfaction experienced by one enraptured in ecstasy. Science is sobriety and clarity of conception, not intoxicated vision.
Ludwig Von Mises
#5. The union of the mind and intuition which brings about illumination, and the development which the Sufis seek, is based upon love.
Idries Shah
#6. Evil exists in this world because it has its place. For had you never sat blindly through the darkness of night, your eyes wouldn't turn toward the sunrise to appreciate its warmth and illumination.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#7. We don't want to feel less when we have finished a book; we want to feel that new possibilities of being have been opened to us. We don't want to close a book with a sense that life is totally unfair and that there is no light in the darkness; we want to feel that we have been given illumination.
Madeleine L'Engle
#8. And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it.
Adam Weishaupt
#9. Understanding the past requires pretending that you don't know the present. It requires feeling its own pressure on your pulses without any ex post facto illumination.
Paul Fussell
#10. The universe is a gigantic amusement park in which we can have a ride or two.
Stefan Emunds
#11. The Self is the heart, self-luminous. Illumination arises from the heart and reaches the brain, which is the seat of the mind. The world is seen with the mind; so you see the world by the reflected light of the Self.
Ramana Maharshi
#12. Through ignorance, through faith, through intelligence, through trickery and cunning, through illumination, the reader rewrites the text with the same words of the original but under another heading, re-creating it, as it were, in the very act of bringing it into being.
Alberto Manguel
#13. Just a tiny moment of illumination, a heartbeat long ... page 348.
Jay Kristoff
#14. Jesus also function on the earth through the power of light. Light, illumination, knowledge, insight, understanding, wisdom. That is their real power on earth.
Sunday Adelaja
#15. The apostles were moved, not so much by an intellectual apprehension, as by a spiritual illumination. They met men, and the need of those men whom they met cried aloud to them.
Roland Allen
#16. Feelings of passion, pure bliss, reverence, optimism, trust and illumination indicate that your desire to manifest success and abundance has an extremely strong pulling power from the universal source to you.
Wayne Dyer
#17. We forget just how painfully dim the world was before electricity. A candle, a good candle, provides barely a hundredth of the illumination of a single 100 watt light bulb.
Bill Bryson
#18. The work of intimacy, of course, is to learn to both show your own illumination, and to see it in a way that the physical eyes cannot reveal. In a way that only the heart can reveal: the illumined beauty in another person.
Marianne Williamson
#19. In Euripedes's The Bacchae...Dionysus dispenses food, drink and comfort, and inspires communal energy, song and dance; he is rapture and rage, illumination and blindness.
Anya Taylor
#20. During the Middle Ages they understood that words accompanied by imagery are much more memorable. By making the margins of a book colorful and beautiful, illuminations help make the text unforgettable. It's unfortunate that we've lost the art of illumination.
Joshua Foer
#21. Being more self-aware means welcoming more light into a dull life. When we throw light upon our self-perceptions, we immediately realise that the light has always been there, yet we had created an illusion of darkness.
Raphael Zernoff
#22. I have suckled the wolf's lip of anger and I have used it for illumination, laughter, protection, fire in places where there was no light, no food, no sisters, no quarter.
Audre Lorde
#23. So sometimes one has simply to endure a period of depression for what it may hold of illumination if one can live through it, attentive to what it exposes or demands.
May Sarton
#24. Creationists use facts the same way a drunk uses a lightpost: for support instead of illumination
Robert Green Ingersoll
#25. The life of the mind is reality, and love without romantic illumination is a spiritless matter.
Ellen Glasgow
#26. One needs to properly possess only a couple of great thoughts
they shed light on many stretches whose illumination one would never have believed in.
Georg Simmel
#27. We know there is a sun in heaven, yet we cannot see what matter it is made of, but perceive it only by the beams, light and heat. Election is a sun, the eyes of eagles cannot see it, yet we may find it in the heat of vocation, in the light of illumination, in the beams of good works.
Thomas Adams
#29. The unknown scares man, but those who confront it, will cease to fear it" (Rodolfo Rios Medina)
Rodolfo Rios Medina
#30. One passionate heart can brighten the world. From person to person the chain reaction burns through us - setting heart to heart ablaze, and lighting the way for us all!
Bryant McGill
#31. Angels love to create synchronicities because each synchronicity produces an illumination point for a soul to connect the dots on life experiences. This insight, in turn, creates an opportunity to expand the heart and grow the soul, which always results in positive change for humanity.
Molly Friedenfeld
#32. The adept may reach one of those rare moments that spell illumination
aware of the light of the consciousness that illumines our consciousness as the sun dawns on the sleeping earth and bathes it in effulgence.
Vilayat Inayat Khan
#33. Identify darkness in the society and find ways to help illuminate it
Sunday Adelaja
#34. Illumination in the outer world is to be happy no matter what is going on. In the inner world, it's more ineffable. It's harder to express.
Frederick Lenz
#35. Soul receives from soul that knowledge, therefore not by book nor from tongue. If knowledge of mysteries come after emptiness of mind, that is illumination of heart.
Rumi
#36. By persistent and sustained practice, anyone and everyone can make the yoga journey and reach the goal of illumination and freedom.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#37. Light means knowledge in the Greek language it can also be translated as illumination, knowledge, insight, understanding and wisdom
Sunday Adelaja
#39. Most striking at first is the appearance of sudden illumination, a manifest sign of long unconscious prior work.
Henri Poincare
#40. The Gnostic only can wake up to the true state of Illumination by understanding and disintegrating dreams.
Samael Aun Weor
#42. Your intelligence is a fire that can illuminate any darkness. Awaken and let your mind burn so brightly! You are alive for a reason!
Bryant McGill
#43. Do not seek illumination unless you seek it as a man whose hair is on fire seeks a pond.
Ramakrishna
#44. People press toward the light not in order to see better but in order to shine better.
We are happy to regard the one before whomwe shine as light.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#45. In meditation, silently and serenely, all words are transcended.
In Illumination, all things appear as is.
Silence is the ceasing of ego-grasping. Illumination is the functioning of the wonder of wisdom.
The unity of these two is awakening to Buddha Nature.
Sheng Yen
#46. But man's eyes are blind through sin, and he can discern no part of God's truth till the Spirit opens them. Inner illumination, leading directly as it does to a deep, inescapable conviction, is thus fundamental to the Spirit's work as a teacher.
J.I. Packer
#47. In order to make the novel into a polyhistorical illumination of existence, you need to master the technique of ellipsis, the art of condensation. Otherwise, you fall into the trap of endless length.
Milan Kundera
#48. But sometimes illumination comes to our rescue at the very moment when all seems lost; we have knocked at every door and they open on nothing until, at last, we stumble unconsciously against the only one through which we can enter the kingdom we have sought in vain a hundred years - and it opens.
Marcel Proust
#49. Even the sun directs our gaze away from itself and to the life illumined by it.
Eberhard Arnold
#50. Spirituality wants to know and experience higher states of mind and being. It wants to wrestle with angels and look the Creator in the eye.
Stefan Emunds
#51. The light obtained by setting straw men on fire is not what we mean by illumination.
Adam Gopnik
#52. The greatest gift is the passion for reading.
It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites,
it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind.
It is a moral illumination.
Elizabeth Hardwick
#53. I embrace my shadow self. Shadows give depth and dimension to my life. I believe in embracing my duality, in learning to let darkness and light, peacefully co-exist, as illumination.
Jaeda DeWalt
#54. In the temporary illumination of the headlights, the insects were scribbling out messages from God that we couldn't get.
Heather O'Neill
#55. A man can learn much, but learning is not knowledge. The only true source of infallible certainity is divine illumination.
Stephen R. Lawhead
#56. I studied a truckload of true crime, praying for illumination, but most true crime relies on luridness and voyeurism for effect.
Poe Ballantine
#57. To be myself (I note) I need the illumination of other people's eyes, and therefore cannot be entirely sure what is my self.
Virginia Woolf
#58. We should accept indiscriminately all His dispensations, whether obscurity or illumination, fruitfulness or barrenness, weakness or strength, sweetness or bitterness, temptations, distractions, pain, weariness, or doubtings; and none of all these should, for one moment retard our course.
Jeanne Marie Bouvier De La Motte Guyon
#59. He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts ... for support rather than illumination.
Andrew Lang
#60. Painters who are not colorists produce illumination, not painting.
Eugene Delacroix
#61. The streetlight forge speech bubbles of illumination in the air. A faint glow from the moon casts eerie shadows behind the dark clouds.
Cheree Smith
#63. I wanted to go to acting school, and I did a few modeling jobs to pay for acting school. I never aspired to be a model. I met lots of photographers, and I learned a lot about light - as a source of love and illumination, light as a gift of love. On film, that's a massive contribution.
Jacqueline Bisset
#64. The key to all mysteries and the source of all Illumination lies deep within the self. ROSICRUCIAN MANUSCRIPT
Harvey Spencer Lewis
#65. Faith is not belief, it is the grasp on the Ultimate, an illumination.
Swami Vivekananda
#66. A philosophical thought has probably not attained all its sharpness and all its illumination until it is expressed in French
Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve
#67. It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done, if every man were placed in the office for which he was fitted by nature and a proper education, which first suggested to me the plan of Illumination.
Adam Weishaupt
#68. When we want culture more than potatoes, and illumination more than sugar-plums, then the great resources of a world are taxed anddrawn out, and the result, or staple production, is, not slaves, nor operatives, but men,
those rare fruits called heroes, saints, poets, philosophers, and redeemers.
Henry David Thoreau
#69. Intuitive knowledge is an illumination of the soul, whereby it beholds in the light of God those things which it pleases Him to reveal to us by a direct impression of divine clearness.
Rene Descartes
#70. Lailah, always remember that you are light that bring illumination to many people across the world.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#72. I'd love to be remembered as a character actor who brought illumination to roles in wonderful plays and who delivered performances that made people think and rethink those roles.
David Suchet
#73. The truth can set you free, but when it comes, it's more like a wrecking-ball than a holy beam of illumination.
Bryant McGill
#74. When one has once had the good luck to love intensely, life is spent in trying to recapture that ardour and that illumination.
Albert Camus
#75. The difference between transformation by accident and transformation by a system is like the difference between lightning and a lamp. Both give illumination, but one is dangerous and unreliable, while the other is relatively safe, directed, available.
Marilyn Ferguson
#76. Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.
August Wilson
#77. [A]ll knowledge is one. When a light brightens and illuminates a corner of a room, it adds to the general illumination of the entire room. Over and over again, scientific discoveries have provided answers to problems that had no apparent connection with the phenomena that gave rise to the discovery.
Isaac Asimov
#78. There are places where it is easy to see, places of illumination, where one moves into illumined states of attention.
Frederick Lenz
#79. Act as if the universe is a prodigious miracle created for your amusement and illumination. Assume that secret helpers are working behind the scenes to assist you in turning into the gorgeous masterpiece you were born to be. Join the conspiracy to shower all of creation with blessings.
Rob Brezsny
#80. Maturity understands that there's darkness in the world but that there's no need to dwell in it: we can lighten up and offer illumination to others.
Gina Barreca
#81. Tasteful illumination of the night, Bright scattered, twinkling star of spangled earth.
John Clare
#82. The greater the realization of truth and ahimsa, the greater the illumination.
Mahatma Gandhi
#83. In a world where there were no specifically mental facts, is it not plain that there would be a complete impartiality, an evenly diffused light, not the central illumination fading away into outer darkness, which is characteristic of objects in relation to a mind?
Bertrand Russell
#84. If you don't laugh at all, you've missed the point. If you only laugh, you've missed your chance from illumination.
Robert Anton Wilson
#85. There's a danger and a beauty to the moment which seems out of time. It pierces something deep inside of him, bypassing his rationale, and it touches his very core. In a sudden shock of illumination, and of knowing, he recognizes this woman is his destiny, and their fates are intertwined.
Scarlett Amaris
#86. The rainbow is elusive, and its colors but the illumination of tears ...
Alice Dunbar Nelson
#87. This is the great object held out by this association; and the means of attaining it is illumination, enlightening the understanding by the sun of reason which will dispell the clouds of superstition and of prejudice.
Adam Weishaupt
#88. When you suppress your darkness you also suppress your light.
Bryant McGill
#89. If you like to read, sometimes it's interesting just to go and see what the reality is, of the word, of the seedy or not so seedy fiction writer, the drunk or sober poet ... Sometimes you can go looking for illumination.
Harold Brodkey
#90. My biography of Frank Sinatra is not paean to his music but rather an illumination of the man behind the music, who once described himself as 'an 18-karat manic-depressive who lived a life of violent emotional contradictions with an over-acute capacity for sadness as well as happiness.'
Kitty Kelley
#91. If we immerse ourselves in the ultimate good, we will have this silly smile on our face or perhaps just inside our hearts. That is what illumination is.
Frederick Lenz
#92. It is impossible to grasp another human's inner world. But even in the darkness of the densest forest, there can always be the light of a firefly.
Krupakar
#93. The beam of light flashed across her own face and she thought, Yes, me, Khady Demba, still happy to utter her name silently and to sense its apt harmony with the precise, satisfying image she had of her own features and of the Khady heart that dwelled within her to which no one but she had access.
Marie NDiaye
#94. Atheism is a system which can communicate neither warmth nor illumination, except from those fagots which your mistaken zeal has lighted up for its destruction.
Charles Caleb Colton
#95. We must keep in mind that where the road is crooked, God makes it straight, and where our hearts are wounded, God makes us whole. As we open our hearts in purity and simplicity, admitting to God that we are completely powerless in the area of our problem, His illumination redeems us.
Marianne Williamson
#96. Whether drugs lead to illumination or degradation depends on the spirit in which one takes them
George Andrews
#97. If awareness and conscious thought are seen as a part of life - not its master nor its opponent but an illumination of the developing process within the individual - then our total life can be the unified and unifying experience that is characteristic in nature.
Carl R. Rogers
#98. Our identity should be about what sphere of life we ought to bring to light as Christians
Sunday Adelaja
#99. We can find meaning and reward by serving some higher purpose than ourselves, a shining purpose, the illumination of a Thousand Points of Light ... We all have something to give.
George H. W. Bush
#100. Needless fear and panic over disease and misfortune that seldom materialize are simply bad habits. By proper ventilation and illumination of the mind it is possible to cultivate tolerance, poise and real courage.
Elie Metchnikoff
