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Quotes About Luminosity

I'd been living luminously between two eternities of darknness.
~ Ohran Pamuk
There was light all about him.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Their arms aloft pulling at their clothes were luminous and each obscure soul was enveloped in audible shapes of light as if it had always been so. The mare at the far end of the stable snorted and shied at this luminosity in beings so endarkened and the little horse turned and hid his face in the web of his dam's flank.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Soap shining beauty.
~ Walker Percy
Proper lighting is everything, Julianna.
~ Wendelin Van Draanen
tenait, une vive clarté rejaillissait sur ses
~ Wilkie Collins
The beauty isn't in the jewel itself, but in the way the light shines through it.
~ William Kent Krueger
I lived in a brilliantly lit haze, shifting and flickering according to my changing desires. Of course, that is only a description of being young.
~ lessing doris vi
Phosphorescence
~ Unknown
The forehead of every work must shine from afar.
~ Pindar
There's more to light than the opposite of dark.
~ Ric Ocasek
As for the ground of being, the text, Garland of Pearls, states:Dharmakaya is devoid of any form of corruption. It embodies the two qualities of emptiness and luminosity, and this natural condition is not subject to the influences of mental activities. It is unconditioned and all-pervasive, just like the space itself, therefore it cannot be represented as being this or that.
~ Unknown
Colors are the deeds/ and sufferings of light.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Your ultimate desire is for the union of consciousness with its own luminosity, wherein all appearance is recognized as your deep, blissful nature, and there is only One. Your desire for union with a woman is a stepped-down version of this ultimate spiritual need.
~ David Deida
At half past three in the morning I woke up. And immediately elastic I jumped out of bed. I came to write you. I mean: be. Now it's half past five. I want nothing: I am pure. I don't wish this solitude on you. But I myself am in the creating fog. Lucid darkness, luminous stupidity.
~ Clarice Lispector
Glamour is a shooting star, it catches your eye, but fades away, beauty is the sun always brilliant day after day.
~ Michael Dolan
A truth was being revealed to me: that I had always tried to attach myself to the light of other people, that I had never had any light of my own. I experienced myself as a kind of shadow.
~ Zadie Smith
Live in rooms full of light.
~ Unknown
Clouds, too, can give light if only the sun shines on them.
~ Corrie Ten Boom
I like light, color, luminosity. I like things full of color and vibrant.
~ Oscar de la Renta
the young Sun's energy output was probably about 70 percent of what it is today. With the Sun's initially lower luminosity, even the water that did form wouldn't have been in a liquid phase without some other explanation—a quandary known as "The Faint Sun Paradox.
~ Lisa Randall
Still, a great deal of light falls on everything
~ Vincent Van Gogh
She felt like there was light dripping from her fingertips. Spilling out of her toes. She felt full of light, in fact, warm buttery sunlight.
~ Rachel Caine
What would the world be like if we were more curious about light and less afraid to admit our own luminosity? How would our sense of beauty expand if we actively inspired each other to bring forward the light we each carry?
~ J. Ruth Gendler