Quotes About Epiphany

If we think about the obvious long enough, it dissolves.

Madness, and then illumination.

I looked for perfection, and I found something better.

Anyone can find the switch after the lights are on.

You're pretty much obliged to reckon that at the last suspiration the dying become not only acceptant of death but dedicated to it. That there must be some epiphany that makes it possible for even the dullest and most deluded of us to accept not only what is unacceptable but unimaginable. The absolute terminus of the world. Which will not wonder even for the briefest second what might have become of us.

Sometimes it is not until the Final Chapter that you realise what a quest has REALLY been about all along.

Suddenly he realized what was happening.

We can find awe, then, in eight wonders of life: moral beauty, collective effervescence, nature, music, visual design, spirituality and religion, life and death, and epiphany.

Vastness can be physical—for example, when you stand next to a 350-foot-tall tree or hear a singer's voice or electric guitar fill the space of an arena. Vastness can be temporal, as when a laugh or scent transports you back in time to the sounds or aromas of your childhood. Vastness can be semantic, or about ideas, most notably when an epiphany integrates scattered beliefs and unknowns into a coherent thesis about the world.

Joy said she hadn't really understood the meaning of life until Tyffanie had come along, but now she understood it perfectly. Well, great, I felt like saying. Make sure you share the news with Plato and Kierkegaard and all those other philosophers who'd banged their heads against the wall, trying to figure things out.

Somehow I have been stunned. Stand back! Give me a little time beyond my cuffed head and slumbers and dreams and gaping, I discover myself on the verge of the usual mistake.

Lightning bolts went off in my head," according to Jobs. "I remember running into the house, crying.

We are witnessing the physical and mental response, including amazement and reverence and curiosity, to an epiphany. Only the Virgin seems still, the calm in the vortex. Portraying the swirl of characters was a daunting task, perhaps too much so. Each had to have a unique pose and set of emotions. As Leonardo later wrote in his notebook, "Do not repeat the same movements in the same figure, be it limbs, hands or fingers, nor should the same pose be repeated in one narrative painting.

The result is a whirlwind of drama and emotion. Not only did Leonardo render each of the reactions of those first beholding the Christ child, but he turned the Epiphany into a swirl in which each character is swept by the others' emotions, and then so is the viewer.

el satori es una experiencia súbita y se lo describe a menudo como un «vuelco» de la mente

and I realized that Garrett was right about one thing- I had flipped. Completely.

Maybe it's time to meet him in the proper light.

Some of the best things I have ever thought of I have thought of during bad sermons.

I couldn't figure out how the seat belt worked. Then it just clicked.

Maybe we spend most of our decades being someone else, avoiding ourselves, maybe a man is only himself, his true self, for a few days in his entire life.

She finally realized where they were. 'This is Legoland!

She looked at her parents, clear-eyed and astonished, like she understood exactly who she was for the very first time. A prisoner of her own body.

Sometimes we don't look up unless we have a reason to. And then it all becomes clear.

You don't know what you don't know. Until you do, and then you will never be the same