Quotes About Revelation

He'd not known what was happening to us in Lisbon, Constantina. The full truth of our situation hadn't been told of in England

And she'd felt an opening in her chest where she hadn't known anything was closed.

The world hid its head in the sands of convention, so that seeing nothing it might avoid Truth. It said to itself: 'If seeing's believing, then I don't want to see -- if silence is golden, it is also, in this case, very expedient.

Las palabras abren puertas sobre el mar.

Truth is so often disconcerting.

People hide truths about themselves from themselves. Such self-deception is a coping mechanism, and to one extent or another, most people begin deceiving themselves when they're children.

As I turned to leave the tent, she said, Don't worry. Your own mother wouldn't know you. I said, She never has.

The more familiar that a place becomes, the more mysterious it becomes, as well, if you are alert to the truth of things.

That I had come full circle shouldn't have surprised me, for we are born into time only to be born out of it, after living through the cycles of the seasons, under stars that turn because the world turns, born into ignorance and acquiring knowledge that ultimately reveals to us our enduring ignorance: The circle is the essential pattern of our existence.

People go through life failing to see all sorts of amazing things because they aren't expecting to see them.

To generations of the willfully blind, true beauty can remain unseen in plain sight, but beauty sooner or later asserts itself—always, always, always—and is at last recognized, because there's so damn little of it.

Sometimes enlightenment descends upon you when you least expect it...

The more familiar that a place becomes, the more mysterious it becomes, as well, if you are alert to the truth of things. I have found this to be the case all of my life.

Anyone who learns the true and hidden nature of the world will be terrified, Oddie, but there's a safe harbor past the terror.

That I had come full circle shouldn't have surprised me, for we are born into time only to be born out of it, after living through the cycles of the seasons, under stars that turn because the world turns, born into ignorance and acquiring knowledge that ultimately reveals to us our enduring ignorance: The circle is the essential pattern of our existence.

Then the clarifying thing happens, and what you need to do, what you must do, is not a question, not demand more revelation than what is given, be quiet in the face of it, quiet and grateful that it has been given to you to see this, to be for even a short time aware of the extraordinary layered depths and profound beauty of the world to which we mostly blind ourselves.

She understood at least as well as I did what corruption and pitiless cruelty might be hidden behind the masks that some people wore.

Amazement and astonishment express the momentary overwhelming of the mind by something beyond expectation. Amazement is an emotional response, astonishment an intellectual one.

Earlier, she asked if I would die for her. Without hesitation, I said that I would—and meant it. I don't understand either my reaction to her or the source of her power. She is something other than she appears to be. She tells me that I already know what she is and that I only need to accept the knowledge that I already possess.

The penitent face of the religieuse collapsed into the greedy hookworm maw, as though it ate its own false countenance

In life, deep and terrible secrets are usually revealed not when you're searching for them, but when you least expect them and are unprepared.

That was when you discovered she'd recently begun using PCP—what's sometimes called 'angel dust' on the street.

My plan was to drive to Peptoe, Arizona, and track down the three men who found me in a bassinet

morning that Lupo and Hamal pull back the curtain to reveal to Katie that California can be Hell on Earth.