Quotes About Illumination

But the light in front of the mosque-- the light I stood in as I was greeted like a local hero, simply for rising from my bed three hours after most of the women and children I lived with-- this light was something else again. It buzzed and held you in its heat, it was thick, alive with pollen and insects and birds, and because nothing higher than one story interrupted its path, it gave all its gifts at once, blessing everything equally, an explosion of simultaneous illumination.

this light was something else again. It buzzed and held you in its heat, it was thick, alive with pollen and insects and birds, and because nothing higher than one story interrupted its path, it gave all its gifts at once, blessing everything equally, an explosion of simultaneous illumination. "What

Every morning the world flung itself over and exposed the town to the sun.

Le vent revint en triple furie, et une bonne fois pour toutes éteignit les lanternes. Ils restèrent assis en compagnie de tant d'autres comme eux dans d'autres baraquements, leurs yeux s'éreintant contre les murs rudimentaires, leur âme cherchant à savoir si Son intention était de mesurer leur piètre puissance à l'aune de la Sienne. Tous semblaient fixer l'obscur, mais leurs yeux dardaient sur Dieu.

Beckett had an unerring light on things, which I much appreciated.

Dac? lumina e prima dragoste a vie?ii, dragostea nu este oare lumina inimii?

L'étude prête une sorte de magie à tout ce qui nous environne.

Je vais vous éclairer, moi, la position dans laquelle vous êtes; mais je vais le faire avec la supériorité d'un homme qui, après avoir examiné les choses d'ici-bas, a vu qu'il n'y avait que deux partis à prendre : ou une stupide obéissance ou la révolte. Je

If light is the first love of life, is not love the light of the heart?

How fast we learn in the day of sorrow! Scripture shines out in a new effulgence; every verse seems to contain a sunbeam, every promise stands out in illuminated splendor; things hard to be understood become in a moment plain.

Again and again, I am aware that the Light not only illumines but it also burns .

Might we begin then to transform our passing illuminations into abiding light?

Now that he knew that he was, that he existed to celebrate his existence, he looked with delight and fascination at every all-night hot-food stall, every neon welcome to a caste bar or club, every vagrant waft of steam from the pneumatique ventilators, every puddle of yellow streetlight, every rain-slick cobble, because in the continued existence of those other things he saw his own being reflected.

The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.

If you want special illumination, look upon the human face: See clearly within laughter the Essence of Ultimate Truth.

Mientras la lámpara interna de las joyas siga encendida, apresúrate a despabilar su mecha y suministrarle aceite.

La cuestión del conocimiento divino es tan profunda que realmente la conocen solamente aquellos que lo poseen.

The door of illumination is open to those for whom other doors are closed.

The union of the mind and intuition which brings about illumination, and the development which the Sufis seek, is based upon love.

The only way to know how long you are lost in the darkness is to be saved from it.

Let philosophy be the light shining through the cloak of darkness that presently covers the world.

The nights are best when bright with the wonderment of the world beyond.

There was an enlightenment in my mind, and too now, enlighten the world will I.

while daisies burn like stars on the darkened hill.