Quotes About Illumination

She's not seen it a tenth this bright on any previous night.

A novena to the darkness

One of the three candles burned out, and darkness eagerly pulled its chair a little closer to the table.

They followed the light and the shadow, and the light led them forward to light and the shadow led them to darkness. —T. S. ELIOT, Choruses from The Rock, VII

It is only when we have the courage to face things exactly as they are, without any self-deception or illusion, that a light will develop out of events, by which the path to success may be recognized. I Ching, Hexagram 5, Hsü, Waiting (Nourishment)

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I feel that I want to use light as this wonderful and magic elixir that we drink as Vitamin D through the skin - and I mean, we are literally light-eaters - to then affect the way that we see.

I am one of the elect, one of the few in the know, in the gnosis.

It's important to be enlightened.

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I photograph anything that light falls on.

I keep the subject constantly before me, and wait 'till the first dawnings open slowly, by little and little, into a full and clear light. [Reply upon being asked how he made his discoveries]

We must strive to be like the moon

If you want to know how much darkness there is around you, you must sharpen your eyes, peering at the faint lights in the distance.

Gerçek ?u ki gündüzün ?????nda, bu yay?lm??, soluk, hemen hemen gölgesiz ayd?nl?kta geceninkinden de daha koyu bir karanl?k buluyorum.

or else we contemplated the stars beyond the Moon, big as pieces of fruit, made of light, ripened on the curved branches of the sky, and everything exceeded my most luminous hopes ...

on the façade of the house the lighted candles opened eyes of gold within the window frames.

The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts.

The fact is that I find in the day's light, in this diffused, pale, almost shadowless luminosity, a darkness deeper than the night's.

The sun didn't illuminate me! When you are old, you remain in shadow, even when you have wit.

Your willingness to look at your darkness is what empowers you to change.

Your path is illuminated by the light Yet darkness lets the stars shine bright.

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?

God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.