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Quotes About Illumination

The only church that illuminates is a burning church.
~ Buenaventura Durruti
Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it's dark.
~ Zen Proverb
Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination.
~ Vin Scully
Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.
~ Alan Dean Foster
Gata, Iona? R?zbim noi cumva la lumin?!
~ Unknown
Los años corren, simulan que se detienen y vuelven a correr, pero siempre hay alguien que en medio de la oscura perspectiva alza una antorcha que nos obliga a ver el lado íntimo de las horas.
~ Mario Benedetti
Nor ever yet the melting rainbow's vernal-tinctur'd hues to me have shone so pleasing, as when first the hand of science pointed out the path in which the sun-beams gleaming from the west fall on the watery cloud.
~ Mark Akenside
she was born of the moon and stars and all of the beautiful things that shine through the darkness, and show us the light.
~ Unknown
When he came there was no light. When he left there was no darkness.
~ Mark Batterson
The whole scene seemed lit by a thousand dusty, forty-watt lightbulbs. He had to make a move. 'I need to get to my officer,' he said. Palmer didn't appear to be listening. Thorne took a step forwards, and in a second the gun was levelled at him. 'No!' Palmer shouted. Thorne was genuinely surprised. 'What are you playing at, Martin?' Palmer said nothing.
~ Mark Billingham
monorails writhing like phosphorescent vipers.
~ Unknown
AUTHOR: Appealing to an emotion is rather irrational. THE ODIN BROTHERHOOD: True. But Odinists know the irrational can be a source of illumination.
~ Mark Mirabello
I]t was the way The ruined moonlight fell across her hair, It was that, and it was more. — Mark Strand, from section II of "What It Was," Blizzard of One: Poems (Alfred A. Knopf, 1998)
~ Mark Strand
If you want to experience eternal illumination, put the past and the future out of your mind and remain within the present moment.
~ Elif Safak
The days of the future stand in front of us Like a line of candles all alight Golden and warm and lively little candles.
~ C.P. Cavafy
when the picture is too close to your face you lose the sight, when the future is too close to your face you see the light.
~ Mohlalefi j motsima
Goal-setting illuminates the road to success just as runway lights illuminate the landing field for an incoming aircraft
~ Nido R Qubein
By persistent and sustained practice, anyone and everyone can make the yoga journey and reach the goal of illumination and freedom.
~ B.K.S. Iyengar
My goal would be trying to bring some light to the world, which is often a dark and violent place.
~ Leila Josefowicz
Believe in God like you believe in the sunrise. Not because you can see it, but because you can see all it touches.
~ C. S. Lewis
There sit the sainted sage, the bard divine, The few, whom genius gave to shine Through every unborn age, and undiscovered clime.
~ Thomas Gray
Hatred and bitterness can never cure the disease of fear; only love can do that. Hatred paralyses life; love harmonises it. Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
~ Unknown
When love is in action creativity has no limits we're liberated and illuminated with the truth.
~ Unknown
Wherever there's light, there's bugs.
~ Unknown