Quotes About Illumination

Without a veil your countenance cannot be seen, Without a veil your eyes cannot be seen. Unless one is experiencing complete enlightenment The source of the sun cannot be seen.

light can change the atmosphere in dark places

It is, however, very important never to lose sight of the fact that the miniatures in illuminated books were not conceived as individual and independent paintings. They are book illustrations and are thus always intimately connected with a text.

The preparation of an illuminated book has always been a very expensive business.

Anglo-Saxon and Irish saints and scholars played a vital role in the conversion of Europe, especially during the seventh and eighth centuries, and through them insular art influenced the work of early continental illuminators.

Although illuminated books were an expensive luxury, it would be a mistake to suppose that all the most elaborate ones were made exclusively for royalty or for the higher ranks of the nobility.

Although most of the finest early illumination is to be found in liturgical manuscripts, some secular texts were also illuminated. Their number was to increase with increasing individual ownership of books.

I had to wonder if the Lord above had flashed a heavenly spotlight over my head and whispered, "Preach this sermon just for her. She's not going to get the message otherwise.

If you're solving someone else's problem, you're constantly stabbing in the dark. When you solve your own problem, the light comes on.

cada vez hay más zona de sombra. Aunque también haya más iluminada, siempre son más las sombras.

The cards act like an early warning system that lets us choose our future instead of reacting to it as it happens. This is the difference between stumbling around in the dark and turning on the lights. We may not like what we see, but at least we can see it. Now we can make intelligent choices instead of being at the mercy of the darkness.

Anything unconscious dissolves when you shine the light of consciousness on it.

Everything is shown up by being exposed to the light, and whatever is exposed to the light itself becomes light.

St. Paul expressed this universal principle beautifully: "Everything is shown up by being exposed to the light, and whatever is exposed to the light itself becomes light.

Overhead hung a summer sky furrowed with the rush of rockets; and from the east a late moon, pushing up beyond the lofty bend of the coast, sent across the bay a shaft of brightness which paled to ashes in the red glitter of the illuminated boats.

He pocketed his watch with a milder look, and began to turn about busily in the empty shell of his own mind. His universe was a brilliantly illuminated circle extending from himself at it's centre to the exact limit of his occupations and interests.

Society is a revolving body which is apt to be judged according to its place in each man's heaven; and at present it was turning its illuminated face to Lily.

Society is a revolving body which is apt to be judged according to its place in each man's heaven; and at present it was turning its illuminated face to Lily.

The lights of the little highway town ahead spread with their approach and then scattered like flushed prey as they entered its limits. Under the filling-station sheds, swirling insects clouded the naked bulbs. The stores were closed; the depot dark.

forced to observe the fringes of unconsciousness and make darkness visible;

The Great White Way.

Your life is something opaque, not transparent, as long as you look at it in an ordinary human way. But if you hold it up against the light of God's goodness, it shines and turns transparent, radiant and bright. And then you ask yourself in amazement: Is this really my own life I see before me?

Let us rejoice in the truth, wherever we find its lamp burning.

passes he stands for a moment close to us, as though illumined by a flash of lightning. Then we see him as he really is. After