Quotes About Illumination

Spiritual Autolysis—trying to write something true and keeping at it until you do—is the best possible way of identifying and eradicating our falseness because the process of writing minimizes the weaknesses and maximizes the strengths of the intellect. Nothing false can survive illumination by a steady and focused mind.

But you're curious, too," she said. "Why do you say that?" "You guard the light. And light sees everything.

I'm going to teach you the art of distinguishing between day and night. Always look at a window, and failing that look into the eyes of a man. If you see a face, any face, then you can be sure that night has succeeded day. For, believe me, night has a face." Then

Arthur realizes that if he were alone, it would be a grim wait...with the girl, it's an adventure. That's what being with another does. He remembers now, with something like a full body flush. He remembers what it means to share something with someone. The particular alchemy that can light things up.

I just want God. I want God inside me. I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on water.

as dark as the night gets without a moon, it is really not true darkness. It's just waiting for light to return.

The sun is born again from the womb of night," he said. "See how the light spreads, remaking the world.

moon dipped low over the dark outlines of the mountains, and the sable sky blazed with stars. There

He read it over twenty times and though the darkness that sang on held steady about him, the unhurried words fell bright through his mind, going down golden through deep water, and when one passed another came, ceaselessly, shining.

Dawn was breaking, like the light from another world.

The great world's altar-stairs,That slope through darkness up to God.

Winter. It made things visible.

Well, truth's like the sun. Look right at it and that's your eyes ruined for life.

I have a vision that the modern sense of being a hero is like shining a bright light on things that need to be seen.

cry out with me turn on the lights

Timeless, and loveless, this light touches me. I won't need anything else.

You will receive in flashes a new knowledge in language you won't know.

up we ascend past the constellations of dawn

room of the shining sounds.

Se tornardes exterior o que está dentro de ti, o que trouxeres à luz te salvará. Se não trouxerdes à luz o que está dentro de ti, o que não trouxeres à luz te destruirá.

The first whisper of stars is a faint thing a candle sound, too far away to read by...

I notice the fatigue of flowers weighed down by light

severed by light from myself not knowing but almost

but it is glittering now in the gaps between things