Quotes About Illumination

The eye which turns from a white object in the light of the sun and goes into a less fully lighted place will see everything as dark.

Light is the chaser away of darkness. Shade is the obstruction of light

You don't notice the light without a bit of shadow.

Some things should stay mysteries," said Metzli. "The moon would not be the same moon, if one side did not remain in the dark.

The great and good ends proposed by the Illuminati, as the ultimate objects of their union, are the overthrow of religion, government, and human society civil and domestic.

There is no complete spiritual life without music, for the human soul has regions which can be illuminated only by music.

Lighthouses are more helpful than churches.

The anointing of the Holy Spirit is given to illuminate His Word, to open the Scriptures, and to place the spiritual man in direct communication with the mind of God.

The universe and the light of the stars come through me.

While some men see ordinary happenings, others see divine light and guidance.

Soul receives from soul that knowledge, therefore not by book nor from tongue. If knowledge of mysteries come after emptiness of mind, that is illumination of heart.

There's a fire that burns away the lies, manifesting in the spiritual eye.

Conversion by the Holy Spirit is a spiritual illumination of the soul. God's grace lights up the dark heart. And when a man has once been kindled at the cross of Christ, he is bound to shine.

The greater your inner light the brighter your outer world.

Politicians use economics in the same way that a drunk uses lamp-posts—for support rather than illumination. —variation on a theme of Andrew Lang (1910)

As the area of light expands, so does the perimeter of darkness.

Why, if it weren't for this 'internal illumination' [i.e., sentience] the world would be nothing but a pile of dirt!

Technology has tended to devaluate the traditional vision-inducing materials. The illumination of a city, for example, was once a rare event, reserved for victories and national holidays, for the canonization of saints and the crowning of kings. Now it occurs nightly and celebrates the virtues of gin, cigarettes and toothpaste.

For now there is only the darkness expanding and deepening, deepening into light; there is only this final peace, this consciousness of being no more separate, this illumination . . .

The illumination of a city, for example, was once a rare event, reserved for victories and national holidays, for the canonization of saints and the crowning of kings. Now it occurs nightly and celebrates the virtues of gin, cigarettes and toothpaste.

Nella luce delle due ultime lapandine, lo studio era già una sacca nera, mantenuta in vita da due pupille di luce. Quando rimase l'ultima, era un sussurro. La guardavano da lontano, senza avvicinarsi, come per non sporcarla.

I am blessed, and being blessed is something more than just having something; it is a state of mind in which the good of the world is illuminated, is understood. It is as if one is vouchsafed a vision of some sort, she thought, a vision of love, of agape, of the essential value of each and every living thing.

All cats are grey in the dark, he had written in one chapter. So remember that how much you can see of a situation depends on how much light you can shine upon it.

He had been looking in quite the wrong place-a place of darkness-when he should have been looking in a place of light.