Quotes About Illumination

Indeed how might it be if things revealed their colors only when (in our terms) no light fell on them - if, for example, the sky were black? Could we not then say, only by black light do they appear to us in their full colors?

In painting, three things must be considered - the position of the viewer, the position of the object viewed, and the position of the light that illuminates the object.

We don't want to feel less when we have finished a book; we want to feel that new possibilities of being have been opened to us. We don't want to close a book with a sense that life is totally unfair and that there is no light in the darkness; we want to feel that we have been given illumination.

We don't want to feel less when we have finished a book; we want to feel that new possibilities of being have been opened to us. We don't want to close a book with a sense that life is totally unfair and that there is no light in the darkness; we want to feel that we have been given illumination.

Stars shine so they can see the world, not so the world can see them.

Shine forth your light before all beings.

Illuminate your path to a greater success.

Once an individual shines bright walking in average light to some may appear as dim surroundings..

Chekhov will seek out the key situation in the life of a cabman or a charwoman, and make them glow for a brief moment in the tender light of his sympathy.

But you can't stay in the dark for so long. Something inside of you starts to fade and you become like a starving person, crazy-hungry for light.

Wherever there is light, look for the shadow. The shadow is me.

The inner and poetic illumination of his life came from me.

There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.

Let there be light. This

Darkness is only light's absence.

Darkness is only light's absence. -Things that Are

Rather darkness than the illumination of the unclean.

shemesh, which meant like the sun.

The fact that the universe is illuminated where you stand—that your thoughts and moods and sensations have a qualitative character in this moment—is a mystery, exceeded only by the mystery that there should be something rather than nothing in the first place.

The gleaming stars all about the shining moon Hide their bright faces, when full-orbed and splendid In the sky she floats, flooding the shadowed earth with clear silver light.

The dark was still a mystery, something hidden, something to be scared of, but I'd come to fear the light, too. It was where everything was revealed, or seemed to be.

You have to have the power to employ pain, to repent, to be illuminated, you must have the opportunity and even the time.

By now I have gone many miles toward the promise of sleep, but I reach my destination blindingly wide awake. My state therefore is something like a state of insomniac illumination.

Dove c'è molta luce, l'ombra è più nera...