Quotes About Illumination

There are poisons that blind you, and poisons that open your eyes.

Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing. Use the pain as fuel, as a reminder of your strength.

Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.

I am like a moon that shines on an immense, unknown sea where ships never pass

I ask of life to shine meaning in everyone who is searching.

In the distance, he could see a large star made out of red and green lights on the side of a barn, a reminder that Christmas was coming.

The sun, which passeth through pollutions and itself remains as pure as before.

I want the reader to know what's going on. So there's never a mystery in my books.

Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.

SEE THROUGH THE FOG

How Poetry Comes to Me It comes blundering over the Boulders at night, it stays Frightened outside the Range of my campfire I go to meet it at the Edge of the light

The pool and the miniature vale that contained it, always dark, grew darker still. Looking up after countless kisses, he saw idling fish of mottled gold and silver, black, white, and red, hanging in air above the goddess's upraised hand, and for the first time noticed light streaming from a lamp of silver filigree in the branches of a stunted tree. "Where did they go?" he asked.

There is no magic. There is only knowledge, more or less hidden.' Hildegrin

One needs to properly possess only a couple of great thoughts--they shed light on many stretches whose illumination one would never have believed in.

A ray of imagination or of wisdom may enlighten the universe, and glow into remotest centuries.

I can think of no other edifice constructed by man as altruistic as a lighthouse. They were built only to serve.

a terrible scorching light showed him the hidden letters that changed the meaning of the past.

God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.

I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.

Out in the lonely woods the jasmine burns Its fragrant lamps, and turns Into a royal court with green festoons The banks of dark lagoons.

Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

I do not like to work with patients who are in love. Perhaps it is because of envy - I, too, crave enchantment. Perhaps it is because love and psychotherapy are fundamentally incompatible. The good therapist fights darkness and seeks illumination, while romantic love is sustained by mystery and crumbles upon inspection.

Well, it's because I gladly acknowledge some ideas that are part of process theology, but which I think are not tied to all the details of process thought, and are very illuminating and helpful.

Minds should be enlightened with science, and hearts need to be illumined with religion.