Quotes About Illumination

My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.

An angel can illume the thought and mind of man by strengthening the power of vision.

I believe the poem is a sacramental act, pure devotion to whatever may be revealed only through the music of intuition. The dance of the intellect, the dance of wild imagination, illuminates what cannot otherwise be known.

Rhythm is the only thing secure. In this darkness, rising, I recall the Pacific stars. This ritual ascendance goes on in a city that has erased them and blurred its sun out altogether. Iron Wolf has something. I want it without the bother of definitions. The dangerous illumination, the light in the exploding eye, is not for this other city.

The world will probably not look brighter after we've eaten, but we'll be able to see in the dark better." She

The spirit is smothered, as it were, by ignorance, but so soon as ignorance is destroyed, spirit shine forth, like the sun when released from clouds.

The stars about the lovely moon hide their shining forms when it lights up the earth at its fullest.

not one girl I think who looks on the light of the sun will ever have wisdom like this

And her light stretches over salt sea equally and flowerdeep fields.

Yet I love refinement and Eros has got me brightness and the beauty of the sun.

To them life is like a book with blank pages. But to the detective, it is an illuminated manuscript of mysteries.

You are a lightning guardian. You create lightning. You are the spark that can ignite the world.»

The most important thing? Perfect lighting at all times.

The moon puts on an elegant show, different every time in shape, colour and nuance.

In one way, I suppose, I have been 'in denial' for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light.

Now is the time of the illuminated woods ... when every leaf glows like a tiny lamp.

A clerk and a ladder and warm golden light, and then: the right book exactly, at exactly the right time.

Yet without the darkness," said Palin suddenly, "we would never be aware that the stars exist.

Thus she entereth and walketh in the way of illumination, that she might be taught into the ghostly influences of the divine work of God, there to be drenched[7] in the high flood, and oned to God by ravishing of love, by which she is all one spirit with her spouse.

Comme le voyageur qui navigue entre les îles de l'Archipel voit la buée lumineuse se lever vers le soir, et découvre peu à peu la ligne du rivage, je commence à apercevoir le profil de ma mort.

When we pray for God to illumine our path, we are saying, 'Dear God, please show me the way. What thoughts do I need to think, to be able to navigate my life at this point? What perceptions do I need; what insights will guide me? Who do I need to forgive? What parts of my personality do I need to look at; what changes do I need to make? Please come upon me and heal my life. Amen.

How odd that we spend so much time treating the darkness, and so little time seeking the light. The ego loves to glorify itself by self-analysis, yet we do not get rid of darkness by hitting it with a baseball bat. We only get rid of darkness by turning on the light.

now embrace the divine child within me. May it burst forth now to bless the world. May I not be tempted to doubt the light that lights the entire world. Illumine the earth and save the world. Thank You, Lord.

Tanto en el mundo espiritual como en el mundo físico, cuando más oscuro está el cielo, vemos mejor la luz de las estrellas.