Quotes About Illumination

The point was in his being a gifted creature, and that of all his gifts the one that stood out pre-eminently, that carried with it a sense of real presence, was his ability to talk, his words—the gift of expression, the bewildering, the illuminating, the most exalted and the most contemptible, the pulsating stream of light, or the deceitful flow from the heart of an impenetrable darkness. The

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The point was in his being a gifted creature, and that of all his gifts the one that stood out pre-eminently, that carried with it a sense of real presence, was his ability to talk, his words—the gift of expression, the bewildering, the illuminating, the most exalted and the most contemptible, the pulsating stream of light, or the deceitful flow from the heart of an impenetrable darkness.

bearers of a spark from the sacred fire. What

Illumination is the essence while darkness is the matrix.

Suppose these hours are composed of ourselves, So that they become an impalpable town, full of Impalpable bells, transparencies of sound. Sounding in transparent dwellings of the self, Impalpable habitations that seem to move In the movement of the colors of the mind. Confused illuminations and sonorities, So much ourselves, we cannot tell apart the idea and bearer - being of the idea....

From the opening lines of the play Three Travelers Watch a Sunrise All you need, To find poetry, Is to look for it with a lantern.

Throw away the light, the definitions, and say what you see in the dark.

The exceeding brightness of this early sun Makes me conceive how dark I have become.

You may see the light, but the light is not the result of your eyesight.

Brilliantly lit from stem to stern, she looked like a sagging birthday cake.

But when there's light, there's darkness as well.

Knowledge is night!

or flashlights that, in the words of Dan Rothstein of the Right Question Institute (RQI), "shine a light on where you need6 to go.

Rothstein maintains. "Just asking or hearing a question phrased a certain way produces an almost palpable feeling of discovery and new understanding. Questions produce the lightbulb effect.

The second secret: The second secret may actually be the often prophesized "Illumination of the Soul". Throughout the history of recorded apparitions, locutions, and other supernatural spiritual phenomena, there has been a consistent thread of prophecy that describes an interior "illumination" of the soul that will be experienced by every living human being at a designated time. It is also called the illumination of the conscience.

There are many references to the final illumination in the texts of prophecies past and present. The credibility of the Illumination of the Soul comes from a number of supernatural events. It was allegedly foretold to St. Catherine Laboure in 1830 (at Rue du Bac in Paris, France, the place of the Miraculous medal), to St. Faustina Kowalska in the 1930s (Divine Mercy; Kracow, Poland) and to St. Padre Pio of Italy.

Facts do not convey truth. That's a mistake. Facts create norms, but truth creates illumination.

If you're purely after facts, please buy yourself the phone directory of Manhattan. It has four million times correct facts. But it doesn't illuminate.

Light up your life by turning on your brain."

Let nothing keep you separate from the truth. The soul, illumined from within, longs to be known for what it is.

Fooey! The porchlight is burnt out, and I can't see whether it's dark outside or not.

Sun spreads through the treetops like an epidemic.

After illumination," Socrates continued, "difficulties continue to arise; what changes is your relationship to them. You see more and resist less. You gain the capacity to turn your problems into lessons and your lessons into wisdom."