Quotes About Illumination

The Westinghouse Corporation won a bid for illuminating the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, which was to be the first all-electric fair in history.

The work of a lifetime, the process of individuation, is widening of that spotlight so much that everything is illuminated and you are conscious of and can see your All.

Her name is Aurora, for she is my shining light in the darkness.

What he found were "a few brilliant beacons in a fog of fools.

In order to cause a shadow to disappear, you must shine light on it.

The word is a flame burning in a dark glass.

Only those that wandered in the darkness truly revel in the light

Why onions? Because they're cheap, last a long time, can be lit any number of ways and force me to think about what happens when the form turns away from the light.

It is high time that we had lights that are not incendiary torches.

Sometimes, when you catch someone unaware at just the right time and in just the right light, you can catch sight of what they will be.

The image pleases me enough : to slip from the body's tight container and into some luminous womb, gliding there without effort till the distant shapes glow brighter and more familiar, till all your beloveds hover before you, their lit arms held out in welcome.

maybe death isn't darkness, after all, but so much light wrapping itself around us--

Imagine lifting the lid from a jar and finding it filled not with darkness but with light.

And then the stars stepped forth and help up their appointed fires- that hot, hard watchman of the night.

maybe death isn't darkness, after all, but so much light wrapping itself around us — as soft as feathers — that we are instantly weary of looking

have wrestled with the angel and I am stained with light and I have no shame.

Why do people keep asking to see God's identity papers when the darkness opening into morning is more than enough?

According to more than one astronaut memoir, one of the most beautiful sights in space is that of a sun-illumined flurry of flash-frozen waste-water droplets. Space doesn't just encompass the sublime and the ridiculous. It erases the line between.

What may not be expected in a country of eternal light

mi objetivo. Me sentía como el árabe que enterrado junto a los muertos encontró un pasadizo por el cual volver al mundo, sin más ayuda que una luz mortecina y apenas suficiente. Amigo mío, veo por su interés, y por el asombro y expectativa que reflejan sus ojos, que espera que le comunique el secreto que poseo; mas no puede

the stars often disappeared in the light of the morning

Créeme, Frankenstein: yo era bondadoso. La humanidad y el amor de mi alma iluminaban todo mi ser, pero ¿acaso no estoy ahora solo, miserablemente solo??

The street lamps glowed like ripe oranges among the bare boughs. Below in the wet street their globes glimmered down and down, to drown in their own reflections.

while at the same time insisting that the pursuit of illumination remain within the limits of the shariah. Conservative and dismissive of scientific rationality, it was Al-Ghazali more than anyone else who made Sufism respectable.