Quotes About Illumination

Readers, professional or casual, are alert to passages in a book that illuminate what was previously shadowy and formless.

If a ray of light falls into a pigsty, it is the ray that shows us the muck and it is the ray that is offensive.

Let us throw away our candles and our torches. Let us flood the cities with light. Let us bring a new light to men! -Equality 7-2521

I turned on the flashlight; it cut a small circle of light from the darkness around me.

In almost every spiritual prototype we have to go through hell on our way to pure awareness, indistinguishable from unconditional love, the Pure Land of our illuminated nature. For some, that process of awakening and "enlightening" is the experience the Taoists call "self ablaze.

Just as the sun by itself illuminates the entire world, so the field owner illumines everything in the field.

Three lights should be fine. - Zachary Aye, well if it wis me, I'd want a bloody lighthoose beacon comin' oot o' my arse. - True MacDonald

A] book is not merely a book, it is the sun as well.

Ignorance is like a black hole that sucks everything into it, even illumination. Thus we can't see it, at least not directly.

I'm imagining that paper books will evolve to become something akin to candles we have them in our homes and cherish their light but don't light our homes with them. Readers of Lincoln's era would likely be surprised at how well-lit our homes are and I think it's likely that we will be surprised at how well-read future book readers will be.

The Matisse seemed to respond to the decreasing light by increasing its own wattage. Every object in the room was drained of color, but the Matisse stood firm in the de-escalating illumination, its beauty turning functionality inside out, making itself a more practical and useful presence than anything else in sight.

Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants.

Se suele decir que la luz del sol es el mejor de los desinfectantes.»

Almost sixteen weeks after I'd woken up on the bedroom floor, the lightbulb box arrived.

If you worked for an hour at the average wage of 1800, you could buy yourself ten minutes of artificial light. With kerosene in 1880, the same hour of work would give you three hours of reading at night. Today, you can buy three hundred days of artificial light with an hour of wages. Something extraordinary obviously happened between the days of tallow candles or kerosene lamps and today's illuminated wonderland. That something was the electric lightbulb.

if your great-great-great-grandfather wanted to read his book after dark, some poor soul had to crawl around in a whale's head for an afternoon.

I wonder about silence. Also about darkness. I love the idea that city lights are a "conspiracy" against higher thoughts.

How does light enter a house? If the windows are open. How does light enter a human? If the door of love is open.

Our journey on the path is personal and well lit with the Savior's love.

The union of the mind and intuition which brings about illumination, and the development which the Sufis seek, is based upon love.

In search of love and music my whole life has been Illumination Corruption And diving, diving, diving, diving down To pick up on every shiny thing

Yo he visto en la noche oscura llover sobre mi cabeza los rayos de lumbra pura de la divina belleza.

In one of the Scriptures we read: Under a banyan tree sat a youthful teacher and beside him an aged disciple. The mind of the disciple was full of doubts and questions, but although the teacher continued silent, gradually every doubt vanished from the disciple's mind. This signifies that the conveying of spiritual teaching does not depend upon words only. It is the life, the illumination, which counts.

The moon shows the truth of things.