Quotes About Illumination

I am a writer. I suppose I think that the highest gift that man has is art, and I am audacious enough to think of myself as an artist - that there is both joy and beauty and illumination and communion between people to be achieved through the dissection of personality.

There are some people who come to me for some illumination on their problems. I guess they feel I'm writing about some of the things they themselves are going through. But I don't usually have much help to give - there isn't much you can say to someone in the midst of their own crises.

I attribute the black tones in my films to Stephen King, Tim Burton, Joe Hill and Richard Matheson. However, most of my writing is influenced by mental health. I'm incredibly passionate about shedding light on the stigmas associated with mental illnesses.

The eye is always drawn to light, but shadows have more to say.

The sun is the biggest metaphor. The sun is the first candle. She can get there by its light.

Nothing that is spiritual can fail to shine. Of course we can't see it directly, because the shadow it casts is just another kind of light. You have to look sideways to see it, but once you see it, you can never un-see it. It is the light you see in the faces of children.

Tout au milieu, et dans le disque meme du soleil, rayonne la face de Jesus-Christ. Antoine fait le signe de la croix et se remet en prieres.

univers venait tout à coup de s'élargir. Elle était le point lumineux où l'ensemble des choses convergeait

Jeanne úgy érezte, lelke kinyílik, a megfoghatatlant érti most; és amint a mezÅ'n szerteszórva ott látta az apró fényeket, hirtelen megvilágosodott benne, mennyire magányos minden ember – hogy minden csak elszakítja, messzire sodorja Å'ket attól, amit szeretnek.

and the grey turned to roseal light edged with gold.

That even in the darkest of times we have the right to expect some illumination, and that such illumination might well come less from theories and concepts than from the uncertain, flickering, and often weak light that some men and women, in their lives and their works, will kindle under almost all circumstances and shed over the time span that was given to them....

Is that what you wanted to hear?" "No." The man reached over, took hold of the lantern, and blew it out. Night enveloped the barn. "Well," he said at last to the darkness between them, "that's when you know it's the truth.

sunlight when Maya exited

Overhead, the two moons worked together to bathe the world in a strange light.

If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.

I say that the power of vision extends through the visual rays to the surface of non-transparent bodies, while the power possessed by these bodies extends to the power of vision.

Just at present you only see the tree by the light of the lamp. I wonder when you would ever see the lamp by the light of the tree.

be the mountain / be the ocean / be the tree / be happy / be the light / be the shadow / be the rain / be you / be

The illuminated life can happen now, in the moments left. Die to your ego, and become a True Human Being.

There is nothing better to display the truth in an excellent light, than a clear and simple statement of facts.

Our human knowledge is a candle burnt On a dim altar to a sun-vast Truth.

The idea came like a flash of lightning and in an instant the truth was revealed.

The truth always turns out to be simpler than you thought.

Do you leave as a ship sailing out of harbour? Do you return as rain to the earth? Will I guide you in the Beyond, if I hold aloft the brightest light here on Earth?