Quotes About Illumination

In a world where there were no specifically mental facts, is it not plain that there would be a complete impartiality, an evenly diffused light, not the central illumination fading away into outer darkness, which is characteristic of objects in relation to a mind?

The intoxicating delight of sudden understanding.

Sometimes in the contrast of the night, we can best see the glory of God.

I feel that buildings often have a workaday aspect that you see during the daylight hours, and a more resplendent side that emerges after dark.

John Cheever was the first writer I ever read who sort of had that similar sensation that, you know, life is nasty, miserable, brutish and short, but that occasionally, there's a certain river of light, a kind word, a telling gesture that sort of illuminates something.

I have electricity in my home, but if I don't plug into it, I don't see the light. I have Jesus in my heart, but if I don't plug into Him daily, I won't see His light either, even though it is there. I have to connect with Him. Talk to Him. Worship Him. Spend time with Him. Bask in His radiance like bathing in the sun. Become so familiar with His illumination of my soul that I immediately recognize any counterfeit.

Knowing the truth liberates us from all possibility of deception and illuminates any darkness in our life.

I wonder if that's the perennial story of writers: you find the true light, you lose the true light, you find it again. And maybe again.

The light came slow and limping, never fully arriving.

An idea suddenly sat in my head, sunning itself

At the centre of the Light there is a cold white flame

It's hard to see people properly,' I said, 'when there's a big shadow blocking the light.

A moon of startling brightness rose over the rooftops, lifted on a divine, invisible thread...

Sam and Elizabeth met as people usually meet. Suddenly, there was a deceptive light in the darkness. A light that blackly reminded the lonely of the darkness.

When darkness hovers over earth And day gives place to night, Then lovers see the Milky Way Gleam mystically bright, And calling it the Way of Love They hail it with delight.

On the avenue, dark and tree-lined, shop windows began to blink on.

Y mira que le gustan las sonrisas de Antonia, con sus diez mil vatios de potencia, su capacidad de iluminar por completo la estancia.

El día empieza a medianoche, en mitad de la oscuridad. Y luego todo es luz.

Él creía conocerla. Y aun cuando no hubiera sido así, ¿acaso no era suficiente saber que era la criatura más querida por él sobre la tierra? Y que además, y esto era lo más importante, le serviría para irse de la vida alumbrándose con aquella imagen que borraría todos los demás recuerdos.

Learn the craft of knowing how to open your heart and to turn on your creativity. There's a light inside of you.

I was content to dwell on the new idea that had come to me that all things and states were just varieties of light, and that in every form, light was the emanation and manifestation of God.

Higher ceilings allow the use indirect lighting, which is much healthier and reduces glare.

If you look at an illuminated manuscript, even today, it just blows your mind. For them, without all the clutter and inputs that we have, it must have been even more extraordinary.

From its brilliancy everything is illuminated.