Quotes About Illumination

We need some great failures. Especially we ever-successful Americans - conscious, intelligent, illuminating failures.

the night of thought is the light of perception.

Here we part from the "nature mystics," the mystic poets, and all who shared in and were contented with the illuminated vision of reality. Those who go on are the great and strong spirits, who do not seek to know, but are driven to be.

Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

And so the space Of my still consciousness Is full of gilded snow, The which, no cat has eyes enough To see the brightness of. — Ezra Pound, from "Middle-Aged," Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, 1912–22 . Edited by Harriet Monroe. (Chicago, 1912–22)

The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

The book should be a ball of light in one's hand. Guide to Kulchur.

Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.

A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.

Hay almas a las que uno tiene ganas de asomarse, como una ventana llena de sol.

The hero is the one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by. The saint is the man who walks through the dark paths of the world, himself a light.

Nous entendons par unités brillantes, les rencontres, les unissons qui donnent à la civilisation européenne, sur le plan le plus élevé de la culture, du goût et de l'esprit, une allure fraternelle, presque uniforme, comme si elle était envahie par une seule et même lumière.

Learn about the light and science. The magic will happen.

Good pictures require more than good lighting.

It seems only yesterday that I used to believe there was nothing under my skin but light. If you cut me I would shine. But now when I fall upon the sidewalks of life, I skin my knees. I bleed.

Christians are to be "the light of the world" [Matthew 5:14], illuminating the darkness caused by sin and giving guidance to a world that has lost its way.

The Holy Spirit illuminates the minds of people, makes us yearn for God, and takes spiritual truth and makes it understandable to us.

As I looked outside I noticed a street light crowded by moths. But as soon as that light went off, the moths fled in search of light (they seemed inseparable). Apparently, insects (moths) that are attracted to light know something we don't ~ go figure.

For hundreds of years, their recorded writings—whether nuns or poets, inspired teachers or artists—have described a division, or painful restlessness, within themselves prior to a moment of illumination when a great light or descent of grace fell upon them.

Franz Kafka observed that "the truth is always an abyss. One must—as in a swimming pool—dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday experience and sink into the depths, in order later to rise again—laughing and fighting for breath—to the now doubly illuminated surface of things.

The light of morning decomposes everything.

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

A certain something, he felt, had managed to work its way in through a tiny opening and was trying to fill a blank space inside him. The void was not one that she had made. It had always been there inside him. She had merely managed to shine a special light on it.