Quotes About Illumination

What about the passages where Scripture appears to be contradictory or those difficult matters we discover in our reading? One suggestion for our reading at these points is to rest in what we do know, trusting God (perhaps through others) to illumine us concerning what we don't know.

I can't let in the light.It will destroy my performance like light destroys film

Dogen tells us to "cease practice based on intellectual understanding, pursuing words and following after speech, and learn the backward step that turns your light inwardly to illuminate yourself.

The book was in her lap; she had read no further. The power to change one's life comes from a paragraph, a lone remark. The lines that penetrate us are slender, like the flukes that live in river water and enter the bodies of swimmers. She was excited, filled with strength. The polished sentences had arrived, it seemed, like so many other things, at just the right time. How can we imagine what our lives should be without the illumination of the lives of others?

There is no danger where there is light

There are two kinds of light — the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.

There are two kinds of light -- the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures.

There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.

morning light can make the most vulgar things tolerable.

He had never seen a gunshot wound. He kept asking what if felt like? dull or sharp? an ache or a burn? My head was spinning and naturally I could give him no kind of coherent answer but I remember thinking dimly that it was sort of like the first time I got drunk, or slept with a girl; not quite what one expected, really, but once it happened it couldn't be any other way. Neon lights: Motel 6, Dairy Queen. Colors so bright, they nearly broke my heart.

You know, sometimes there's a light at the table, like a visible halo, and you're it, you know? You're the light?

Tuve la revelación de que la risa era luz, y la luz risa, y que ese era el secreto del universo.

At any rate, this was the weekend that things started to change, that the dark gaps between the street lamps begin to grow smaller, and smaller, and farther apart, the first sign that one's train is approaching familiar territory, and will soon be passing through the well-known, well-lighted streets of town.

The light was only just visible - except of course that there was no one to see, no witnesses, not this time, but it was nevertheless a light.

The daylight shouldered its way in like a squad of policemen and did a lot of what's-all-thising around the room

Eventually the last rays of the sun vanished completely, and he turned. His face was still illuminated from somewhere, and when Arthur looked for the source of the light he saw that a few yards away stood a small craft of some kind—a small Hovercraft, Arthur guessed. It shed a dim pool of light around it.

The protruding upper halves of the letters now appear, in the local language, to read "Go stick your head in a pig," and are no longer illuminated, except at times of special celebration.

Trempé jusqu'aux os, il restait interdit sur le bas-côté de la route, lorsqu'un nouvel éclair déchira le ciel et l'illumina, lui laissant une fraction de seconde pour déchiffrer le message inscrit sur l'autocollant fixé à l'arrière de la machine avant que celle-ci ne disparaisse. Il en resta bouche bée, n'en croyant pas ses yeux. Il venait de lire : Mon autre voiture est aussi une Porsche.

Long after his death his poems were found and wondered over. News of them spread like morning sunlight. For centuries they illuminated and watered the lives of many people whose lives might otherwise have been darker and dryer. Then

There were times when I felt there were a thousand doors in my head, and I needed to open all of them to find the one important door. The one important key that would open it. And whatever was behind that door would somehow illuminate what I didn't understand about my life. In the meantime, I had to open those thousand doors and see what wonderful and dreadful beasts existed there, waiting for me.

And when you do find this letter, you know what? Something extraordinary will happen. It will be like a reverse solar eclipse - the sun will start shining down in the middle of night, imagine that!

In the distance he could see the Cape May lighthouse winking, one short, one long.

Information is like electricity; it powers the light that allows us to see our way forward.

At first it seems as if begoing follows becoming. But look even closer and you will see that there are only flashes of lightning illuminating the empty sky.