Quotes About Illumination

Look deep enough into any person and you will find something shining within. My job was to uncover this and, if the surface is fogged up (which was more than the case), polish it with a cloth to make it shine again. Otherwise the darker side would naturally reveal itself in the portrait.

In the temporary illumination of the headlights, the insects were scribbling out messages from God that we couldn't get.

The sky was the color of lightbulbs that weren't lit.

What we needed was a love that was able to sine a light on who exactly we were, so that we could be people offstage.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

The only lightless dark is the night of ingnorance and insensibility.

The day is ours, and what the day has shown.

It is generally admitted that the most beautiful qualities of a color are in its transparent state, applied over a white ground with the light shining through the color.

One of the great things about working on C. elegans was the fact that it was transparent, and so when I first heard that seminar describing GFP, and realised, 'I work on this transparent animal, this is going to be terrific! I'll be able to see the cells within the living animal.'

In order to make the novel into a polyhistorical illumination of existence, you need to master the technique of ellipsis, the art of condensation. Otherwise, you fall into the trap of endless length.

Be warned things done In the dark cant stay blank forever, cause when the light comes on, you will be sorry!!!

Please, dear God of happiness, show the radiance of your spectrum to our world, which here means to forget everything.

Hekate leads the way with her torches aloft in her capacity as the preceder and follower[252]

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

My meditation Is my mind's Instant ignorance-illumination And Bondage-liberation.

Without the interior light of grace I would have undoubtedly pitied myself, but in the midst of darkness I found myself divinely illumined.

The light of faith makes us see what we believe.

After all, shadows themselves are born of light.

After all, what is 'poetry itself'? Where are its horizons? What draws a reader to 'read' the world and their own self through this particular medium, even if only occasionally? Because it is often on 'occasions'—sacred or ritualised moments, or moments made holy by celebration or grief—that poetry is reached for, its peculiar intensity and compression instinctively demanded. But this is not a separation from life; rather, it is an illumination of it.

What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Sunlight is the best disinfectant.

New constellations of truth are daily discovered in the firmament of knowledge, and new stars are daily shining forth in each constellation.

God is truth and light his shadow.

I am myself: a light. In me you find your fate. So be not blind to the truth shining from my glow.