Quotes About Illumination

I study and practice Zen Buddhism because I experience it as illuminating and liberating. I remain personally engaged with this tradition because I continue to experience it as capable of leading me to truth and liberation, rather than, for example, because it is the tradition that I happen to have been raised in or the one that is most socially convenient for me to adhere to.

Norocul e un lucru care apare în mai multe forme. Cone poate s? îl recunoasc?? TotuÈ™i aÈ™ lua un pic, în orice form? ar fi, È™i aÈ™ pl?ti cât mi s-ar cere. AÈ™ vrea s? v?d luminile lic?rind.

It is little enough we know and the rest is darkness.

Knowledge does not come to us by details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.

When we want culture more than potatoes, and illumination more than sugar-plums, then the great resources of a world are taxed and drawn out, and the result, or staple production, is, not slaves, nor operatives, but men- those rare fruits called heroes, saints, poets, philosophers, and redeemers.

He fairly glittered in the gloom.

in the August night and the perspective of Beacon

The light was in her eyes.

The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

For God's sake, be economical with your lamps and candles! not a gallon you burn, but at least one drop of man's blood was spilled for it.

There is the idea that, when we look at things, it is the yellow light that helps us the most, that we are the most sensitive for. But our circadian rhythms, which are the rhythms that help us to wake and sleep and be alert and relaxed and so forth and so on, they are much more triggered by blue light.

There is no greater mystery to me than that of light traveling through darkness.

I want people to treasure light.

When there's light shining on a tree, that tree takes on different meaning. If there's no light at all it just looks dead. If you look at light as godly meaning, the world comes alive in a certain way.

I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself.

You know the way trees break through the canopy in the rainforest and they go from having this tiny column of light to having all this light - the Internet is kind of like that.

You have to be transparent so you no longer cast a shadow but instead let the light pass through you.

Everything that is, casts a shadow

Knowledge without Truth is information without illumination and its all like icing without cake, can be sweet, but it ends up making you sick.

When GOD opens a door and it looks dark on the inside. Don't fret. You are forgetting one thing: you are light and only when you go in does it light up.

Be as bright as the sun then spread your light all over the world.

For an illuminated life, give yourself up for the service of others.

In the darkness, be the light.