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Quotes About Illumination

You are the candle, love is the light, enlighten the mind, and heart with your empowering light.
~ Debasish Mridha
Pursuit of truth, not success, is the ultimate purpose of an illuminated life.
~ Debasish Mridha
Let us give thanks for our shadowsfor they are there in the first placebecause of the presence of light.
~ Kamand Kojouri
Have you ever noticed how hard it is to find a shadow in the night? I guess that's why so many people are so obsessed with the idea of bringing things to the light…to the clear, so to speak.
~ Eiry Nieves, The Shadowlands
?Through ignorance a common man considers his own religion to be the best and makes much useless claims, but when his mind is illuminated by Self-Knowledge, all sectarian quarrels disappear.
~ Abhijit Naskar
I wanted the light to be the revelation. It has to do with what we value. I want people to treasure light.
~ James Turrell
When we're born, we want to know why the stars shine. We want to know why the sun rises.
~ Michio Kaku
have the Holy Spirit. I have the Spirit's wonderful work of illumination. I don't need commentaries; I don't need to rely on the thoughts of others. I can go right to the source. To that objection, Spurgeon replied, "It seems odd, that certain men who talk so much of what the Holy Spirit reveals to themselves, should
~ Stephen J. Nichols
If God is your Father, you can count on the Holy Spirit to open your eyes and illumine His truth. He will burn it into your heart as you read the Bible, ingrain it into your thinking, live it out in obedience, and let Him continually keep you aligned with ultimate reality.
~ Stephen Kendrick
During their personal interview, Exman asked Schweitzer about mysticism. He was particularly interested in how intellectual puzzles that have vexed our ordinary minds for years can be answered "in a flash of illumination, after we had ceased to struggle with our thoughts." Schweitzer replied, "All deep thinking ends in mysticism," before arguing that mystical experiences are surprisingly common, by no means confined to "the privilege of a few.
~ Stephen Prothero
A man can learn much, but learning is not knowledge. The only true source of infallible certainity is divine illumination.
~ Stephen R Lawhead
The only true source of infallible certainty is divine illumination.
~ Stephen R. Lawhead
Clouds don't matter much at night-time. It's only when there's a sun for them to cover that the world falls dark.
~ Steve Mosby
often you want keep the light on the actors and darken the upper part of the wall above them).
~ Steven Ascher
In general, using a brighter, harder light from a greater distance away from the action will result in more even illumination than a softer unit closer to the subject.
~ Steven Ascher
Illumination is the process of perpetual self-development by the struggle and achievement of short and long-term goals. Illumination is the precise realization that identifying your goals magically, attaining knowledge which is applied towards the force of your Will. This act of Will Power is the act of compelling, transforming and focusing energy to achieve a determined goal.
~ Michael W. Ford
People and their dwellings were such a thin dust on the surface of the globe, like invisible specks of bacteria on an orange, and the feeble lights of kebab shops and supermarkets failed utterly to register on the infinities of space above.
~ Michel Faber
Not for the first time, Peter thought about how much of our lives we spend sequestered inside small patches of electric brightness, blind to everything beyond the reach of those fragile bulbs.
~ Michel Faber
On peut presque tout faire sans lumière sauf écrire. Ecrire demande des lueurs. Vivre se suffit d'ombre, lire exige la clarté. Fast alles kann man ohne Licht tun, außer Schreiben. Zum Schreiben ist Licht nötig. Zum Leben genügt Dunkelheit; Lesen braucht Helligkeit.
~ Michel Serres
Miró al cielo de nuevo y se dio cuenta de que no son las estrellas las que crean la luz, sino que es la luz la que crea las estrellas.
~ Miguel Ruiz
it's not the stars that create light, but rather light that creates the stars.
~ Miguel Ruiz
For how can we condemn something that is ephemeral, in transit? In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine.
~ Milan Kundera
Jealousy has the amazing power to illuminate a single person in an intense beam of light, keeping the multitude of others in total darkness.
~ Milan Kundera
Seeing is limited by two borders: Strong light, which blinds, and total darkness.
~ Milan Kundera