Quotes About Illumination

We may say, roughly, that a mathematical idea is 'significant' if it can be connected, in a natural and illuminating way, with a large complex of other mathematical ideas. Thus a serious mathematical theorem, a theorem which connects significant ideas, is likely to lead to important advances in mathematics itself and even in other sciences.

The garden is a world filled with secrets. Slowly, I see more each day. The black pines twist and turn to form graceful shapes, while the moss is a carpet of green that invites you to sit by the pond. Even the stone lanterns, which dimly light the way at night, allow you to see only so much.

The evening is come; rise up, ye youths. Vesper from Olympus now at last is just raising his long-looked-for light.

I am not all knowing. Therefore, I will not even attempt to be. I need to be loved. Therefore, I will be open to loving children. I want to be more accepting of the child in me. Therefore, I will with wonder and awe allow children to illuminate my world.

Sometimes it is easier to see the light when you stand partly in the darkness.

Can you find light by analyzing darkness, as the psychotherapist does, or like the theologian, by acknowledging darkness in yourself and looking for a distant light to remove it, while emphasizing the distance?

I drank that sentence and began to glow.

It looks like the whole city is made out of stars.

9My passion is to enlighten every person to this divine mystery.

You can wait only so long for a blackened window to be illuminated.

Seek for illumination of self, and then the world, through the simple, humble, almighty, supreme virtue of love.

To-morrow, in the natural sun, the skies will be bright; those who glared like devils in the forking flames, the morn will show in far other, at least gentler, relief; the glorious, golden, glad sun, the only true lamp—all others but liars!

The intensest light of reason and revelation combined, cannot shed such blazonings upon the deeper truths in a man, as will sometimes proceed from his own profoundest gloom. Utter darkness is then his light, and cat-like he distinctly sees all objects through a medium which is mere blindness to common vision.

While thus employed, the heavy pewter lamp suspended in chains over his head, continually rocked with the motion of the ship, and for ever threw shifting gleams and shadows of lines upon his wrinkled brow, till it almost seemed that while he himself was marking out lines and courses on the wrinkled charts, some invisible pencil was also tracing lines and courses upon the deeply marked chart of his forehead.

I saw long rows of angels in paradise, each with his hands in a jar of spermaceti.

Tiktai tada mane ap?m? tikroji vienat?, ne užm?rytoji, netikroji, kuriai tamsu tarp sien? ir dar tamsiau už j?, o didžioji vienatv?, kuri yra šviesi kaip sodas be tvoros...

Religiously conceived, the human opportunity is to transform flashes of illumination into abiding light.

Daylight seemed then to be the physical manifestation of common sense.

We were the only customers downstairs in the shop and there were no windows and only two dim bulbs, without shades. There was a pleasant soporific smell, as though the books had stolen most of the air.

When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it.

The generous wish to share with all what is precious, to spread broadcast priceless truths, to shut out none from the illumination of true knowledge, has resulted in a zeal without discretion that has vulgarised Christianity, and has presented its teachings in a form that often repels the heart and alienates the intellect.

The truth of faith is a slender, glowing element that runs through even the seemingly ordinary and undramatic moments of existence. Even at low intensity, it is a steady source of illumination. Such religious truth is powerful even when it seems faint, even when it seems obscured by the larger events of history.

The person who takes the banal and ordinary and illuminates it in a new way can terrify. We do not want our ideas changed.

Lifes light. Life is light. You can make light do anything you want to. Photography means 'light writing'.