Quotes About Illumination

Lighting is an essential way to change the mood of a room, especially if you can use dimmers.

To me, lighting really sets the mood for a room. A 40 watt bulb in a cheap lamp is the same as a 40 watt bulb in an expensive one.

I'm really fascinated by the moon.

A Je'daii needs darkness and light, shadow and illumination, because without the two there can be no balance. Veer to Bogan, and Ashla feels too constraining, too pure; edge toward Ashla, and Bogan becomes a monstrous myth. A Je'daii without balance between both is no Je'daii at all. He, or she, is simply lost.

The full moon - the mandala of the sky.

We approach the divine by enlarging our souls and lighting up our brains.

Difficulties illuminate existence, but they must be fresh and of high quality.

Poetry is nothing more than an intensification or illumination of common objects and everyday events until they shine with their singular nature, until we can experience their power, until we can follow their steps in the dance, until we can discern what parts they play in the Great Order of Love. How is this done? By fucking around with the syntax.

Christ said that illumination is found only by putting everything one has in jeopardy. Thou, of all humans, should understand the courage that is required to reject the secure blessings of society in order to woo the unpredictable ecstasies of the solitary soul. It is true that Christ had little enthusiasm for dance or copulation, that he took 'right' and 'wrong' too seriously and set himself apart from the natural world

POETRY IS NOTHING more than an intensification or illumination of common objects and everyday events until they shine with their singular nature, until we can experience their power, until we can follow their steps in the dance, until we can discern what parts they play in the Great Order of Love. How is this done? By fucking around with syntax.

If God didn't prefer for us to drink at night, he wouldn't have made neon!

I've begun to picture my abdominal cavity occupied instead by a single glowing globe

There is light underwater, even at night, but it is a far cry from the lights that we all know and love... the light by which the reaper reads his list.

POETRY IS NOTHING more than an intensification or illumination of common objects and everyday events until they shine with their singular nature, until we can experience their power, until we can follow their steps in the dance, until we can discern what parts they play in the Great Order of Love.

I don't wait to be struck by lightning and don't need certain slants of light in order to write.

Seeing our world through technology's eyes has, for me, illuminated its larger purpose. And recognizing what it wants has reduced much of my own conflict in deciding where to place myself in its embrace. This book is my report on what technology wants. My hope is that it will help others find their own way to optimize technology's blessings and minimize its costs.

If awareness and conscious thought are seen as a part of life - not its master nor its opponent but an illumination of the developing process within the individual - then our total life can be the unified and unifying experience that is characteristic in nature.

By night the skyscraper looms in the smoke and the stars and has a soul.

Pois o amor resgata a pobreza, vence o tédio, ilumina o dia e instaura em nossa natureza a imperecível alegria.

stifle forever; lower your weapon and look into the clear bright

Each word is a boat, a small saving thing in this increasingly dark, blood-drenched dream.

God gave us minds and he means for us to use them. We need to know God better, so we won't be trying to trust a stranger when the lights go out and we're in a spiritual free-fall.

Go toward the light always, be without ships.

Souls were webs of light that contained the essence of a human's life.