Quotes About Illumination

I remember him standing under a streetlamp. 'Just as we passed that other lamp I was going to tell you a further thing, Sal, but now I am parenthetically continuing with a new thought and by the time we reach the next I'll return to the original subject, agreed?' I certainly agreed.

Growth is life, and life is for ever destined to make for light.

The California tract houses are like the mundane meeting the mystical. Sometimes if you're driving at twilight, and you see those houses, and they're starting to light up, there's something so beautiful, so ethereal about the fact that they're all pretty similar, set against this desert landscape and the light just hitting them a certain way.

Flashlight beams danced crazily

Dear friend, Your heart is a polished mirror. You must wipe it dean of the veil of dust that has gathered upon it, because it is destined to reflect the light of divine secrets.

As one lamp serves to dispel a thousand years of darkness, so one flash of wisdom destroys ten thousand years of ignorance.

Just like the car headlights impressively illuminating the dark streets, wisdom words powerfully enlighten the dark minds!

A ray of imagination or of wisdom may enlighten the universe, and glow into remotest centuries.

Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely.

How bright and transparent the moonlight of wisdom.

The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.

I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.

... but the greatest wisdom is blinded by the glare of vanity.

Islam is a way of life which opens the heart to the meaning of existence. Thus any increase of outward splendor is usually a sign of a decrease in inward illumination

The Empire of Wisdom is the only empire on which the sun never sets!

He who can become mad with an idea, he alone sees light.

But a light now waxed within him at the knowledge that such wonders as he had been shown could exist.

I want to write because I have the urge to excel in one medium of translation and expression of life. I can't be satisfied with the colossal job of merely living. Oh, no, I must order life in sonnets and sestinas and provide a verbal reflector for my 60-watt lighted head.

There is no light.. for those who do not know darkness.. Live on and endure the shadows, Takezo.. And brightness shall come your way.

Here, the first light spreads across the fields like something holy is happening, striking sparks off a million dewdrops and turning the spiderwebs on the hedge to rainbows; mist curls off the grass, and the first calls of birds and sheep seem to arc effortless miles.

Hillalum said nothing. For the first time, he knew night for what it was: the shadow of the earth itself, cast against the sky.

since I already know it would work, and it wouldn't illuminate any new gestalts.

For the first time, he knew night for what it was: the shadow of the earth itself, cast against the sky. After

For the first time, he knew night for what it was: the shadow of the earth itself, cast against the sky. —