Quotes About Illumination

But the moon doesn't say what it knows.

A beam of light sweeps down through the skylight in the roof and makes him look like the chosen one, which I often suspect he just might be. In that deep place where I believe almost nothing, I am tempted to believe that - a light, irritating tickle of belief.

Why must you illuminate these cases, where enslaved people are not depicted in a dehumanized and stereotypical way? It's rare and exceptional." "Well, professor. You have answered for me. Because it is rare and exceptional.

I was amazed and upset by the looks I got just walking around the studio... It illuminates the ugliness and the beauty that exists within each of us, and that's what this story represents to me.

All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.

we should strive to grow consciousness itself — to generate bigger, brighter lights in an otherwise dark universe.

M'Illumino D'Immenso - I flood myself with the light of the immense.

In the beginning there was nothing, and then God created light. There was still nothing but you could see it a lot better.

He let in the light.

illuminated where I stood so I could better see myself and the world around me, and then he took that light and held it out so I could see the footholds and ledges I would need to reclaim a productive life.

I like books that glow in their own literary light — on a dark shelf, surrounded by a cloud of glistering stardust.

It is an absolute fact that shadows are as much colours as lights are...

A millennium without air or light pollution made for pitch-black skies. The stars didn't just appear anymore. They exploded. Diamonds on black velvet. You couldn't tear your eyes away.

a sea of artificial lights has extinguished the stars and drowned the nights

the lights of a distant city seem star-like and pretty but move closer into sight they engulf the whole night

Era piombato nelle tenebre. E nel momento stesso in cui lo seppe, smise di sapere.

It was illumination, a great light in the darkness of his ignorance, and he read poetry more avidly than ever.

If her soul were a room, it was as if a light were now shinning in a corner that had been dark.

There is no way to the acquirement of spiritual power except by that inward illumination and enlightenment which is the realization of spiritual principles; and those principles can only be realized by constant practice and application.

And Man is Mind, and evermore he takes. The Tool of thought, and, shaping what he wills, Brings forth a thousand joys, a thousand ills;- He thinks in secret, and it comes to pass: Environment is but his looking-glass.

The questions which one asks oneself begin, at last, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others. One can only face in others what one can face in oneself. On this confrontation depends the measure of our wisdom and compassion. This energy is all that one finds in the rubble of vanished civilizations, and the only hope for ours.

Observing that, from this height, the city which had been so dark as he walked through it seemed to be on fire.

I think people underestimate the importance of lighting - layers of lighting, not just one light. I do a lighting seminar where I take a $300-a-yard fabric and a $3-a-yard fabric. I show what lighting can do to either one.

As I understand it, laws, commands, rules and edicts are for those who have not the light which makres plain the pathway.