Quotes About Illumination

The old lamps down Chartres Street like burning gauze in the fog.

Down there the nights are bright and nobody believes in the Devil.

There was only this one lamp-post. Behind was the great scoop of darkness, as if all the night were there.

There was a glimmer of nightly rabbits across the ground.

Put the lights out, we shall see better.

Like the sun illuminating and refreshing the world, this sitting removes obscurities from the mind and lightens the body so that exhaustion is set aside.

In the fields with which we are concerned, knowledge comes only in flashes. The text is the thunder rolling long afterward.

Reside en una iluminación profana, en una inspiración materialista, antropológica, para la que el hachís, el opio, o lo que sea, puede representar la escuela preparatoria.

The front of the white lectern has a slight blue tinge, since it is lit mainly by the refracted light of the sky rather than the yellowish direct glow of the setting sun.59 "Shadows will vary," Leonardo explained in his notebooks. "The side of an object that receives a reflected light from the azure of the air will be tinged with that hue, and this is particularly observable in white objects. That side that receives the light from the sun will partake of that color.

Study of light hitting a head.

Scared is the lamp that lights the way.

Not only do you become what you think about, but the world also becomes what you think about. Those who think that the world is a dark place are blind to the light that might illuminate their lives. Those who see the light of the world view the dark spots as merely potential light.

As your thinking changes from a position dictated by your ego to one that transcends it, you'll see an illuminated world that is truly inviting.

We are living indeed in the period of the Second Coming if that phrase can be said to signify the dawning of Cosmic illumination within human consciousness, permeating life processes throughout their myriad manifestations.

Proper lighting is everything, Julianna.

Maybe it's time to meet him in the proper light.

There is absolutely no such thing as reading but by a candle. We have tried the affectation of a book at noon-day in gardens, and in sultry arbours, but it was labor thrown away. Those gay motes in the beam come about you, hovering and teasing, like so many coquets, that will have you all to their self, and are jealous of your abstractions. By the midnight taper, the writers digests his meditations. By the same light we must approach to their perusal, if we would catch the flame, the odour.

In the dark to see, you ass-scratchers! In the dark to see.

Because then I might have known whether the light's in the sun or the sun's in the light.

If you don't shine you are darkness. from "Tomorrow

He looked out at the dark of night seeking rumors of the moon.

Colors of the summer sun illuminate the meadow. Gold, the massed gold of hawkweed; the burnished gold of black-eyed Susans; the delicate, demure gold of stargrass, cousin of the daffodil; and the sun's very rays captured by the field's wild sunflowers.

The stars are the street lights of eternity.

Nothing is as evanescent in history as the pansophic theories that flourish among the illuminati of all times under the bright sunlight of the latest scientific discoveries; and nothing can be more easily dismissed by later periods as mere speculation.