Quotes About Illumination

He could see. And he walked along, feeling the joy of a man who sees, a joy that a man tends to forget in sufficient light.

I have thrown away my lantern, and I can see the dark.

In a darkened world no longer illuminated by the light of this center [God], technical advances are scarcely more than despairing attempts to make Hell a more agreeable place to live in. This must be particularly emphasized against those who think that by spreading the civilization of science and technology even to the uttermost ends of the earth, they can furnish all the essential preconditions for a golden age. One cannot escape the Devil so easily as that.

We're here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark.

The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void in our spiritual nature that has remained unknown to us till she appeared.

tenait, une vive clarté rejaillissait sur ses

life means for us constantly to transform into light and flame all that we are or meet with";1

God, so long worshipp'd, departs as a lamp / Without oil.

When I was little there was a picture in one of our books, a dark place into which a single weak ray of light came slanting upon two faces lifted out of the shadow.

Lo que hace la literatura es lo mismo que una cerilla en medio de un campo en mitad de la noche. Una cerilla no ilumina apenas nada, pero nos permite ver cuánta oscuridad hay a su alrededor.

El que fa la literatura és el mayeix que un llumí enmig d'un camp en plena nit. Un llumí amb prou feines il·lumina, però ens permet veure quanta foscor hi ha al voltant.

Jobb felÅ'l utcai lámpák sora menetelt...

O que a literatura faz é o mesmo que acender um fósforo no campo no meio da noite. Um fósforo não ilumina nada, mas permite ver quanta escuridão existe ao redor.

Its color was a muted gray-white until a wave reared; then turquoise floodlights seemed to switch on illuminating the wave's guts from the inside.

At night, illuminated by Christmas bulbs, by recycled neon, by torchlight, it possessed a queer medieval energy. By day, seen from a distance, it reminded him of the ruin of England's Brighton Pier, as though viewed through some cracked kaleidoscope of vernacular style.

The water rose further and dressed Simon's coarse hair with brightness. The line of his cheek silvered and the turn of his shoulder became sculptured marble...

Se le facce cambiavano, quando erano illuminate dall'alto o dal basso... cos'era mai una faccia? Che cos'era tutto?

The first public gas streetlight in the United States is lit in Baltimore, Maryland.

The error is needed to set off the truth, much as a dark background is required for exhibiting the brightness of a picture. And

Bellis gasped. Everywhere lights where suspended. Globes of cold illumination like frost moons, with no trace of the sepia of the New Crobuzon's gaslamps. The city glowed in the darkening water like a net full of ghostly lights. The outer edges of the city were low buildings in porous stone and coral.

Moments of insight deliver realizations and transformations.

the darkness is a cresting wave. It sweeps me up out of my body until I float among the stars, those tine bright pores on the sky's skin. If only I could pass through them, I would end up on the other side, the right side, shadowless, perfectly illuminated, beyond the worries of this mundane world

Through the gentle guidance of the teachings from the Great Spiritual Teachers of different religions and the constant steering by the Law of Karma, which manifests as painful and pleasant experiences, the soul inevitably learns the lessons, gains inner strength and spiritually evolves until it achieves illumination, oneness with the Higher Soul, oneness with the Divine Spark and greater oneness with God.

This is the first thing the Holy Spirit does in your life. He brings you God's presence, and when He does, you will no longer be in the dark. The Holy Spirit has a beautiful identity. He is called 'The Angel of God's presence.' He is the One Who brings us the presence of God and makes it real to us.