Illumination Quotes

• Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.

  August Wilson

  Inspirational, Strength, Forgiveness

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• Your intelligence is a fire that can illuminate any darkness. Awaken and let your mind burn so brightly! You are alive for a reason!

  Bryant H. McGill

  Fire, Darkness, Mind

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• There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.

  James Thurber

  Inspirational, Life, Light

  "Lanterns and Lances‎". Book by James Thurber, p. 146, 1961.

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• Listen my love, illumination is eternal. Now is always evolving. As there are billions of stars, there are billions of steps. As there are billions of souls, there are billions of ways to grow.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• Where the light is brightest, the shadows are deepest.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Light, Shadow

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• Just as one candle lights another and can light thousands of other candles, so one heart illuminates another heart and can illuminate thousands of other hearts.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Inspirational, Heart, Light

  "A Calendar of Wisdom" by Leo Tolstoy, translated by P. Sekirin, (November 26), 1997.

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• If you want to experience eternal illumination, put the past and the future out of your mind and remain within the present moment.

  Elif Safak

  Past, Mind, Want

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• There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.

  Anais Nin

  Life, Time, People

  Diary entries, 1943.

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• Most new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were always there. A new idea is a light that illuminates presences which simply had no form before the light fell on them.

  Susanne Katherina Langer

  Discovery, Ideas, Light

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• Illumination is nothing if you do not share it with anyone. Illumination is about spreading light across entire nations. It's about wearing that crown that shines like the sun on your head and getting other minds to synergize with yours.

  Suzy Kassem

  Light, Shining, Mind

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• A glimmer of light is better than no illumination at all.

  John James Cowperthwaite

  Light

  Official Report of Proceedings of the Hong Kong Legislative Council (p. 52), February 26, 1964.

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• And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it.

  Adam Weishaupt

  Inspirational, Happiness, Mean

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• The past is an interpretation. The future is on illusion. The world does not move through time as if it were a straight line, proceeding from the past to the future. Instead, time moves through and within us, in endless spirals. Eternity does not mean infinite time, but simply timelessness. If you want to experience eternal illumination, put the past and the future out of your mind and remain within the present moment.

  Shams Tabrizi

  Moving, Mean, Past

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• Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Life, Marriage

  Martin Luther King (Jr.), Alex Ayres (1993). “The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr”, Plume

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• You are the instrument of your own illumination.

  Vivian Gornick

  Instruments

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• People press toward the light not in order to see better but in order to shine better.--We are happy to regard the one before whomwe shine as light.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Light, Order, People

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• History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.

  Lord Acton

  Memories, Soul, Burden

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• Knowledge has three degrees--opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.

  Plotinus

  Knowledge, Mean, Intuition

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• The only church that illuminates is a burning church.

  Buenaventura Durruti

  Funny, Religious, Humorous

  "The Monstrosity of Christ : Paradox or Dialectic?". Book by Creston Davis, 2009.

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• The greatest gift is a passion for reading.

  Elizabeth Hardwick

  Book, Reading, Passion

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• Truth will never come into our minds so long as there will remain the faintest shadow of Ahamkâra (egotism). All of you should try to root out this devil from your heart. Complete self-surrender is the only way to spiritual illumination.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Spiritual, Heart, Self

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• When the other person is hurting, confused, troubled, anxious, alienated, terrified; or when he or she is doubtful of self-worth, uncertain as to identity, then understanding is called for. The gentle and sensitive companionship of an empathic stance… provides illumination and healing. In such situations deep understanding is, I believe, the most precious gift one can give to another.

  Carl Rogers

  Hurt, Confused, Believe

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• Regrets are illuminations come too late.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Regret, Hero Journey

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.101, New World Library

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• The rainbow is elusive, and its colors but the illumination of tears.

  Alice Dunbar Nelson

  Color, Sky, Rainbow

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