Illumination Quotes - Page 2

• When we try to make everything clear, we make everything confused. If, however, we admit one mysterious thing in the universe, then everything else becomes clear in the light of that. The sun is so bright, so mysterious, that one cannot look at it, and yet in the light of the sun everything else is seen.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Confused, Light, Mysterious Things

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• Sometimes, a flame can be utterly extinguished. Sometimes, a flame can shrink and waver, but sometimes a flame refuses to go out. It flares up from the faintest ember to illuminate the darkness, to burn in spite of overwhelming odds.

  Karen Hesse

  Hard Times, Odds, Flare Up

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• The information was kept hidden for the same reason we keep matches from children. In the correct hands, fire can provide illumination... but in the wrong hands, fire can be highly destructive.

  Dan Brown

  Children, Fire, Hands

  Dan Brown (2010). “The Lost Symbol Illustrated edition”, p.185, Random House

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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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• If you don't laugh at all, you've missed the point. If you only laugh, you've missed your chance from illumination.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Laughing, Chance, Missed You

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  Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination.

  Vin Scully

  Drunk, Support, Use

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• When light engages the heart, it causes an illumination of the path, a purification of the consciousness, an enlightenment of the intellect and an establishment of the foundations of dhikr and shukr and of beautiful worship.

  Habib Umar bin Hafiz

  Beautiful, Wisdom, Islamic

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• I prefer the gradual path My feeling is that mythic forms reveal themselves gradually in the course of your life if you know what they are and how to pay attention to their emergence. My own initiation into the mythic depths of the unconscious has been through the mind, through the books that surround me in this library. I have recognized in my quest all the stages of the hero's journey. I had my calls to adventure, my guides, demons, and illuminations.

  Joseph Campbell

  Book, Hero, Adventure

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• A person is disposed to an act of choice by an angel ... in two ways. Sometimes, a man's understanding is enlightened by an angel to know what is good, but it is not instructed as to the reason why ... But sometimes he is instructed by angelic illumination, both that this act is good and as to the reason why it is good.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Angel, Men, Two

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• The sun cares nothing for illumination.

  Mason Cooley

  Care, Sun

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• This afternoon, I've arranged for this ceremony to be illuminated by solar power.

  Jimmy Carter

  Afternoon, Ceremony, Solar Power

  United States. President (1977-1981 : Carter), Jimmy Carter (1979). “Jimmy Carter”

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• The greatest gift is a passion for reading.

  Elizabeth Hardwick

  Book, Reading, Passion

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• Soul receives from soul that knowledge, therefore not by book nor from tongue. If knowledge of mysteries come after emptiness of mind, that is illumination of heart.

  Rumi

  Book, Heart, Soul

  Rumi (2014). “'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian”, p.58, Lulu.com

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• [...] Technology has tended to devaluate the traditional vision-inducing materials. The illumination of a city, for example, was once a rare event, reserved for victories and national holidays, for the canonization of saints and the crowning of kings. Now it occurs nightly and celebrates the virtues of gin, cigarettes and toothpaste.

  Aldous Huxley

  Kings, Holiday, Technology

  Aldous Huxley (1956). “Heaven and hell”

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• This is the great object held out by this association; and the means of attaining it is illumination, enlightening the understanding by the sun of reason which will dispell the clouds of superstition and of prejudice.

  Adam Weishaupt

  Mean, Clouds, Understanding

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• If you like to read, sometimes it's interesting just to go and see what the reality is, of the word, of the seedy or not so seedy fiction writer, the drunk or sober poet... Sometimes you can go looking for illumination.

  Harold Brodkey

  Reality, Drunk, Interesting

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• It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done, if every man were placed in the office for which he was fitted by nature and a proper education, which first suggested to me the plan of Illumination.

  Adam Weishaupt

  Education, Men, Office

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• I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.

  John Adams

  4th Of July, Patriotic, America

  John Adams (2004). “The Portable John Adams”, p.214, Penguin

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• The apostles were moved, not so much by an intellectual apprehension, as by a spiritual illumination. They met men, and the need of those men whom they met cried aloud to them.

  Roland Allen

  Spiritual, Men, Intellectual

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• I notice increasing reluctance on the part of marketing executives to use judgment; they are coming to rely too much on research, and they use it as a drunkard uses a lamp post for support, rather than for illumination.

  David Ogilvy

  Support, Marketing, Lamps

  David Ogilvy (1963). “Confessions of an advertising man”, Holiday House

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• An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination.

  Andrew Lang

  Funny, Humorous, Men

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• I don't see it as a form of healing, because if you have wounds that are bleeding I don't think acting will ever get them to stop. But I find acting is a form of illumination.

  Rebecca De Mornay

  Healing, Thinking, Acting

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• The departure from the world is regarded not as a fault, but as the first step into that noble path at the remotest turn of which illumination is to be won.

  Joseph Campbell

  Solitude, Noble, Departure

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.142, New World Library

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• It might sound odd, but I want to thank Michael Bay because hes been saying how important it is to show 3D with the right luminescence. And thats very important for this film, a lot of which was shot at night or with very low illumination.

  David Heyman

  Night, Important, Want

  "'Harry Potter' Finale: Rupert Grint, David Heyman, Phelps Twins Give First Look at CineEurope" by Scott Roxborough, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 30, 2011.

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• serene illumination, or just sitting, is not a technique, or a means to some resulting higher state of consciousness, or any particular state of being. Just sitting, one simply meets the immediate present. Desiring some flashy experience, or anything more or other than 'this' is mere worldly vanity and craving.

  John Daido Loori

  Mean, Vanity, Experience

  John Daido Loori (2010). “The Art of Just Sitting: Essential Writings on the Zen Practice of Shikantaza (Large Print 16pt)”, p.14, ReadHowYouWant.com

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