Illumination Quotes - Page 5

• There is a tendency for humans to consciously see what they wish to see. They literally have difficulty seeing things with negative connotations while seeing with increasing ease items that are positive. For example, words that evoke anxiety, either because of an individuals personal history or because of experimental manipulation, require greater illumination before first being perceived.

  Lionel Tiger

  Anxiety, Wish, Ease

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• Through ignorance, through faith, through intelligence, through trickery and cunning, through illumination, the reader rewrites the text with the same words of the original but under another heading, re-creating it, as it were, in the very act of bringing it into being.

  Alberto Manguel

  Ignorance, Creating, Cunning

  "A History of Reading". Book by Alberto Manguel, 1996.

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• If you take from a theory only the conclusions you like and discard the rest, you are using the theory as a drunkard uses a lamp post-for support rather than illumination.

  Greg Mankiw

  Support, Lamps, Use

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• In the temporary illumination of the headlights, the insects were scribbling out messages from God that we couldn't get.

  Heather O'Neill

  Messages, Insects, Headlights

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• Tantric Zen leads to illumination and fun right here and now, which is why I like it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Fun, Buddhism, Here And Now

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• There are many paths to enlightenment. Some of us who have expanded to a degree of illumination have thereafter preached the dogmatic certainty of one particular path. But enlightenment doesn't care how you get there. And if you aren't going to be thinking about it in paradise, then don't worry about it now.

  Thaddeus Golas

  Spiritual, Thinking, Worry

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• Whenever I get lost in a novel I just throw a poem in. What it does is flare up, and it's so illuminated that I'm able to see where to go. I write between these illuminations.

  Kate Braverman

  Writing, Flare Up, Poetry

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• When we want culture more than potatoes, and illumination more than sugar-plums, then the great resources of a world are taxed anddrawn out, and the result, or staple production, is, not slaves, nor operatives, but men,--those rare fruits called heroes, saints, poets, philosophers, and redeemers.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Philosophical, Hero, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2000). “Walden and Other Writings: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.774, Modern Library

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• Good action and thoughts produce consequences which tend to neutralize, or put a stop to, the result of evil thoughts and actions. For as we give up the life of self (and note that, like forgiveness, repentance and humility are also special cases of giving), as we abandon what the German mystics called "the I, me, mine," we make ourselves progressively capable of receiving grace. By grace we are enabled to know reality more completely, and this knowledge of reality helps us to give up more of the life of selfhood - and so on, in a mounting spiral of illumination and regeneration.

  Aldous Huxley

  Giving Up, Humility, Reality

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• I share with many people the feeling that there is a sweetness and constancy to light that falls into a studio from the north sky that sets it beyond any other illumination. It is a light of such penetrating clarity that even a simple object lying by chance in such a light takes on an inner glow, almost a voluptuousness.

  Irving Penn

  Lying, Fall, Simple

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• RAW is very forgiving. I was photographing a farm woman in Ecuador cooking over a small fire and my fill flash didn't go off a few times. I was about to delete the RAW files but decided to play with the curves first because I like the composition. It turned out that the image, although underexposed by two stops, was better than the fill-flashed images because the fire was the only source of illumination and it looked more real.

  Peter Menzel

  Real, Fire, Curves

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• A man of distinguished, beautiful eloquence, and persistent, over pressing thought... Ameen Rihani was one of the foremost pioneers of modern illumination. He firmly believed in the significance of reviving the Arab spirit and protecting the freedom of thought and the freedom of human conscience.

  Mikhail Naimy

  Beautiful, Men, Pioneers

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• There's a much deeper knowing and deeper intelligence in
  this place. This is where I began the journey of listening to that inner wisdom. We've all had those aha moments. In yoga it's called prajna - a flash of illumination. I heard that voice.

  Brad Willis

  Yoga, Journey, Voice

  "Warrior Pose: A Conversation with Bhava Ram". Interview with Zoë Kors, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• We've got the latest dump by WikiLeaks talking about what this really means in terms of Donald Trump's narrative of pay-for-play, so we've got the State Dept. and the FBI on defense saying this is not really an illumination of anything, how can Hillary Clinton and her team get in front of this?

  Thomas Roberts

  Team, Mean, Talking

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Once you can open yourself to joy, you feel as if you've transformed your sadness into illumination, which is really all that art is. All we want to do is transform the negative emotions into light. We want to compost them into light.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Art, Sadness, Light

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Politicians use statistics in the same way that a drunk uses lamp-postsfor support rather than illumination.

  Andrew Lang

  Drunk, Support, Lamps

  1910 Speech. Quoted in Alan L Mackay The Harvest of a Quiet Eye (1977).

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• Making a film, you're in a really dark tunnel and the only kind of illumination is the shared experience you're having with your fellow cast and director.

  Colin Farrell

  Dark, Tunnels, Directors

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Through sex, mankind may attain the great spiritual illumination which will transform the world, which will light up the only path to earthly paradise.

  Margaret Sanger

  Spiritual, Sex, Light

  Margaret Sanger, Michael W. Perry, H. G. Wells (2003). “The Pivot of Civilization in Historical Perspective: The Birth Control Classic”, p.406, Inkling Books

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• The earth, in fair and grateful exchange, pays back to the moon an illumination similar to that which it receives from her throughout nearly all the darkest gloom of the night.

  Galileo Galilei

  Grateful, Moon, Night

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• You are unique, and there may be incidents in your experience that are more noble and praiseworthy in their way than those recorded in any other life. There may be a flash of illumination here and a story of faithfulness there; you should truthfully record your real self and not what other people may see in you.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Real, Unique, Self

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• But man's eyes are blind through sin, and he can discern no part of God's truth till the Spirit opens them. Inner illumination, leading directly as it does to a deep, inescapable conviction, is thus fundamental to the Spirit's work as a teacher.

  J. I. Packer

  Teacher, Eye, Men

  J. I. Packer (1958). “"Fundamentalism" and the Word of God”, p.118, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• We do not understand and then obey: that is instruction. We obey by faith, and then we understand: that is illumination.

  Warren W. Wiersbe

  Instruction

  Warren W. Wiersbe (2015). “Heirs of the King: Living the Beatitudes”, p.135, Discovery House

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• Understanding the past requires pretending that you don't know the present. It requires feeling its own pressure on your pulses without any ex post facto illumination.

  Paul Fussell

  Past, Understanding, Feelings

  Paul Fussell (1990). “Thank God for the Atom Bomb, and Other Essays”

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• There is no other book so various as the Bible, nor one so full of concentrated wisdom. Whether it be of law, business, morals...he who seeks for guidance...may look inside its covers and find illumination...

  Herbert Hoover

  Book, Law, Looks

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