Illumination Quotes - Page 5

• I have found, beauty is the illumination of the mind.

  John J. Geddes

  Beauty, Mind, Found

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The first step to the knowledge of the wonder and mystery of life is the recognition of the monstrous nature of the earthly human realm as well as its glory, the realization that this is just how it is and that it cannot and will not be changed. Those who think they know how the universe could have been had they created it, without pain, without sorrow, without time, without death, are unfit for illumination.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Time, Pain

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• In the dark I rest, unready for the light which dawns day after day, eager to be shared. Black silk, shelter me. I need more of the night before I open eyes and heart to illumination. I must still grow in the dark like a root not ready, not ready at all.

  Denise Levertov

  Heart, Eye, Dark

  Denise Levertov (1993). “Evening Train”, p.41, New Directions Publishing

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• The union of the mind and intuition which brings about illumination, and the development which the Sufis seek, is based upon love.

  Idries Shah

  Intuition, Mind, Development

  Idries Shah (1999). “The Sufis”, p.129, Octagon Press Ltd

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• Intuitive knowledge is an illumination of the soul, whereby it beholds in the light of God those things which it pleases Him to reveal to us by a direct impression of divine clearness.

  Rene Descartes

  Light, Soul, Intuition

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• The ordinances do not impart eternal life to the believer, but they do confirm, strengthen, and heighten our awareness and enjoyment of that life. The bread and wine are means or instruments by which God quickens us to apprehend, understand, visualize, and experience the sanctifying influence of the Holy Spirit and his unique ministry of shining the light of illumination and glory on Jesus.

  Sam Storms

  Jesus, Wine, Mean

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• Faith is not belief, it is the grasp on the Ultimate, an illumination.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Faith, Belief, Ultimate

  Swami Vivekananda, Swami Adiswarananda (2006). “Vivekananda, World Teacher: His Teachings on the Spiritual Unity of Humankind”, p.213, SkyLight Paths Publishing

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• I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.

  Boethius

  Wisdom, Answers, Knows

  Boethius, Aeterna Press (2016). “Boethius Collection [2 Books]”, p.26, Aeterna Press

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• We talk of sunshine and moonshine, but not of cloud-shine, which is yet one of the illuminations of our skies. A shining cloud is one of the most majestic of all secondary lights.

  Alice Meynell

  Sunshine, Clouds, Light

  Alice Meynell (2013). “The Essential Alice Meynell Collection”, p.277, eBookIt.com

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• By persistent and sustained practice, anyone and everyone can make the yoga journey and reach the goal of illumination and freedom.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Yoga, Journey, Practice

  B.K.S. Iyengar, John J. Evans, Douglas Abrams (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.9, Rodale

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• Jacqueline Carey has created a postmodern fable of enormous scope and force. Santa Olivia is at once a cautionary tale of people caught in a web of lies and creeping terror, and a love song to the beauty and power of being different. At the novel's heart is the kind of grace Carey is known for: an illumination of the strength that lies hidden inside all of us.

  Eric Van Lustbader

  Song, Lying, Heart

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• We must keep in mind that where the road is crooked, God makes it straight, and where our hearts are wounded, God makes us whole. As we open our hearts in purity and simplicity, admitting to God that we are completely powerless in the area of our problem, His illumination redeems us.

  Marianne Williamson

  Heart, Simplicity, Mind

  Marianne Williamson (1994). “Illuminata: A Return to Prayer”, Riverhead Trade (Paperbacks)

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• One of the leading uses of photography by the mass media came to be called photojournalism. From the late 'twenties' to the early 'fifties' what might have been the golden age of this speciality - photographers worked largely as the possessors of special and arcane skills, like the ancient priests who practiced and monopolized the skills of pictography or carving or manuscript illumination. In those halcyon days the photographer enjoyed a privileged status.

  John Szarkowski

  Photography, Media, Skills

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• In early life I had felt a strong desire to devote myself to the experimental study of nature; and, happening to see a glass containing some camphor, portions of which had been caused to condense in very beautiful crystals on the illuminated side, I was induced to read everything I could obtain respecting the chemical and mechanical influences of light, adhesion, and capillary attraction.

  John William Draper

  Beautiful, Nature, Strong

  John William Draper (1973). “Scientific memoirs, being experimental contributions to a knowledge of radiant energy”, Ayer Co Pub

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• I believe such illumination comes if you're open to the surprises the universe throws at you. You must be able to let go of the past, whatever success you may have seen, whatever your comfort, whatever your habits. To me, that's the key to loving life: Enabling yourself to step bravely into the unknown. Only there will you find yourself again.

  Juliette Binoche

  Letting Go, Believe, Past

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• We can find meaning and reward by serving some higher purpose than ourselves, a shining purpose, the illumination of a Thousand Points of Light...We all have something to give.

  George H. W. Bush

  Light, Giving, Shining

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