Illumination Quotes - Page 8

• 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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• Gnostics can awaken to the real state of Illumination only through the understanding and elimination of dreams.

  Samael Aun Weor

  Dream, Real, Understanding

  Samael Aun Weor (2010). “Dream Yoga”, p.45, Glorian Publishing

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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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• The Gnostic only can wake up to the true state of Illumination by understanding and disintegrating dreams.

  Samael Aun Weor

  Dream, Understanding, Wake Up

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• Sometimes one has simply to endure a period of depression for what it may hold of illumination if one can live through it, attentive to what it exposes or demands.

  May Sarton

  Sad, Depression, Demand

  May Sarton (2014). “Journal of a Solitude”, p.8, Open Road Media

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• In the end, history, especially British history with its succession of thrilling illuminations, should be, as all her most accomplished narrators have promised, not just instruction but pleasure.

  Simon Schama

  History, Narrators, Pleasure

  Simon Schama (2000). “A History of Britain: At the edge of the world? 3000 BC-AD 1603”, Miramax

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• The law of violence is not a law, but a simple fact which can only be a law when it does not meet with protest and opposition. It is like the cold, darkness and weight, which people had to put up with until recently when warmth, illumination and leverage were discovered.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Peace, Simple, Law

  Leo Tolstoy (1987). “A Confession and Other Religious Writings”, p.248, Penguin UK

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• It will be possible, through the detailed determination of amino-acid sequences of hemoglobin molecules and of other molecules too, to obtain much information about the course of the evolutionary process, and to illuminate the question of the origin of species.

  Linus Pauling

  Determination, Science, Information

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• In meditation, silently and serenely, all words are transcended.
  In Illumination, all things appear as is.
  Silence is the ceasing of ego-grasping. Illumination is the functioning of the wonder of wisdom.
  The unity of these two is awakening to Buddha Nature.

  Sheng-yen

  Two, Silence, Meditation

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• Your demons will cause your angels to sing. Use the pain as fuel.

  August Wilson

  Strength, Pain, Angel

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• It appears to me (whether rightly or wrongly) that direct arguments against Christianity and theism produce hardly any effect on the public; and freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men's minds, which follows from the advance of science.

  Charles Darwin

  Atheist, Men, Mind

  "Science and religion need a truce" by Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum, www.theguardian.com. August 24, 2009.

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• Spiritual illumination and perspective are poured out through the windows of heaven and into our lives as we honor the law of tithing.

  David A. Bednar

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Law

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• Watching violence in movies or in TV programs stimulates the spectators to imitate what they see much more than if seen live or on TV news. In movies, violence is filmed with perfect illumination, spectacular scenery, and in slow motion, making it even romantic. However, in the news, the public has a much better perception of how horrible violence can be, and it is used with objectives that do not exist in the movies.

  Steven Spielberg

  Tv News, Perfect, Perception

  Veja magazine interview (Brazil), 1993.

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• Mystics knew how to channel grace through prayer and they knew the power of that. They knew how to receive guidance through reflection and contemplation; they knew how to share the gift of illumination with each other. These are great gifts of life and profound grace that we are capable of providing for each other and the world. This is what it means to be a mystic without a monastery. You make a commitment to your own interior illumination and through that discover the "sacred" part of your "contract" and the true meaning of your highest potential.

  Caroline Myss

  Prayer, Mean, Commitment

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• There are places where it is easy to see, places of illumination, where one moves into illumined states of attention.

  Frederick Lenz

  Moving, Buddhism, Attention

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• Atheism is a system which can communicate neither warmth nor illumination, except from those fagots which your mistaken zeal has lighted up for its destruction.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Atheism, Fagots, Destruction

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.42

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• ... the life of the mind is reality, and love without romantic illumination is a spiritless matter.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Reality, Mind, And Love

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• The wisdom of literature is quite antithetical to having opinions. 'Nothing is my last word about anything,' said Henry James. Furnishing opinions, even correct opinions - whenever asked - cheapens what novelists and poets do best, which is to sponsor reflectiveness, to pursue complexity. Information will never replace illumination.

  Susan Sontag

  Novelists, Literature, Information

  Susan Sontag (2007). “At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches”, p.154, Macmillan

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• There has always been the same amount of light in the world. The new and missing stars, the comets and eclipses, do not affect thegeneral illumination, for only our glasses appreciate them.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Stars, Knowledge, Glasses

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.110, Xist Publishing

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• Conversion by the Holy Spirit is a spiritual illumination of the soul. God's grace lights up the dark heart. And when a man has once been kindled at the cross of Christ, he is bound to shine.

  Theodore L. Cuyler

  Spiritual, Heart, Dark

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 163), 1895.

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• I recently got back from Hiroshima and it was fascinating to me how the Japanese accommodate this paradox. We were talking about this word aware, which on the page looks like "aware," which speaks to both the pain and the beauty of our lives. Being there, what I perceived was that this is a sorrow that is not a grief that one forgets or recovers from, but it is a burning, searing illumination of love for the delicacy and strength of our relations.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Pain, Grief, Talking

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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• The date will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward forever more.

  John Adams

  Sports, 4th Of July, Believe

  Letter to Abigail Adams, 3 July 1776

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• It will be celebrated... with pomp and parade... bonfires and illuminations from one end of this continent to the other.

  John Adams

  4th Of July, Parades, Ends

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• Whether drugs lead to illumination or degradation depends on the spirit in which one takes them

  George Andrews

  Hippie, Addiction, Drug

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• Journaling is a way to be a good steward of the Spirit's illuminations.

  John Piper

  Way, Spirit, Stewards

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