Luminous Quotes

• It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us.

  Norman Maclean

  Friendship, Elude Us, Elude You

  Norman Maclean (2009). “A River Runs Through It and Other Stories, Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition”, p.104, University of Chicago Press

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• Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size, do you? Hmm? Hmm. And well you should not. For my ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is.

  Leigh Brackett

  Powerful, Judging, Allies

  "Fictional character: Yoda". "Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back", 1980.

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• For, in life, it is in the darkest zones one finds the brightest beauty and the most luminous wisdom.

  Adam Gidwitz

  Zone

  Adam Gidwitz (2010). “A Tale Dark and Grimm”, p.9, Penguin

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• A luminous body will appear more brilliant in proportion as it is surrounded by deeper shadow.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Shadow, Body, Brilliant

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.105, GENERAL PRESS

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• Never forget your real identity. You are a luminous conscious stardust being forged in the crucible of cosmic fire.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Real, Fire

  Twitter post from Jan 16, 2012

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• Keep going; never stop; sit tight; Read something luminous at night.

  Edmund Wilson

  Night, Keep Going

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• To me, life, for all its privations, is a luminous thing. You have to risk it.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Risk, Risk It

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• You yourself may not be luminous, but you are a conductor of light.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Light, May, Hounds

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• The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul.

  Isadora Duncan

  Music, Dance, Soul

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• Merge your consciousness with that of a luminous being ... and then from there to eternity.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Consciousness, Eternity

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• Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

  Virginia Woolf

  Life, Halos, Lamps

  1919 'Modern Fiction'.

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• Enlightenment consists not merely in the seeing of luminous shapes and visions, but in making the darkness visible. The latter procedure is more difficult and therefore, unpopular.

  Carl Jung

  Darkness, Vision, Enlightenment

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• Breath by breath, let go of fear, expectation, anger, regret, cravings, frustration, fatigue. Let go of the need for approval. Let go of old judgments and opinions. Die to all that, and fly free. Soar in the freedom of desirelessness. Let go. Let Be. See through everything and be free, complete, luminous, at home -- at ease.

  Surya Das

  Letting Go, Regret, Home

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• Confidence is the willingness to be as ridiculous, luminous, intelligent, and kind as you really are, without embarrassment.

  Susan Piver

  Confidence, Being Yourself, Buddhist

  "What is True Confidence?" by Susan Piver, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 19, 2010.

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• You look at a star for two reasons, because it is luminous, and because it is impenetrable. You have beside you a sweeter radiance and a greater mystery, woman.

  Victor Hugo

  Stars, Two, Looks

  Victor Hugo (2016). “Les Misérables”, p.1098, My Ebook Publishing House

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• Silence emerges from the sound of rain and spreads in a crescendo of gray monotony over the narrow street I contemplate. I’m sleeping while awake, standing by the window, leaning against it as against everything. I search in myself for the sensations I feel before these falling threads of darkly luminous water that stand out from the grimy building facades and especially from the open windows. And I don’t know what I feel or what I want to feel. I don’t know what to think or where I am.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Rain, Fall, Sleep

  Fernando Pessoa (2002). “The Book of Disquiet”, p.63, Penguin UK

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• PICTURE OF LIGHT is luminous and genuinely transcendent.

  Gerald Peary

  Light, Transcendent

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• Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare. Let all who prate of Beauty hold their peace, And lay them prone upon the earth and cease To ponder on themselves, the while they stare At nothing, intricately drawn nowhere In shapes of shifting lineage; let geese Gabble and hiss, but heroes seek release From dusty bondage into luminous air. O blinding hour, O holy, terrible day, When first the shaft into his vision shone Of light anatomized! Euclid alone Has looked on Beauty bare. Fortunate they Who, though once only and then but far away, Have heard her massive sandal set on stone.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Peace, Hero, Air

  "Euclid Alone Has Looked on Beauty Bare" l. 11 (1923)

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• My aim in painting is to create pulsating, luminous, and open surfaces that emanate a mystic light, in accordance with my deepest insight into the experience of life and nature.

  Hans Hofmann

  Light, Energy, Painting

  "The Artist's Voice: Talks with Seventeen Artists". Book by Katharine Kuh, p. 128, 1962.

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• Once upon a time, I thought faeries lived only in books, old folktales, and the past. That was before they burst upon my life as vibrant, luminous beings, permeating my art and my everyday existence, causing glorious havoc.

  Brian Froud

  Art, Book, Past

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• The candles burned The moon went down The polished hill The milky town Transparent, weightless, luminous Uncovering the two of us On that fundamental ground Where love's unwilled, unleashed, unbound And half the perfect world is found.

  Leonard Cohen

  Moon, Two, Perfect

  Leonard Cohen (2008). “Book of Longing”, p.226, McClelland & Stewart

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• At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear.

  Norman Maclean

  Elude You, Elude Us, Sunrise

  Norman Maclean, Barry Moser (1989). “A River Runs Through It”, p.45, University of Chicago Press

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• As I became aware that all things have unique spatial and temporal qualities which visually define and relate them, I began to perceive the things I was photographing not as objects but as events. Working to develop my skills of perceiving and symbolizing these event qualities, I discovered the principle of opposites. When, for example, I photographed the smooth, luminous body of a woman behind a dirty cobwebbed window, I found that the qualities of each event were enhanced and the universal forces which they manifested were more powerfully evoked.

  Wynn Bullock

  Photography, Dirty, Unique

  Wynn Bullock, Barbara Bullock-Wilson (1984). “Wynn Bullock, photographing the nude: the beginnings of a quest for meaning”, Gibbs Smith

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• Strange to say, the luminous world is the invisible world; the luminous world is that which we do not see. Our eyes of flesh see only night.

  Victor Hugo

  Eye, Night, World

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• All great literature has an uncreeded and luminous theology behind it... Art [is] a form of active prayer.

  Melissa Pritchard

  Art, Prayer, Literature

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