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• Certein bodies... become luminous when heated. Their luminosity disappears after some time, but the capacity of becoming luminous afresh through heat is restored to them by the action of a spark, and also by the action of radium.

  Marie Curie

  Body, Sparks, Fresh Start

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• If we could learn to live from the level of the soul, we would see that the best most luminous part of ourselves is connected to all the rhythms of the universe. We would truly know ourselves as the miracle-makers we are capable of being.

  Deepak Chopra

  Miracle, Soul, Levels

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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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• In my more lucid moments I know that God is right here, right now; that God is the luminous mystery at the heart of creation and that God is here in the joys and sorrows of the world. And I try to see God in everything and treat all life with reverence.

  Sy Safransky

  Faith, Heart, Joy

  "Beginner's Mind". Interview with Gillian Kendall, thesunmagazine.org. January 2014.

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• I am held by the creator of the world. I am opening, I am unbounded, I am luminous, I am powerful.

  Kenny Loggins

  Inspirational, Powerful, World

  Song: Birth Energy, Album: The Unimaginable Life

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• We come from a dark abyss, we end in a dark abyss, and we call the luminous interval life.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Dark, Ends, Abyss

  Nikos Kazantzakis (2012). “Saviors of God”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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• The morning woods were utterly new. A strong yellow light pooled beneath the trees; my shadow appeared and vanished on the path, since a third of the trees I walked under were still bare, a third spread a luminous haze wherever they grew, and another third blocked the sun with new, whole leaves. The snakes were out - I saw a bright, smashed one on the path - and the butterflies were vaulting and furling about; the phlox was at its peak, and even the evergreens looked greener, newly created and washed.

  Annie Dillard

  Strong, Morning, Butterfly

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• It is a good rule never to see or talk to the man whose words have wrung your heart, or helped it, just as it is wise not to look down too closely at the luminous glow which sometimes shines on your path on a summer night, if you would not see the ugly worm below.

  Rebecca Harding Davis

  Summer, Wise, Heart

  Rebecca Harding Davis (1904). “Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography”, p.88, Vanderbilt University Press

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• To speak about this universal force that will lead us beyond on the last horizon of our known self toward a wiser, more loving, more luminous states of being, we do not need to invent a new language. But we do need to listen to the old, the ancient one, not with our jaded minds, but with our awakened souls.

  Arianna Huffington

  Self, Soul, Mind

  Arianna Huffington (2003). “Fourth Instinct: The Call of the Soul”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• There is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its luminous summits. (Preface to the French edition).

  Karl Marx

  Path, Royal, Chance

  David Harvey, Karl Marx (2010). “A companion to Marx's Capital”, Verso Books

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• Strive each day to make your life purer, richer, and more luminous. You will subtly and imperceptibly lead all of creation heavenward.

  Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov

  Life, Motivational, Heaven

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• Through luminous and erudite readings of the texts, Hasana Sharp shows us how profound and radical is Spinoza's conception of nature and his claim that humans always remain part of nature, acting solely according to the same rules. She demonstrates the political consequences of adopting this perspective through a provocative intervention in contemporary feminist theory, while along the way opening promising avenues for future work in a variety of other fields, such as animal studies and ecology. This is a challenging and important book.

  Michael Hardt

  Book, Reading, Animal

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• Perhaps sunlight had always been luminous, and doorways signs of greater passage than that of one room to another. But she’d not noticed it until now.

  Clive Barker

  Doorways, Rooms, Sunlight

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• let geese
  Gabble and hiss, but heroes seek release
  From dusty bondage into luminous air.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Freedom, Hero, Air

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2003). “Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems”, p.81, Library of America

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• The mind is pure and luminous by nature. It is defiled only by adventitious thoughts and emotions

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Mind, Emotion

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• Nowledge which... transcends the bounds, the prejudices and prejudgements of any one society and culture is not an illusion but, on the contrary, a glorious and luminous reality. Just how it was achieved remains subject to debate.

  Ernest Gellner

  Reality, Prejudice, Culture

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• Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter.

  George Lucas

  Change, War, Growth

  The Empire Strikes Back (motion picture) (1980).

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• I'm not prepared for Rue's family. Her parents, whose faces are still fresh with sorrow. Her fiver younger siblings, who resemble her so closely. The slight builds, the luminous brown eyes. They form a flock of small dark birds.

  Suzanne Collins

  Sibling, Eye, Dark

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.58, Scholastic Inc.

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• I want to write poems that are natural, luminous, deep, spare. I dream of an art so transparent that you can look through and see the world.

  Stanley Kunitz

  Dream, Art, Writing

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• There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broad as the world.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.66, Penguin

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• Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature
  is ourselves, to be cherished and explored. Shamanism has always known this,
  and shamanism has always, in its most authentic expressions, taught that the
  path required allies. These allies are the hallucinogenic plants and the
  mysterious teaching entities, luminous and transcendental, that reside in that
  nearby dimension of ecstatic beauty and understanding that we have denied until
  it is now nearly too late.

  Terence McKenna

  Teaching, Expression, Understanding

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• Colours change: in the morning light, red shines out bright and clear and the blues merge into their surroundings, melting into the greens; but by the evening the reds loose their piquancy, embracing a quieter tone and shifting toward the blues in the rainbow. Yellow flowers remain bright, and white ones become luminous, shining like ghostly figures against a darkening green background.

  Rosemary Verey

  Change, Morning, Flower

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• Direct observation of the luminous essence of nature is for me indispensable

  Robert Delaunay

  Essence, Observation, Indispensable

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• The same inexpressible Truth is experienced in two ways: as Self-luminous Silence, or as the Eternal Play of the One.

  Anandamayi Ma

  Self, Play, Two

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• The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul. The true dance is an expression of serenity; it is controlled by the profound rhythm of inner emotion. Emotion does not reach the moment of frenzy out of a spurt of action; it broods first, it sleeps like the life in the seed, and it unfolds with a gentle slowness. The Greeks understood the continuing beauty of a movement that mounted, that spread, that ended with a promise of rebirth.

  Isadora Duncan

  Dance, Sleep, Expression

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