Illumination Quotes
When we illuminate the road back to our ancestors, they have a way of reaching out, of manifesting themselves...sometimes even physically.
Even the sun directs our gaze away from itself and to the life illumined by it.
Islam is a way of life which opens the heart to the meaning of existence. Thus any increase of outward splendor is usually a sign of a decrease in inward illumination
A philosophical thought has probably not attained all its sharpness and all its illumination until it is expressed in French.
One function of the angels is illumination, and the other function is that of being a guardian.
After an interval of two and a half centuries, the tradition of mystic illumination renewed itself in Italy and Germany.
It is as if my heart and my brain did not belong to the same person. Feelings come quicker than lightning and fill my soul, but they bring me no illumination; they burn me and dazzle me.
In search of love and music My whole life has been Illumination Corruption And diving, diving, diving, diving, Diving down to pick up every shiny thing
I cannot resist making the observation that some people use statistics as a drunk uses a lamppost - more to lean on than for illumination.
Politicians use statistics in the same way that a drunk uses lamp-postsfor support rather than illumination.
I have suckled the wolf's lip of anger and I have used it for illumination, laughter, protection, fire in places where there was no light, no food, no sisters, no quarter.
Whether drugs lead to illumination or degradation depends on the spirit in which one takes them
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.
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.
Mankind have such a deep stake in inward illumination, that there is much to be said by the hermit or monk in defence of his life of thought and prayer.
Creationists use facts the same way a drunk uses a lightpost: for support instead of illumination
Can you imagine the hopelessness of trying to live a spiritual life when you’re secretly looking up at the skies not for illumination or direction, but to gauge, miserably, the odds of rain?
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.
... the life of the mind is reality, and love without romantic illumination is a spiritless matter.
There are places where it is easy to see, places of illumination, where one moves into illumined states of attention.
Tantric Zen leads to illumination and fun right here and now, which is why I like it.
If we immerse ourselves in the ultimate good, we will have this silly smile on our face or perhaps just inside our hearts. That is what illumination is.
The Florida sun seems not much a single thing overhead but a set of klieg lights that pursue you everywhere with an even white illumination.
I get obsessed with decorations and decorating the house. I keep it tasteful outside, but when you get inside it is a bit like Blackpool illuminations, I go bonkers!
Yes, all my illusions will burn into illumination of joy, and all my desires ripen into fruits of love.
The Gnostic only can wake up to the true state of Illumination by understanding and disintegrating dreams.
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.
I'm not turned away from the church through anger, although I have criticisms of it. It's through finding affirmation of life and illumination of life through creativity and art.
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.
Find the light within you through meditation and introspection, and you will illuminate your life from within.
Darkness should never be an excuse to quit, for with God, darkness is the exact stuff that light was built for.
If you are really angry, then you must be willing to pay the price of being alone or be remanded for someone else to have their freedom, illumination and justice.
Knowledge without Truth is information without illumination and its all like icing without cake, can be sweet, but it ends up making you sick.
The universe is a gigantic amusement park in which we can have a ride or two.
Spirituality is the realization of the totality of our being.
