Top 212 Illumination Quotes & Sayings

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

We all have a tendency to use research as a drunkard uses a lamppost – for support, not for illumination.

Painters who are not colorists produce illumination, not painting.

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

Illumination by the Spirit is the endless end of every virtue.

What are the sources of an illumination? To me, they come after hours of searching and keeping my soul ready. Yet they come in a flash, as a religious phenomenon. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter had such an illumination, beginning my long search for the truth of the story and flashing light into the long two years ahead.

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

The sun cares nothing for illumination.

If you want to experience eternal illumination, put the past and the future out of your mind and remain within the present moment.

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.

Creationists use facts the same way a drunk uses a lightpost: for support instead of illumination

You are the instrument of your own illumination.

After an interval of two and a half centuries, the tradition of mystic illumination renewed itself in Italy and Germany.

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?

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.

I think for everybody reading can be a solace, illumination, education.

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

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

He uses statistics like a drunk uses lamp-posts, more for support than illumination.

History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.

Tantric Zen leads to illumination and fun right here and now, which is why I like it.

The earth, in fair and grateful exchange, pays back to the moon an illumination similar to that which it receives from her throughout nearly all the darkest gloom of the night.

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

The seeds of Illumination's origin sprang from an idea lead singer Philip Bailey had of collaborating with new generation of soul artists for his next solo album. The idea of illumination is vibrant and positive. Earth Wind Fire collaborating with the new soul movement made sense because the thrust of their music is still about playing instruments and utilizing vintage sounds, only in today's setting.

Madness, and then illumination.

Illumination is nothing if you do not share it with anyone. Illumination is about spreading light across entire nations. It's about wearing that crown that shines like the sun on your head and getting other minds to synergize with yours.

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

A glimmer of light is better than no illumination at all.

Fact creates norms, and truth illumination.

He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp posts - for support rather than for illumination.

Real art is illumination, it adds stature to life.

A philosophical thought has probably not attained all its sharpness and all its illumination until it is expressed in French.

Seek for illumination of self, and then the world, through the simple, humble, almighty, supreme virtue of love.

One of the outcomes of a Spirit-filled life is a new illumination to understand God's Word.

The way upward from inertia to illumination passes through the sphere of action.

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

Yes, all my illusions will burn into illumination of joy, and all my desires ripen into fruits of love.

Most striking at first is the appearance of sudden illumination, a manifest sign of long unconscious prior work.

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.

Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men’s minds which follows from the advance of science.

The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.

One function of the angels is illumination, and the other function is that of being a guardian.

When light engages the heart, it causes an illumination of the path, a purification of the consciousness, an enlightenment of the intellect and an establishment of the foundations of dhikr and shukr and of beautiful worship.

Even in the darkest of times we have the right to expect some illumination, and ... such illumination may well come less from theories and concepts than from the uncertain, flickering, and often weak light that some men and women, in their lives and their works, will kindle under almost all circumstances and shed over the time-span that was given them on earth.

I'm trying to find these rare moments where you feel completely illuminated. Facts never illuminate you. The phone directory of Manhattan doesn't illuminate you, although it has factually correct entries, millions of them. But these rare moments of illumination that you find when you read a great poem, you instantly know. You instantly feel this spark of illumination. You are almost stepping outside of yourself and you see something sublime.

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.

Tasteful illumination of the night, Bright scattered, twinkling star of spangled earth.

Politicians use statistics in the same way that a drunk uses lamp-postsfor support rather than illumination.

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.

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

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 departure from the world is regarded not as a fault, but as the first step into that noble path at the remotest turn of which illumination is to be won.

In the temporary illumination of the headlights, the insects were scribbling out messages from God that we couldn't get.

Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination.

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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.

The rainbow is elusive, and its colors but the illumination of tears.

I cannot resist making the observation that some people use statistics as a drunk uses a lamppost - more to lean on than for illumination.

There is no consolation for anyone in the Scott Peterson story, and no final illumination.

Knowledge has three degrees--opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.