Quotes by Illumination This is the great object held out by this association; and the means of attaining it is illumination, enlightening the understanding by the sun of reason which will dispell the clouds of superstition and of prejudice. Adam Weishaupt illuminationcloudsmean It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done, if every man were placed in the office for which he was fitted by nature and a proper education, which first suggested to me the plan of Illumination. Adam Weishaupt illuminationeducationmen To understand a Bible text it takes an act of the Holy Spirit equal to the act that inspired the text in the first place. A revelation of the Holy Spirit in one glorious flash of inward illumination would teach you more of Jesus than five years in a theological seminary. Aiden Wilson Tozer illuminationyearsjesus Through ignorance, through faith, through intelligence, through trickery and cunning, through illumination, the reader rewrites the text with the same words of the original but under another heading, re-creating it, as it were, in the very act of bringing it into being. Alberto Manguel illuminationcreatingignorance What would you not have accomplished if you had been free?" "Possibly nothing at all; the overflow of my brain would probably, in a state of freedom, have evaporated in a thousand follies; misfortune is needed to bring to light the treasures of the human intellect. Compression is needed to explode gunpowder. Captivity has brought my mental faculties to a focus; and you are well aware that from the collision of clouds electricity is produced — from electricity, lightning, from lightning, illumination. Alexandre Dumas illuminationlightclouds I cannot resist making the observation that some people use statistics as a drunk uses a lamppost - more to lean on than for illumination. Alfred E. Perlman illuminationdrunkpeople The rainbow is elusive, and its colors but the illumination of tears. Alice Dunbar Nelson illuminationcolorsky The prime objective of all Initiatory music in the Temples of Antiquity was to bring about physical purification and renewal, mental stimulation and alertness, spiritual exhilaration and Illumination. Ambrose illuminationinspirationspiritual Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvelous. I want to be a writer who reminds others that these moments exist; I want to prove that there is infinite space, infinite meaning, infinite dimension. But I am not always in what I call a state of grace. I have days of illuminations and fevers. I have days when the music in my head stops. Then I mend socks, prune trees, can fruits, polish furniture. But while I am doing this I feel I am not living. Anais Nin illuminationspacetree There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic. Anais Nin illuminationtimelife Politicians use statistics in the same way that a drunk uses lamp-postsfor support rather than illumination. Andrew Lang illuminationdrunksupport The generous wish to share with all what is precious, to spread broadcast priceless truths, to shut out none from the illumination of true knowledge, has resulted in a zeal without discretion that has vulgarised Christianity, and has presented its teachings in a form that often repels the heart and alienates the intellect. Annie Besant illuminationteachingheart The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live, and upon the changes which we hope to bring about through those lives. It is within this light that we form those ideas by which we pursue our magic and make it realized. This is poetry as illumination, for it is through poetry that we give name to those ideas which are, until the poem, nameless and formless-about to be birthed, but already felt. Audre Lorde illuminationlightnames Use the pain as fuel, as a reminder of your strength. August Wilson illuminationpainstrength Don't hate the arising of thoughts or stop the thoughts that do arise. Simply realize that our original mind, right from the start, is beyond thought, so that no matter what, you never get involved with thoughts. Illuminate original mind, and no other understanding is necessary. Bankei Yotaku illuminationhatethinking There are five stages of meditation, each one leading gradually into the next: concentration, meditation, contemplation, illumination, and inspiration. Benjamin Creme illuminationmeditationinspiration We forget just how painfully dim the world was before electricity. A candle, a good candle, provides barely a hundredth of the illumination of a single 100 watt light bulb. Bill Bryson illuminationlightworld By persistent and sustained practice, anyone and everyone can make the yoga journey and reach the goal of illumination and freedom. B.K.S. Iyengar illuminationyogajourney I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it. Boethius illuminationwisdomanswers There's a much deeper knowing and deeper intelligence in Brad Willis illuminationyogajourney12345678»
