Quotes by Illumination [A]ll knowledge is one. When a light brightens and illuminates a corner of a room, it adds to the general illumination of the entire room. Over and over again, scientific discoveries have provided answers to problems that had no apparent connection with the phenomena that gave rise to the discovery. Isaac Asimov illuminationlightdiscovery The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline. Jacob Bronowski illuminationlightmean After an interval of two and a half centuries, the tradition of mystic illumination renewed itself in Italy and Germany. James Mark Baldwin illuminationgermanytwo The book was in her lap; she had read no further. The power to change one’s life comes from a paragraph, a lone remark. The lines that penetrate us are slender, like the flukes that live in river water and enter the bodies of swimmers. She was excited, filled with strength. The polished sentences had arrived, it seemed, like so many other things, at just the right time. How can we imagine what our lives should be without the illumination of the lives of others? James Salter illuminationriversbook Tantric Zen leads to illumination and fun right here and now, which is why I like it. Frederick Lenz illuminationbuddhismfun 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. Jean-Jacques Rousseau illuminationsoulheart "With any major decision there are cautions and considerations to make, but once there has been illumination, beware the temptation to retreat from a good thing. If it was right when you prayed about it and trusted it and lived for it, it ...is right now. Don't give up when the pressure mounts. Certainly don't go to that being who is bent on your destruction of your happiness. Face your doubts. Master your fears. 'Cast not away therefore your confidence.' Stay the course and see the beauty of life unfold for you. Jeffrey R. Holland illuminationdont-give-upgiving-up This afternoon, I've arranged for this ceremony to be illuminated by solar power. Jimmy Carter ceremonyafternoonillumination It will be celebrated... with pomp and parade... bonfires and illuminations from one end of this continent to the other. John Adams paradesillumination4th-of-july Tasteful illumination of the night, Bright scattered, twinkling star of spangled earth. John Clare illuminationstarsnight serene illumination, or just sitting, is not a technique, or a means to some resulting higher state of consciousness, or any particular state of being. Just sitting, one simply meets the immediate present. Desiring some flashy experience, or anything more or other than 'this' is mere worldly vanity and craving. John Daido Loori illuminationvanitymean I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth. John Adams illuminationpatriotic4th-of-july Where the light is brightest, the shadows are deepest. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe illuminationshadowlight I have found, beauty is the illumination of the mind. John J. Geddes illuminationmindbeauty A glimmer of light is better than no illumination at all. John James Cowperthwaite illuminationlight For a servant of God to have authority in every sentence he utters, he must first suffer for the message he is to deliver. Without great tribulation, there is no great illumination. John Sung illuminationservant-of-godsuffering Journaling is a way to be a good steward of the Spirit's illuminations. John Piper illuminationspiritway One of the leading uses of photography by the mass media came to be called photojournalism. From the late 'twenties' to the early 'fifties' what might have been the golden age of this speciality - photographers worked largely as the possessors of special and arcane skills, like the ancient priests who practiced and monopolized the skills of pictography or carving or manuscript illumination. In those halcyon days the photographer enjoyed a privileged status. John Szarkowski illuminationmediaphotography A saving knowledge of Christ crucified and risen is not the mere result of right reasoning about historical facts. It is the result of spiritual illumination to see those facts for what they really are: a revelation of the truth and glory of God in the face of Christ-who is the same yesterday today and forever. John Piper illuminationspiritualyesterday 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. John Updike illuminationfloridalight«12345678»
