serene illumination, or just sitting, is not a technique, or a means to some resulting higher state of consciousness, or any particular… — John Daido Loori Copy Share Image
Once you can open yourself to joy, you feel as if you've transformed your sadness into illumination, which is really all that… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Atheism is a system which can communicate neither warmth nor illumination, except from those fagots which your mistaken zeal has lighted up… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
When we want culture more than potatoes, and illumination more than sugar-plums, then the great resources of a world are taxed anddrawn… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Pilgrimages of mind or walking meditation - bringing moments of illumination in which the sense of relationship to the rest of existence… — David Fontana Copy Share Image
Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
The ordinances do not impart eternal life to the believer, but they do confirm, strengthen, and heighten our awareness and enjoyment of… — Sam Storms Copy Share Image
When you are in church, it's always good to carry a pen and notepad to jot down the scripture text, reference scriptures,… — Monica Johnson Copy Share Image
Gas Lights - Without Oil, Tallow, Wicks or Smoke. It is not necessary to invite attention to the gas lights by which… — Rembrandt Peale Copy Share Image
Good action and thoughts produce consequences which tend to neutralize, or put a stop to, the result of evil thoughts and actions.… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“As it is with spiritual discoveries and affections given at first conversion, so it is in all subsequent illuminations and affections of… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
I'm trying to find these rare moments where you feel completely illuminated. Facts never illuminate you. The phone directory of Manhattan doesn't… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
The wisdom of literature is quite antithetical to having opinions. 'Nothing is my last word about anything,' said Henry James. Furnishing opinions,… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
He uses statistics like a drunk uses lamp-posts, more for support than illumination. — Romano Prodi Copy Share Image
The union of the mind and intuition which brings about illumination, and the development which the Sufis seek, is based upon love. — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
There are five stages of meditation, each one leading gradually into the next: concentration, meditation, contemplation, illumination, and inspiration. — Benjamin Creme Copy Share Image
“To be myself (I note) I need the illumination of other people’s eyes, and therefore cannot be entirely sure what is my… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Phases of the creative process: Preparation-gathering impressions Incubation-letting go of certainties Immersion/Illumination-creative intervention/risk Revision-conscious structuring and editing of creative material. — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
During the Middle Ages they understood that words accompanied by imagery are much more memorable. By making the margins of a book… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
“Beauty loves contradiction. Beauty is born of desire. And without beauty, there is nothing. Beauty is our keeper, our master, our reason.… — Thomas Lloyd Qualls Copy Share Image
The law of violence is not a law, but a simple fact which can only be a law when it does not… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I'd love to be remembered as a character actor who brought illumination to roles in wonderful plays and who delivered performances that… — David Suchet Copy Share Image
To understand a Bible text it takes an act of the Holy Spirit equal to the act that inspired the text in… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
The Self is the heart, self-luminous. Illumination arises from the heart and reaches the brain, which is the seat of the mind.… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
What is the meaning of life? That was all- a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
In meditation, silently and serenely, all words are transcended. In Illumination, all things appear as is. Silence is the ceasing of ego-grasping.… — Sheng-yen Copy Share Image
Illumination is nothing if you do not share it with anyone. Illumination is about spreading light across entire nations. It's about wearing… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Islam is a way of life which opens the heart to the meaning of existence. Thus any increase of outward splendor is… — Ahmad Thomson Copy Share Image
“Just as a prism refracts light differently when you change its angle, each experience of love illuminates love in new ways, drawing… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
The word suffering is full and whole and perfect as a pierced heart, sweet, rushing and tender ... Suffering is the joy… — Lydia Millet Copy Share Image
If you like to read, sometimes it's interesting just to go and see what the reality is, of the word, of the… — Harold Brodkey Copy Share Image
Pray to God with tears in your eyes whenever you want illumination or find yourself faced with any doubt or difficulty. The… — Sarada Devi Copy Share Image
I sincerely believe that there is a time in life for drifting. There is a time for sitting back and getting in… — Rudolfo Anaya Copy Share Image
It appears to me (whether rightly or wrongly) that direct arguments against Christianity and theism produce hardly any effect on the public;… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Listen my love, illumination is eternal. Now is always evolving. As there are billions of stars, there are billions of steps. As… — Rumi Copy Share Image
This is the great object held out by this association; and the means of attaining it is illumination, enlightening the understanding by… — Adam Weishaupt Copy Share Image
Whenever I get lost in a novel I just throw a poem in. What it does is flare up, and it's so… — Kate Braverman Copy Share Image
Love for family and friends, great as it may be, is much more profound when anchored in the love of Jesus Christ.… — Russell M. Nelson Copy Share Image
It had become clear to me, in a flash of illumination, that for me the only possible goal was psychiatry. Here alone… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
In the spiritual world there are no time divisions such as the past, present and future; for they have contracted themselves into… — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
