Illumination Quotes

Fact creates norms, and truth illumination.

— Werner Herzog

The sun cares nothing for illumination.

— Mason Cooley

Regrets are illuminations come too late.

— Joseph Campbell

“People are a soul-ego-spacesuit.”

— Stefan Emunds

“Allow sunshine and light into your rooms and life!”

— Bryant McGill

The only church that illuminates is a burning church.

— Buenaventura Durruti

Use the pain as fuel, as a reminder of your strength.

— August Wilson

“Spirituality is 80% attitude and 20% knowledge.”

— Stefan Emunds

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

— Samael Aun Weor

“Illumination is remembering your identity as the eternal spirit and energy that animates all that is.”

— Raphael Zernoff

It will be celebrated... with pomp and parade... bonfires and illuminations from one end of this continent to the other.

— John Adams

“The door of illumination is open to those for whom other doors are closed.”

— Idries Shah

“When you suppress your darkness you also suppress your light.”

— Bryant McGill

An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination.

— Andrew Lang

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

— Fulton J. Sheen

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

— Symeon the New Theologian

There has always been the same amount of light in the world. The new and missing stars, the comets and eclipses, do…

— Henry David Thoreau

“I embrace my shadow self. Shadows give depth and dimension to my life. I believe in embracing my duality, in learning to…

— Jaeda DeWalt

“Our personal stories of perseverance contain immense wisdom that can assist others in finding their way to peace and illumination during difficult…

— Molly Friedenfeld

People press toward the light not in order to see better but in order to shine better.--We are happy to regard the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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

The earth, in fair and grateful exchange, pays back to the moon an illumination similar to that which it receives from her…

— Galileo Galilei

“The “Metaphor is one of thoughts most essential tools. It illuminates what would otherwise be totally obscure. But the illumination is sometimes…

— Alistair Gray

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

Don't hate the arising of thoughts or stop the thoughts that do arise. Simply realize that our original mind, right from the…

— Bankei Yotaku

Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one’s life with pomp and blare, like a gay knight riding down; perhaps it…

— Anonymous

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

The wisdom of literature is quite antithetical to having opinions. 'Nothing is my last word about anything,' said Henry James. Furnishing opinions,…

— Susan Sontag

One reason writers write is out of revenge. Life hurts; certain ideas and experiences hurt; one wants to clarify, to set out…

— Cynthia Ozick

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

What are the sources of an illumination? To me, they come after hours of searching and keeping my soul ready. Yet they…

— Carson McCullers

All my sermons are prepared in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament. As recreation is most pleasant and profitable in the sun,…

— Fulton J. Sheen

“Immortal existence.. Sometimes Living is not such an easy task.. Being here or there.. The spirit is the same.. Only changes the…

— Dave Zebian

Good action and thoughts produce consequences which tend to neutralize, or put a stop to, the result of evil thoughts and actions.…

— Aldous Huxley

“What strikes me now as the most wonderful proof of my fitness, or unfitness, for the times is the fact that nothing…

— Henry Miller

“As it is with spiritual discoveries and affections given at first conversion, so it is in all subsequent illuminations and affections of…

— Jonathan Edwards

“Occasionally, in the stillness of a taxi or an airplane, she would catalog the pleasures she had lost. Cigarettes. Chewing gum. Strong…

— Kevin Brockmeier

“when the illumination did at last come, we felt repaid. It came unexpectedly, of course—things always do, that have been long looked…

— Mark Twain

Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the…

— Anais Nin