Illumined Quotes
31 quotes by 30 authors
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Let my love like sunlight surround you and yet give you illumined freedom.
— Rabindranath Tagore
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Surely the memory of an event cannot pass for the event itself. Nor can the anticipation. There is something exceptional, unique, about the present event,…
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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A spiritually illumined soul lives in the world, yet is never contaminated by it.
— Swami Bhaskarananda Saraswati
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The Revelation of the Báb may be likened to the sun, its station corresponding to the first sign of the Zodiac—the sign Aries—which the sun…
— Shoghi Effendi
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Theology is a serious quest for the true knowledge of God, undertaken in response to His self-revelation, illumined by Christian tradition, manifesting a rational inner…
— John Stott
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Who ignores the time walks in darkness, and who explores it is illumined by a great light.
— Moses ibn Ezra
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No one can be saved without divine light. Divine light causes us to begin and to make progress, and it leads us to the summit…
— Angela of Foligno
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Events are the ephemera of history; they pass across its stage like fireflies, hardly glimpsed before they settle back into darkness and as often as…
— Fernand Braudel
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His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language.
— Oscar Wilde
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The lights of some people precede their dhikr, while the dhikr of some people precede their lights. There is the one who does (loud) dhikr…
— Ibn Ata Allah
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If love and agreement are manifest in a single family, that family will advance, become illumined and spiritual.
— Abdu'l-Bahá
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You can claim that God is guiding you and revealing to you the answer or solution to your problem. Accept the truth that the nature…
— David Allen
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If the mind is open the individual will soon perceive the preciousness of a truth which initially appeared rather dull to him but now is…
— Watchman Nee
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg is the most liberal and illumined of the nine Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court.
— Donna Leon
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The highest level of prayer is not a prayer for anything. It is a deep and profound silence, in which we allow ourselves to be…
— Marianne Williamson
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The vivacity and brightness of colors in a landscape will never bear any comparison with a landscape in nature when it is illumined by the…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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Today is the great day of one of the revelations of this world. The interrelationships of these individual realms were illumined as by a flash…
— Wassily Kandinsky
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When a sunbeam falls on a transparent substance, the substance itself becomes brilliant, and radiates light from itself. So too Spirit bearing souls, illumined by…
— Saint Basil
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Even the sun directs our gaze away from itself and to the life illumined by it.
— Eberhard Arnold
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God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives…
— Dag Hammarskjold
Who Wrote These Illumined Quotes
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