Luminous Quotes
173 quotes by 135 authors
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The self (Soul) is the constant-witness consciousness. Through all months, seasons and years, through all divisions of time, the past, present and future the consciousness…
— Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
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I am a Jew, but I am enthralled by the luminous figure of the Nazarene. Jesus is too colossal for the pen of phrasemongers, however…
— Albert Einstein
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Words become luminous when the poet's finger has passed over them its phosphorescence.
— Joseph Joubert
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When the mind is full of memories and preoccupied by the future, it misses the freshness of the present moment. In this way, we fail…
— Matthieu Ricard
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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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If you are a meditator, as your meditation goes on becoming more and more luminous, your intelligence will be growing to the last breath of…
— Rajneesh
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Painting is by nature a luminous language.
— Robert Delaunay
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Astronomy, that micography of heaven, is the most magnificent of the sciences. ... Astronomy has its clear side and its luminous side; on its clear…
— Victor Hugo
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In samadhi, in the highest form of meditation, the same thing happens: the mind stops functioning... but you are conscious. That is the only difference,…
— Rajneesh
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Remember, until you become a buddha you have wasted your life. Buddhahood is your flowering, your fragrance. A tree is fulfilled when it blooms, and…
— Rajneesh
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If we could look through the skull into the brain of a consciously thinking person, and if the place of optimal excitability were luminous, then…
— Ivan Pavlov
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Prayer, like radium, is a luminous and self-generating form of energy.
— Alexis Carrel
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It is a good rule never to see or talk to the man whose words have wrung your heart, or helped it, just as it…
— Rebecca Harding Davis
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Remember that in ascending to the Father You could not leave us orphans; And in making yourself a prisoner on earth You knew to veil…
— Therese of Lisieux
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Gus: "It tastes like..." Me: "Food." Gus: "Yes, precisely. It tastes like food, excellently prepared. But it does not taste, how do I put this…
— John Green
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Doubt is a precipice on the way to God. Blessed is he who is freed from its bonds. He who fares without any doubt, adhere…
— Rumi
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The sensitive plate, the gas which is ionised, the fluorescent screen, are in reality receivers, into another kind of energy, chemical energy, ionic energy... luminous…
— Marie Curie
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...it is not necessary to the child to awaken to the sense of the strange and humorous by giving a man a luminous nose...to the…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Keep going; never stop; sit tight; Read something luminous at night.
— Edmund Wilson
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As I became aware that all things have unique spatial and temporal qualities which visually define and relate them, I began to perceive the things…
— Wynn Bullock
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