Luminous Quotes

173 quotes by 135 authors

Good girls like myself need subversion. Being solemn, I aspire to comedy. Being a novelist, I aspire to the musical. Being organized, I aspire to… — Janet Burroway
The future will be gorgeous and reckless, and words, those luminous charms, will set us free again. — Carole Maso
The Ploughmen is as good a book as Iâ€™ve read in years. Kim Zupanâ€™s language is as rich as Cormac McCarthyâ€™s, and like Cormacâ€™s, it… — Rick DeMarinis
Nowledge which... transcends the bounds, the prejudices and prejudgements of any one society and culture is not an illusion but, on the contrary, a glorious… — Ernest Gellner
Early morning, the orange sun is slowly rising, shining forth in empty luminous clarity. The mind and the sky are one, the sun is rising… — Ken Wilber
O, You who are ever giving life to all life, moving all creatures, root of all things, washing them clean, wiping out their mistakes, healing… — Hildegard of Bingen
Joy is the sweet voice, joy the luminous cloud. We in ourselves rejoice! And thence flows all that charms or ear or sight, all melodies… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The morning woods were utterly new. A strong yellow light pooled beneath the trees; my shadow appeared and vanished on the path, since a third… — Annie Dillard
...it was a huge creature, luminous, ghastly, and spectral. I have cross-examined these men, one of them a hard-headed countryman, one a farrier, and one… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Religion must completely encircle the spirit of ethical man like his element, and this luminous chaos of divine thoughts and feelings is called enthusiasm. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
PICTURE OF LIGHT is luminous and genuinely transcendent... — Gerald Peary
To read great books does not mean one becomes â€˜bookishâ€™; it means that something of the terrible insight of Dostoyevsky, of the richly-charged imagination of… — John Cowper Powys
Our purpose is to consciously, deliberately evolve towards a wiser, more liberated and luminous state of being. — Tom Robbins
Cristina Eisenberg weaves her observations as a scientist and her personal experiences afield into a resonant account about the web of life that links humans… — Brenda Peterson
The inner self of every human waits patiently until we are ready to discover it; then it extends an invitation to enter the luminous mystery… — Deepak Chopra
That luminous part of you that exists beyond personality - your soul, if you will - is as bright and shining as any that has… — George Saunders
Edwidge Danticat's prose has a Chekhovian simplicity--an ability to state the most urgent truths in a measured and patiently plain style that gathers a luminous… — Madison Smartt Bell
No matter how long the room has been dark, an hour or a million years, the moment the lamp of awareness is lit the entire… — Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
Enlightenment consists not merely in the seeing of luminous shapes and visions, but in making the darkness visible. The latter procedure is more difficult and… — Carl Jung
If the garden of Eden really exists it does so moment by moment, fragmented and tough, cropping up like a fan of buddleia high up… — Helen Dunmore

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