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  • Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvelous. I want to be a writer who reminds others that these moments exist; I want to prove that there is infinite space, infinite meaning, infinite dimension. But I am not always in what I call a state of grace. I have days of illuminations and fevers. I have days when the music in my head stops. Then I mend socks, prune trees, can fruits, polish furniture. But while I am doing this I feel I am not living.

  • Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination.

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

  • It had become clear to me, in a flash of illumination, that for me the only possible goal was psychiatry. Here alone the two currents of my interest could flow together and in a united stream dig their own bed. Here was the empirical field common to biological and spiritual facts, which I had everywhere sought and nowhere found. Here at last was the place where the collision of nature and spirit became a reality.

  • Painters who are not colorists produce illumination, not painting.

  • We all have a tendency to use research as a drunkard uses a lamppost – for support, not for illumination.

    "The Unpublished David Ogilvy".
  • I wanted to go to acting school, and I did a few modeling jobs to pay for acting school. I never aspired to be a model. I met lots of photographers, and I learned a lot about light - as a source of love and illumination, light as a gift of love. On film, that's a massive contribution.

    Jobs   School   Light  
  • There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.

    "Lanterns and Lances‎". Book by James Thurber, p. 146, 1961.
  • Knowledge has three degrees--opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.

  • We do not understand and then obey: that is instruction. We obey by faith, and then we understand: that is illumination.

    Warren W. Wiersbe (2015). “Heirs of the King: Living the Beatitudes”, p.135, Discovery House
  • We can find meaning and reward by serving some higher purpose than ourselves, a shining purpose, the illumination of a Thousand Points of Light...We all have something to give.

  • Intuitive knowledge is an illumination of the soul, whereby it beholds in the light of God those things which it pleases Him to reveal to us by a direct impression of divine clearness.

  • The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live, and upon the changes which we hope to bring about through those lives. It is within this light that we form those ideas by which we pursue our magic and make it realized. This is poetry as illumination, for it is through poetry that we give name to those ideas which are, until the poem, nameless and formless-about to be birthed, but already felt.

    Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.36, Crossing Press
  • The end for which we are created invites us to walk a road that is surely sown with a lot of thorns, but it is not sad; through even the sorrow, it is illuminated by joy.

  • Faith is not belief, it is the grasp on the Ultimate, an illumination.

    Swami Vivekananda, Swami Adiswarananda (2006). “Vivekananda, World Teacher: His Teachings on the Spiritual Unity of Humankind”, p.213, SkyLight Paths Publishing
  • Men's and nations' finest hour consist of those moments when extraordinary challenge is met by extraordinary response. Hence in those darkest hours, we must light our individual candles rather than vying with others to call attention to the enveloping darkness. Our indignation about injustice should lead to illumination, for if it does not, we are only adding to the despair-and the moment of gravest danger is when there is so little light that darkness seems normal!

  • When we try to make everything clear, we make everything confused. If, however, we admit one mysterious thing in the universe, then everything else becomes clear in the light of that. The sun is so bright, so mysterious, that one cannot look at it, and yet in the light of the sun everything else is seen.

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

    Samael Aun Weor (2010). “Dream Yoga”, p.45, Glorian Publishing
  • A deeply felt novel . . . The Story of Forgetting offers us both solace and illumination. Stefan Merrill Block possesses a singular mix of imagination, compassion, and scientific understanding; he is equally gifted at spinning fantastic tales as he is at bringing genetic histories to vivid life.

  • ... the life of the mind is reality, and love without romantic illumination is a spiritless matter.

  • In the spiritual world there are no time divisions such as the past, present and future; for they have contracted themselves into a single moment of the present where life quivers in its true sense. The past and the future are both rolled up in this present moment of illumination, and this present moment is not something standing still with all its contents, for it ceaselessly moves on.

  • I cannot resist making the observation that some people use statistics as a drunk uses a lamppost - more to lean on than for illumination.

  • The ordinances do not impart eternal life to the believer, but they do confirm, strengthen, and heighten our awareness and enjoyment of that life. The bread and wine are means or instruments by which God quickens us to apprehend, understand, visualize, and experience the sanctifying influence of the Holy Spirit and his unique ministry of shining the light of illumination and glory on Jesus.

    Jesus   Wine   Mean  
  • Illumination in the outer world is to be happy no matter what is going on. In the inner world, it's more ineffable. It's harder to express.

  • [A]ll knowledge is one. When a light brightens and illuminates a corner of a room, it adds to the general illumination of the entire room. Over and over again, scientific discoveries have provided answers to problems that had no apparent connection with the phenomena that gave rise to the discovery.

    Isaac Asimov (1992). “Atom: Journey Across the Subatomic Cosmos”, Plume Books
  • It might sound odd, but I want to thank Michael Bay because hes been saying how important it is to show 3D with the right luminescence. And thats very important for this film, a lot of which was shot at night or with very low illumination.

    "'Harry Potter' Finale: Rupert Grint, David Heyman, Phelps Twins Give First Look at CineEurope" by Scott Roxborough, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 30, 2011.
  • The anointing of the Holy Spirit is given to illuminate His Word, to open the Scriptures, and to place the spiritual man in direct communication with the mind of God.

    Bible   God   Faith  
  • I think for everybody reading can be a solace, illumination, education.

    Source: www.hbook.com
  • The Florida sun seems not much a single thing overhead but a set of klieg lights that pursue you everywhere with an even white illumination.

    John Updike (2010). “Rabbit at Rest”, p.75, Random House
  • serene illumination, or just sitting, is not a technique, or a means to some resulting higher state of consciousness, or any particular state of being. Just sitting, one simply meets the immediate present. Desiring some flashy experience, or anything more or other than 'this' is mere worldly vanity and craving.

    John Daido Loori (2010). “The Art of Just Sitting: Essential Writings on the Zen Practice of Shikantaza (Large Print 16pt)”, p.14, ReadHowYouWant.com
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