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• We don't want to feel less when we have finished a book; we want to feel that new possibilities of being have been opened to us. We don't want to close a book with a sense that life is totally unfair and that there is no light in the darkness; we want to feel that we have been given illumination.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Book, Light, Darkness

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.97, Convergent Books

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• One of the outcomes of a Spirit-filled life is a new illumination to understand God's Word.

  F. E. Marsh

  Spirit Filled Life, Outcomes, Life Is

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• When one realizes God, He grants knowledge and illumination from within; one knows it oneself. In the fullness of one's spiritual realization one will find that He who resides in one's heart, resides in the hearts of others as well - the oppressed, the persecuted, the untouchable, and the outcast.

  Sarada Devi

  God, Spiritual, Heart

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• To understand a Bible text it takes an act of the Holy Spirit equal to the act that inspired the text in the first place. A revelation of the Holy Spirit in one glorious flash of inward illumination would teach you more of Jesus than five years in a theological seminary.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Jesus, Years, Religion

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• Fact creates norms, and truth illumination.

  Werner Herzog

  Truth, Facts, Norm

  De Gaetano Roberto, Slavoj Žižek, Paul Schrader, Jacques Rancière, Jean-Luc Nancy (2013). “Conversations on Cinema”, p.136, Luigi Pellegrini Editore

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• Mankind have such a deep stake in inward illumination, that there is much to be said by the hermit or monk in defence of his life of thought and prayer.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Prayer, Inward, Monk

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.749, Library of America

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• ‎"With any major decision there are cautions and considerations to make, but once there has been illumination, beware the temptation to retreat from a good thing. If it was right when you prayed about it and trusted it and lived for it, it ...is right now. Don't give up when the pressure mounts. Certainly don't go to that being who is bent on your destruction of your happiness. Face your doubts. Master your fears. 'Cast not away therefore your confidence.' Stay the course and see the beauty of life unfold for you.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Giving Up, Don't Give Up, Decision

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• You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.

  Edward Abbey

  Education, Light, Darkness

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.49, RosettaBooks

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• The exploration of oneself is usually also an exploration of the world at large, of other writers, a process of comparison with oneself with others, discoveries of kinships, gradual illumination of one's own potentialities.

  Colin Wilson

  Discovery, World, Exploration

  "The Outsider". Book by Colin Wilson, p. 231, 1956.

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• The Matisse seemed to respond to the decreasing light by increasing its own wattage. Every object in the room was drained of color, but the Matisse stood firm in the de-escalating illumination, its beauty turning functionality inside out, making itself a more practical and useful presence than anything else in sight.

  Steve Martin

  Light, Sight, Color

  Steve Martin (2010). “An Object of Beauty”, p.75, Hachette UK

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• I'm trying to find these rare moments where you feel completely illuminated. Facts never illuminate you. The phone directory of Manhattan doesn't illuminate you, although it has factually correct entries, millions of them. But these rare moments of illumination that you find when you read a great poem, you instantly know. You instantly feel this spark of illumination. You are almost stepping outside of yourself and you see something sublime.

  Werner Herzog

  Phones, Sublime, Trying

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• The Self is the heart, self-luminous. Illumination arises from the heart and reaches the brain, which is the seat of the mind. The world is seen with the mind; so you see the world by the reflected light of the Self.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Heart, Light, Self

  Ramana Maharshi (2004). “The Spiritual Teaching of Ramana Maharshi”, p.70, Shambhala Publications

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• Even in the darkest of times we have the right to expect some illumination, and ... such illumination may well come less from theories and concepts than from the uncertain, flickering, and often weak light that some men and women, in their lives and their works, will kindle under almost all circumstances and shed over the time-span that was given them on earth.

  Hannah Arendt

  Hero, Men, Light

  Hannah Arendt (1970). “Men in Dark Times”, p.9, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The body of the human world is sick. Its remedy and healing will be the oneness of the kingdom of humanity. Its life is the Most Great Peace. Its illumination and quickening is love. Its happiness is the attainment of spiritual perfections.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Spiritual, Healing, Oneness

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• There would be no one there to live for her during those coming years; she would live for herself. There would be no powerful will bending hers in that blind persistance with which men and women believe they have a right to impose a private will upon a fellow-creature. A kind intention or a cruel intention made the act seem no less a crime as she looked upon it in that brief moment of illumination.

  Kate Chopin

  Powerful, Believe, Men

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• 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.

  Jacqueline Bisset

  Jobs, School, Light

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• We know there is a sun in heaven, yet we cannot see what matter it is made of, but perceive it only by the beams, light and heat. Election is a sun, the eyes of eagles cannot see it, yet we may find it in the heat of vocation, in the light of illumination, in the beams of good works.

  Thomas Adams

  Eye, What Matters, Light

  Thomas Adams, James Sherman (1848). “An Exposition Upon the Second Epistle General of St. Peter”, p.117

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

  David Ogilvy

  Support, Use, Research

  "The Unpublished David Ogilvy".

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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.

  Anais Nin

  Space, Tree, Grace

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

  Symeon the New Theologian

  Christian, Spirit, Virtue

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• The work of intimacy, of course, is to learn to both show your own illumination, and to see it in a way that the physical eyes cannot reveal. In a way that only the heart can reveal: the illumined beauty in another person.

  Marianne Williamson

  Heart, Eye, Way

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• If you look in the eyes of the young, you see flame. If you look in the eyes of the old, you see light.

  Victor Hugo

  Children, Eye, Light

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• The difference between transformation by accident and transformation by a system is like the difference between lightning and a lamp. Both give illumination, but one is dangerous and unreliable, while the other is relatively safe, directed, available.

  Marilyn Ferguson

  Change, Differences, Giving

  Marilyn Ferguson (1987). “The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s”, Tarcher

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• What would you not have accomplished if you had been free?" "Possibly nothing at all; the overflow of my brain would probably, in a state of freedom, have evaporated in a thousand follies; misfortune is needed to bring to light the treasures of the human intellect. Compression is needed to explode gunpowder. Captivity has brought my mental faculties to a focus; and you are well aware that from the collision of clouds electricity is produced — from electricity, lightning, from lightning, illumination.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Clouds, Light, Focus

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• I have found, beauty is the illumination of the mind.

  John J. Geddes

  Beauty, Mind, Found

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