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• 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

  Men, Feelings, Enthusiasm

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• Happy is the man who can with vigorous wing Mount to those luminous serene fields! The man whose thoughts, like larks, Take liberated flight toward the morning skies --Who hovers over life and understands without effort The language of flowers and voiceless things!

  Charles Baudelaire

  Morning, Flower, Men

  Charles Baudelaire (2013). “Flowers of Evil and Other Works: A Dual-Language Book”, p.27, Courier Corporation

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• I dislike an eye that twinkles like a star. Those only are beautiful which, like the planets, have a steady lambent light, are luminous, but not sparkling.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Beautiful, Stars, Eye

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1857). “Prose Works”, p.112

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• In the neuter austerity of that terrain all phenomena were bequeathed a strange equality and no one thing nor spider nor stone nor blade of grass could put forth claim to precedence. The very clarity of these articles belied their familiarity, for the eye predicates the whole on some feature or part and here was nothing more luminous than another and nothing more enshadowed and in the optical democracy of such landscapes all preference is made whimsical and a man and a rock become endowed with unguessed kinship.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Eye, Men, Rocks

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West”, p.258, Vintage

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• He was becoming unstuck, he was sure of that - his bones were no longer wrapped in flesh but in clouds of dust, in hummingbirds, dragonflies, and luminous moths - but so perfect was his equilibrium that he felt no fear. He was vast, he was many, he was dynamic, he was eternal.

  Tom Robbins

  Clouds, Dust, Perfect

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.227, Bantam

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• The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage.

  Ethel Barrymore

  Acting, Actors, Theater

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• To ancient Chinese fancy, the Milky Way was a luminous river, - the River of Heaven, - the Silver Stream.

  Lafcadio Hearn

  Rivers, Heaven, Chinese

  Lafcadio Hearn (2012). “The Romance of the Milky Way And Other Studies & Stories”, p.16, tredition

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• A beam of luminous hydrogen canal rays has, owing to its velocity, exactly the same direction as that of the electric field in which it may be made to move.

  Johannes Stark

  Moving, Rays, Owing

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• No thinking being lives who, at some luminous point of his life of thought, has not felt himself lost amid the surges of futile efforts at understanding, or believing, that anything exists greater than his own soul.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Believe, Thinking, Effort

  Edgar Allan Poe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)”, p.1343, Delphi Classics

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• But my mind clung to my wife's image, imagining it with an uncanny acuteness. I heard her answering me, saw her smile, her frank and encouraging look. Real or not, her look then was more luminous than the sun which was beginning to rise.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Real, Wife, Mind

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.35, Beacon Press

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• Ah! from the soul itself must issue forth
  A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud
  Enveloping the Earth.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Clouds, Light, Issues

  'Dejection: an Ode' (1802) st. 4

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• Maid
  of the luminous grey-eyes,
  Mistress
  of honey and marble implacable white thighs
  and Goddess,
  chaste daughter of Zeus.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Beauty, Daughter, Eye

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.291, New Directions Publishing

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• We are luminous beings. Beneath our transient physical bodies we are made of intelligent light.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Intelligent

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

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• Life is a luminous pause between two mysteries that are yet one.

  Carl Jung

  Two, Mystery, Life Is

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• The photographer proceeds, via the intermediary of the lens, to a point where he literally takes a luminous imprint, a cast... [But] the cinema realizes the paradox of moulding itself on the time of the object and of taking the imprint of its duration as well.

  Andre Bazin

  Duration, Lenses, Cinema

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• Neither this body am I, nor soul, Nor these fleeting images passing by, Nor concepts and thoughts, mental images, Nor yet sentiments and the psyche's labyrinth. Who then am I? A consciousness without origin, Not born in time, nor begotten here below. I am that which was, is and ever shall be, A jewel in the crown of the Divine Self, A star in the firmament of the luminous One.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Stars, Self

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• Your eyes, accustomed to semi-darkness, will soon open to more radiant visions of light. The shadows which we shall paint shall be more luminous than the high-lights of our predecessors, and our pictures, next to those of the museums, will shine like blinding daylight, compared with deepest night. We conclude that painting cannot exist today without divisionism... ...Divisionism, for the modern painter, must be an innate complementariness which we declare to be essential and necessary.

  Umberto Boccioni

  Eye, Night, Museums

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• At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear. It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us. You can love completely without complete understanding.

  Norman Maclean

  Love, Elude You, Elude Us

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• Icons are also beautiful, with their luminous colors and gold leaf. On first glance, the subjects can seem flat, their poses artificial. But the wonder of the icons has to do with the relationship which develops between the panel and the viewer. Looking at an icon brings me a feeling of serenity; it's like a form of prayer. So I suppose in this sense, the icon is unsurpassed.

  Mary Pope Osborne

  Beautiful, Prayer, Color

  Source: www.yabookshelf.com

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• During the first nineteen months of my life I had caught glimpses of broad, green fields, a luminous sky, trees and flowers which the darkness that followed could not wholly blot out. If we have once seen, "the day is ours, and what the day has shown."

  Helen Keller

  Flower, Green Fields, Sky

  Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.9, Om Books International

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• Our dreams are luminous, a cast fire upon the world. Morning arrives and that's it. Sunlight darkens the earth.

  Charles Wright

  Dream, Morning, Fire

  Charles Wright (2004). “Snake eyes”

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• That luminous part of you that exists beyond personality - your soul, if you will - is as bright and shining as any that has ever been. Bright as Shakespeare’s, bright as Gandhi’s, bright as Mother Theresa’s. Clear away everything that keeps you separate from this secret luminous place. Believe it exists, come to know it better, nurture it, share its fruits tirelessly.

  George Saunders

  Mother, Believe, Personality

  "George Saunders’s Advice to Graduates". Commencement Speech, 6thfloor.blogs.nytimes.com. July 31, 2013.

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• The future will be gorgeous and reckless, and words, those luminous charms, will set us free again.

  Carole Maso

  Gorgeous, Reckless, Charm

  Carole Maso (2000). “Break Every Rule: Essays on Language, Longing, & Moments of Desire”, Counterpoint Press

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• As we gradually open that bubble and allow the luminous being inside to come out, your second attention will develop and you'll begin to see, deal with, and become the totality of yourself.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Attention, Deals

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• All human souls, never so bedarkened, love light; light once kindled spreads till all is luminous.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Light, Soul, Spread

  Thomas Carlyle (1843). “Past and Present”, p.44

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