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The wisdom of literature is quite antithetical to having opinions. 'Nothing is my last word about anything,' said Henry James. Furnishing opinions, even correct opinions - whenever asked - cheapens what novelists and poets do best, which is to sponsor reflectiveness, to pursue complexity. Information will never replace illumination.Collection: Illumination
The rainbow is elusive, and its colors but the illumination of tears.Collection: Illumination
You are the instrument of your own illumination.Collection: Illumination
Madness, and then illumination.Collection: Illumination
I cannot resist making the observation that some people use statistics as a drunk uses a lamppost - more to lean on than for illumination.Collection: Illumination
There is a tendency for humans to consciously see what they wish to see. They literally have difficulty seeing things with negative connotations while seeing with increasing ease items that are positive. For example, words that evoke anxiety, either because of an individuals personal history or because of experimental manipulation, require greater illumination before first being perceived.Collection: Illumination
In the temporary illumination of the headlights, the insects were scribbling out messages from God that we couldn't get.Collection: Illumination
For a servant of God to have authority in every sentence he utters, he must first suffer for the message he is to deliver. Without great tribulation, there is no great illumination.Collection: Illumination
The way upward from inertia to illumination passes through the sphere of action.Collection: Illumination
After an interval of two and a half centuries, the tradition of mystic illumination renewed itself in Italy and Germany.Collection: Illumination
If you take from a theory only the conclusions you like and discard the rest, you are using the theory as a drunkard uses a lamp post-for support rather than illumination.Collection: Illumination
Pilgrimages of mind or walking meditation - bringing moments of illumination in which the sense of relationship to the rest of existence suddenly stands out with startling and unexpected clarity.Collection: Illumination
Politicians use statistics in the same way that a drunk uses lamp-postsfor support rather than illumination.Collection: Illumination
If you don't laugh at all, you've missed the point. If you only laugh, you've missed your chance from illumination.Collection: Illumination
We all have a tendency to use research as a drunkard uses a lamppost – for support, not for illumination.Collection: Illumination
This generation, raised on "Eyewitness News," conditioned by the instant replay, and spared the illumination that comes from tedious historical study, tends to be even more ahistorical than most.Collection: Illumination
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.Collection: Illumination
One has to recognize that science is not metaphysics, and certainly not mysticism; it can never bring us the illumination and the satisfaction experienced by one enraptured in ecstasy. Science is sobriety and clarity of conception, not intoxicated vision.Collection: Illumination
When the mind grapples with a great and intricate problem, it makes its advances step by step, with but little realization of the gains it has made, until suddenly, with an effect of abrupt illumination, it realizes its victory.Collection: Illumination
Most striking at first is the appearance of sudden illumination, a manifest sign of long unconscious prior work.Collection: Illumination
The union of the mind and intuition which brings about illumination, and the development which the Sufis seek, is based upon love.Collection: Illumination
Yes, all my illusions will burn into illumination of joy, and all my desires ripen into fruits of love.Collection: Illumination
Watching violence in movies or in TV programs stimulates the spectators to imitate what they see much more than if seen live or on TV news. In movies, violence is filmed with perfect illumination, spectacular scenery, and in slow motion, making it even romantic. However, in the news, the public has a much better perception of how horrible violence can be, and it is used with objectives that do not exist in the movies.Collection: Illumination
Journaling is a way to be a good steward of the Spirit's illuminations.Collection: Illumination
On each race is laid the duty to keep alight its own lamp of mind as its part in the illumination of the world. To break the lamp of any people into deprive it of its rightful place in the world festival.Collection: Illumination
We do not understand and then obey: that is instruction. We obey by faith, and then we understand: that is illumination.Collection: Illumination
This afternoon, I've arranged for this ceremony to be illuminated by solar power.Collection: Illumination
The departure from the world is regarded not as a fault, but as the first step into that noble path at the remotest turn of which illumination is to be won.Collection: Illumination
In the end, history, especially British history with its succession of thrilling illuminations, should be, as all her most accomplished narrators have promised, not just instruction but pleasure.Collection: Illumination
The sun cares nothing for illumination.Collection: Illumination
Painters who are not colorists produce illumination, not painting.Collection: Illumination
Atheism is a system which can communicate neither warmth nor illumination, except from those fagots which your mistaken zeal has lighted up for its destruction.Collection: Illumination
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.Collection: Illumination
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.Collection: Illumination
The greater the realization of truth and ahimsa, the greater the illumination.Collection: Illumination
Creationists use facts the same way a drunk uses a lightpost: for support instead of illuminationCollection: Illumination