Illuminating Quotes

“Power and glory are two dialectic energies working in common ground. Taking a glimpse of the meandering under swell of glory in the shade of power, can be very inspiring and illuminating. ("The power and the glory" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Lust is a value. We can experience, miss, or lose it or sometimes retrieve it after its surreptitious fading away. In any event, if we treasure it and take it for a regular walk through the garden of our imagination, it will let us discover the most imaginary illuminating sceneries of life. ("Steps in the unknown")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“I have tried to read philosophers of all ages and have found many illuminating ideas but no steady progress toward deeper knowledge and understanding. Science, however, gives me the feeling of steady progress: I am convinced that theoretical physics is actual philosophy. It has revolutionized fundamental concepts, e.g., about space and time (relativity), about causality (quantum theory), and about substance and matter (atomistics), and it has taught us new methods of thinking (complementarity) which are applicable far beyond physics.”
― Max Born

“I had no room now for this fear, or for any other fear, because I was filled to the brim with music. And even when it was not literally (audibly) music, there was the music of my muscle-orchestra playing — “the silent music of the body,” in Harvey’s lovely phrase. With this playing, the musicality of my motion, I myself became the music — “You are the music, while the music lasts.” A creature of muscle, motion and music, all inseparable and in unison with each other — except for that unstrung part of me, that poor broken instrument which could not join in and lay motionless and mute without tone or tune.”
― Oliver Sacks, Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain

“The actor playing Lee got really irritated. He tried to escape by turning, running, or twisting and talking or yelling above the voice of the illness, but the illness didn't sit quietly.”
― Pete Earley, Crazy: A Father's Search Through America's Mental Health Madness

“When you reach illumination, you lose paradise. Illumination is the place where you gain knowledge that there is none but you to take care of yourself, you discover that you are the god you had all along sought and that you have no redeemer but you”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity

“The sunlight comes through my window as it sets
It meets my weary eyes, but I don’t fret
It’s almost blinding
As if it’s love itself;temporarily illuminating”
― Lidia Longorio, Hey Humanity

“The goal of life should be to die with your memories, not your dreams.”
― Buddhist proberb

“So many are looking for the Illumination version of self. I’m a healer, I’m a prophet, I’m a pastor, I need money, I need to be noticed, I’m popular online, so I must be right all the while the everyday stuff of ordinary life exhibiting the marvel of the grace of God is what we are called to be for the rest only get’s a “Depart from me!” Matthew 7:21-23.”
― John M. Sheehan, Sonnet of A Man [Print Replica]

“Be so full of love, so filled with joy, so illuminating, that others drown in darkness when not in your presence.”
― Mekael Shane

“Before my heart stops beating all I can do is admire the beauty of the seemly endless mortal stars that are decorating the night sky above me, illuminating my path to my next destination.”
― Ryan Gelpke, Peruvian Nights