141 Quotes About Illumination

Most people live their lives laying prostrate before a false god, waiting for a cue to rise. There are no cues, only decisions. Shall I have dessert? Shall I have the best of the wine? Shall I love the person next to me? They can all be brought to your table. Rise, I say, rise and look within to the truth, to the light, and tell it your decision.

Beauty loves contradiction. Beauty is born of desire. And without beauty, there is nothing. Beauty is our keeper, our master, our reason. Beauty is illumination born of the dark.

When we shine our light,We help others through the darkness. When we show them their own light,We begin to illuminate the world.Speak kindly, love deeply, have faith.

It is in moments of shadow that illumination happens.

We are all caught in natural and social frameworks, subject to an overwhelming abundance of challenges and enticements that prevent us from questioning reality.

I thought I lived in a hostile world where everything feeds on everything, but now I know that I’m an immortal being witnessing the world’s wonders.

The sun rises each morning to shed light on the things we may have overlooked the day before.

I’m barely human. I’m more like a creature; to me, everything gives off a scent! Thoughts, moments, feelings, movements, words left unsaid, words barely spoken; they all have a distinct sense, distinct fragrances! Both a smell and a touch! To inhale is to capture, to experience! I can perceive and I can “touch” in so many odd ways! And so I am made up of all these scents, all these feelings! An illumination of nerve endings!

Seek for illumination of self, and then the world, through the simple, humble, almighty, supreme virtue of love.