Luminous Quotes

All great literature has an uncreeded and luminous theology behind it... Art [is] a form of active prayer.

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

Don't look up to heaven, for what will you see in the sky, except stars, luminous but cold, wholly insensitive to pity?

There is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its luminous summits. (Preface to the French edition).

A great man need not be virtuous, nor his opinions right, but he must have a firm mind, a distinctive luminous character.

Our purpose is to consciously, deliberately evolve towards a wiser, more liberated and luminous state of being.

To me, life, for all its privations, is a luminous thing. You have to risk it.

A book should be luminous not voluminous.

What of the souls already released from their bodies? We believe that they are overwhelmed in that vast sea of eternal light and of luminous eternity

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

We come from a dark abyss, we end in a dark abyss, and we call the luminous interval life.

PICTURE OF LIGHT is luminous and genuinely transcendent.

A quibble is to Shakespeare what luminous vapours are to the traveller: he follows it at all adventures; it is sure to lead him out of his way and sure to engulf him in the mire.

[Montesquieu] lifted the veil from the venerable errors which enslaved opinion, and pointed the way to those luminous truths of which he had but a glimpse himself.

Those who love and who have a sense of purity live in a very luminous band of awareness.

An idea so luminous flashed across her brain that she almost thought the room had leaped into light.

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

Down to the present day the luminous image of democracy has often served as a pretext for the most undemocratic actions.

Avoid the ecstatic adjectives that occupy such disproportionate space in every critic's quiver - words like "enthralling" and "luminous."

Religious bigotry is a dull fire - hot enough to roast an ox, but with no lambent, luminous flame shooting up from it.

Strange to say, the luminous world is the invisible world; the luminous world is that which we do not see. Our eyes of flesh see only night.

And I want to rise up, throw my arms open for a vast embrace, address an ample, luminous discourse to the invisible crowds. I would start like this: "O rainbow-colored gods. . .

A luminous body will appear more brilliant in proportion as it is surrounded by deeper shadow.

In the art of design, color is to form what verse is to prose,--a more harmonious and luminous vehicle of the thought.

Melissa Pritchard's prose, that darkly lyrical firmament, is brightened by the dizzy luminous arrangement of her stars and satellites, her great gifts to us: humor, irony, kindness, brilliance.

Are you the one with the blue eyes?" "Actually, my eyes are usually described as golden...and luminous.

Luminous quotations, also, atone, by their interest, for the dulness of an inferior book, and add to the value of a superior work by the variety which they lend to its style and treatment.

Perhaps sunlight had always been luminous, and doorways signs of greater passage than that of one room to another. But she’d not noticed it until now.

Imitate the magnificent trees that speak no word of their rapture, but only breathe largely the luminous breeze.

The American Indians, the ancient Indians would say, the metaphysical ones would say: "Power binds us together." Power, for a while, makes us what we are, perceivers, luminous perceivers of reality.

Be happy and free. Be able to see psychically and understand what is going on in the universe, what your luminosity is about, and how to reorder your luminous fibers.

I am at the Continental Divide with the astral beings. They're most beautiful. They're most luminous. They have many shapes and sometimes their shape changes constantly, All kinds of colors.

What I do, the teacher of the nagual, is open up the bubble of your luminosity and allow the luminous being to take short excursions into the unknown.

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.

The reordering of the luminous fibers is a very sophisticated art. It's not something anyone should ever undertake without supervision.

There are two worlds, the world of desire and the world of enlightenment. The world of enlightenment doesn't go anywhere. It is endless, luminous perfection. The world of desire leads to more desire.

As we go deeper and deeper into the world of meditation, we are able to travel along the luminous bands, just like you travel along a highway or road.

The subtle physical body is made up of strands of luminous energy, and the energies are flowing through them constantly in the etheric plane. Above the subtle body is the causal body.

Merge your consciousness with that of a luminous being ... and then from there to eternity.

...it is not necessary to the child to awaken to the sense of the strange and humorous by giving a man a luminous nose...to the child it is sufficiently strange and humorous to have a nose at all.

Our god's name is Abraxas and he is God and Satan and he contains both the luminous and the dark world.

I am held by the creator of the world. I am opening, I am unbounded, I am luminous, I am powerful.

The practice of listening is one of the most mysterious, luminous, and challenging art forms on Earth.

Drink in the moon as though you might die of thirst.

At sunrise, everything is luminous but not clear