Illumination

God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.
- Dag Hammarskjold, 1905 - 1961

God has placed in each soul an apostle to lead us upon the illumined path. Yet many seek life from without, unaware that is within them.
- Kahlil Gibran, 1883 - 1931

Sometimes one has simply to endure a period of depression for what it may hold of illumination if one can live through it, attentive to what it exposes or demands.
- May Sarton, 1912 - 1995

To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803 - 1882

Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties.
- Emil Nolde, 1867 - 1956