The one radiance shines through all things.
The poet, the painter, the sculptor, the musican, the architect, seek each to concentrate this radiance of the world on one point, and each in his several work to satisfy the love of beauty which stimulates him to produce.
Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.
The perfect view of existence comes from an unclouded, uncluttered life and mind whereby the radiance of perfect attention of the mind of the universe floods us at every moment. This is Buddhism. This is being on the path.
When you are happy, when you are laughing, when you are loving, the radiance of your Soul shines through, and all are lifted by it.
I adore wearing gems, but not because they are mine. You can't possess radiance, you can only admire it.
Victory always starts in the head. It's a state of mind. It then spreads with such radiance and such affirmations that destiny can do nothing but obey.
Beauty is the radiance of truth, and the frangrance of goodness.
What makes the strength of the soldier isn't the energy he uses trying to intimidate the other guy by sending him a whole lot of signals, it's the strength he's able to concentrate within himself, by staying centered. That Maori player was like a tree, a great indestructible oak with deep roots and a powerful radiance- everyone could feel it. And yet you also got the impression that the great oak could fly, that it would be as quick as the wind, despite, or perhaps because of, its deep roots.
Now I am steel-set: I follow the call to the clear radiance and glow of the heights.
Writing is not an end in itself but life transmuted into radiance.
The moon, also, is merciless: she would drag me Cruelly, being barren. Her radiance scathes me. Or perhaps I have caught her.
At fifteen you had the radiance of early morning, at twenty you will begin to have the melancholy brilliance of the moon.
We all find joy and radiance and a reason to move on even in the most dire of circumstances. Even in chaos and madness, theres still a beauty that comes from just the vibrancy of another human spirit.
All of consciousness is shifted from the imagined, the revisive, to the effort to perceive simply the cruel radiance of what is
[T]he experience of mystery comes not from expecting it but through yielding all your programs, because your programs are based on fear and desire. Drop them and the radiance comes. (16)
The mind's eye is perhaps no better fitted for the full radiance of truth, than is the body's for that of the sun.
I simply define glory as the beauty of God unveiled. Glory is the resplendent radiance of His power and His personality. Glory is all of God that makes God God, and shows Him to be worthy of our praise and our boasting and our trust and our hope and our confidence and our joy.
Don't you see yourself in every picture you love? You feel a radiance wash through you. It's something you can't analyze or speak about clearly. What are you doing at that moment? You're looking at a picture on a wall. That's all. But it makes you feel alive in the world. It tells you yes, you're here. And yes, you have a range of being that's deeper and sweeter than you knew.
And that Aha! that you get when you see an artwork that really hits you is, 'I am that. ' I am the very radiance of energy that is talking to me through this painting.
