Luminosity

Throughout my life,
during every moment I have lived,
the world has gradually been taking on light and fire for me,
until it has come to envelop me in one mass of luminosity,
glowing from within...
the purple flush of matter imperceptibly fading into the dust of spirit,
to be lost finally in the incandescence of a personal universe.
-Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Discover yourself as a being of light,
not as an aura, but as a pure luminous consciousness
which lights up all things as it turns toward them.
All the rest is just the lamp, the scaffolding, the outside, the wrapping,
the lamp through which God sees.
It has to be just as luminous as the eyes which see through it.
It is a state in which you feel that wherever you walk,
you are bringing  light that shines,
that thrusts a light upon your path,
and wherever you turn you face
you are casting the floodlight of your consciousness upon all things.
And everything becomes crystal clear,
you see right into the inside of things,
right into the depths of matters,
into the souls of beings.
-Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan

The faculty of being luminous

is assuredly a thing more perfect than that of seeing light...
more purity in the substance,
more homogeneity in the parts,
more delicacy in the structure.
-Jean-Baptiste Robinet