self-luminous

It has been a question whether comets are self-luminous, or whether they simply reflect the solar light.

How the few such that have lived in the world stand out, self-luminous, amidst the darkness of the past, surrounded by the wreck of names remembered only for their crimes, and pointing to the admiring gaze of men the true path to glory's temple!

The active sense of living which we all enjoy, before reflection shatters our instinctive world for us, is self-luminous and suggests no paradoxes.

Finally, life emerges as a self-conscious, self-luminous Intelligence in man who not only thinks, feels and moves but is also conscious of being the subject, the knower of thinking, feeling and willing and controls, directs all these fluctuating States and processes of mind either towards the service of the self or towards bondage to mundane values.