HAPPY EASTER
It is one of life’s greatest pleasures to see the light shine in someone’s eyes–from delight, laughter, understanding, or spiritual enlightenment. On the way to enlightenment is curiosity and wonder.
I wish you hope, renewal, and the anticipation of new beginnings.
ILLUMINATOR
Divine Definitions: (1) The creator of light; luminous; (2) The giver of physical, mental, and spiritual light; (3) Spiritually enlightening; resplendent; (4) To brighten with grace; (5) The giver of perspective; (6) The one who makes things clear; elucidating and uplifting; (7) Mentally brilliant; illustrious; cogent; (8) Shedding light on each detail; interpreter; (9) Filling the universe with color
Quotes:
• He shines; everything shines. — Hinduism, Katha Upanishad 5.15 {5th-1st century BC}
• The universe is illuminated by three kinds of light: material light, intellectual insight, and spirit luminosity. — The Urantia Book, 0:6.8 {1955}
ENLIGHTENED
Human Definitions: (1) having arrived at a more objective view; able to see or comprehend truth; illuminated; (2) clear as to facts, meanings, values, or intentions; informed; (3) free from ignorance, prejudice, or superstition
Quote: I am not the first Buddha who came upon Earth, nor shall I be the last. In due time, another Buddha will arise in the world – a Holy One, a Supremely Enlightened One, endowed with wisdom in conduct, auspicious, knowing the universe, an incomparable leader of men, a master of angels and mortals. — Siddhartha Gautama “The Buddha” (c. 563-483 BC) Nepalese holy man
Tip: Enlightenment is relative. For instance: One may experience a sudden coalescing of pieces of the puzzle into a cohesive whole. All the while knowing this new “whole” is yet just another piece.
Colors: violet, yellow
Symbols: 1) the crown; 2) lotus flowers
ILLUSTRATIVE
Human Definitions: (1) making clear what is obscure; elucidating; (2) serving as an honorable example
Derivation: Latin, “clear,” “bright,” “lustrous”
Compatible Quality: artistic
Quotes:
• Interesting phenomena occur when two or more rhythmic patterns are combined, and these phenomena illustrate very aptly the enrichment of information that occurs when one description is combined with another. — Gregory Bateson (1904–1980) English anthropologist
• The Resurrection miracle is nothing to you and me if it is only an event of eighteen centuries bygone. Unless we can live the immortal life–unless we can receive God to his own home in these hearts of ours–the texts are nothing to us unless these daily lives illustrate them. — Edward Everett Hale (1822–1909) American author
Where your treasure is, there also will your heart be. — The Bible, Matthew 6.21, Jesus of Nazareth (7 B.C.-30 A.D.) Preacher
Peace,
Jim Downs