Definitions: (1) making clear what is obscure; elucidating; (2) serving as an honorable example
Derivation: Latin, “clear, bright, lustrous”
Compatible Quality: artistic
Reflection: A miracle is not the breaking of physical laws, but rather represents laws which are incomprehensible to us. — George Ivanovich Gurdjieff (1867-1949) Armenian philosopher, mystic, & composer
Quotes:
• Art is the means by which we communicate what it feels like to be alive – in the past, that was mixed up with other illustrative duties, but that was still its central function that has been liberated in the art called modern — Antony Mark David Gormley (1950-) British sculptor
• 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