Since 2018 is The Year of Illumination and today is the eleventh day of the year, I wanted to present for your perusal, eleven illuminating insights about illumination.
How’s that for alliteration?
I repeated the title of this post 11 times out loud, hoping to get some silly stumbling of syllables, You know, like what happens when you say “Peter Piper Picked a Peck of Pickled Peppers”. The whole tongue-twisted and burst out laughing thing. Yeah, it doesn’t happen with this one.
Why don’t you try it for yourself? Let me know what happens.
I did a meditation using the phrase that pays that was quite illuminating. I will share my experiences in another post.
So here are eleven illuminating insights about illumination:
The first nine are meanings of the word taken from the Dictionary.com definition of illumination.
Wow! Nothing like getting it all done with a dictionary definition. I know, huh? But I like the Number 9 so much, I had to do it.
Illumination is:
1. an act or instance of illuminating.
2. the fact or condition of being illuminated.
3. a decoration of lights, usually colored lights.
4. sometimes, illuminations. An entertainment, display, or celebration using lights as a major feature or decoration.
5. intellectual or spiritual enlightenment.
6. also called illuminance, intensity of illumination. Optics. the intensity of light falling at a given place on a lighted surface; luminous flux incident per unit area, expressed in lumens per unit of area.
7. a supply of light: a source of illumination.
8. decoration of a manuscript or book with a painted design in color, gold, etc.
9. a design used in such decoration.
Just imagine that. Now, take it one step further, and add the next item on our list:
10. 2018 is the Year of Illumination
Isn’t Number 10 redundant, as it was used in the first sentence? You ask.
No, it’s repetition. There’s joy in repetition.
This year we will all gain new insights and see things that we haven’t seen before. As our awareness expands, we will also open up to new ideas that we never entertained before.
Illumination is about bringing something into the light that was previously in the darkness.
Which brings us to the next number, which is about each of us:
11. It’s time to shine your light!
Illuminate the world with your light! Share who you are from your heart!