Considered the beginning of winter, early pagan winter solstice traditions were created to celebrate the “birth of the sun.” The winter solstice is a celebration of the imminent return of sun and is the shortest day of the year.
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I believe that in order to “know”, you have to admit to “not knowing”. Give up the need to be someone who has all the answers or relies on a rigid belief system. This requires a lot of energy to maintain and also shuts us off from learning and connecting with others who may have a different viewpoint.
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The path to peace and inner joy is right outside your door. This morning, mother nature provided the gift of the first snowfall, right on time for Christmas Eve. and the Yuletide Season. Celebrating the wonder and beauty of nature is a gift to yourself.
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Wisdom consists in doing the next thing that you have to do; doing it with your whole heart and finding delight in doing it. And this is the sense of the sacred. — Helen Luke
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Discovering and understanding your belief system is a personal journey that requires some form of reflection and self-inquiry. Many people may not be fully aware of how their beliefs influence their life, both positively and negatively. How we think and behave are usually habitual and automatic, so it requires one to cultivate a level of self awareness. Questioning our belief system is not a bad thing, as it allows us to make the connection between how our beliefs influence our behavior.
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The greatest wisdom is in simplicity. Love, respect, tolerance, sharing, gratitude, forgiveness. It’s not complex or elaborate. The real knowledge is free. It’s encoded in your DNA. All you need is within you. Great teachers have said that from the beginning. Find your heart, and you will find your way. — Carlos Barrios
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Snow hushes a noisy world with natural power and beauty. Anytime you are fully present in nature, you have the ability to find a still point so that you can quiet the external and internal volume in your life. You may then find that the storm is not "out there", but within yourself.
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When the mob governs, man is ruled by ignorance; when the church governs, he is ruled by superstition; when the state governs, he is ruled by fear. Before men can live together in harmony and understanding, ignorance must be transmuted into wisdom, superstition into illumined faith,and fear into love.
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Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning, but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can install in us. - Hal Borland
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Nature is a reminder that we can always slow down and be in the moment of beauty when it is presented to us. Allowing yourself the time to savor wonder and beauty is a gift you give yourself. You become aware of being in life, not as a spectator but fully immersed.
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