Light a CandleIn many different traditions lighting candles is a sacred action. It expresses more than words can express. It has to do with gratefulness. From time immemorial, people have lit candles in sacred places. Why should cyberspace not be sacred?
“You have never answered but you did not need to. If I stand at the ocean I can hear you with your thousand voices. Sometimes you shout, hilarious laughter that taunts all questions. Other nights you are silent as death, a mirror in which the stars show themselves. Then I think you want to tell me something, but you never do. Of course I know I have written letters to no-one. But what if I find a trident tomorrow?" ~~Letters to Poseidon, Cees Nooteboom
“We still carry this primal relationship to the Earth within our consciousness, even if we have long forgotten it. It is a primal recognition of the wonder, beauty, and divine nature of the Earth. It is a felt reverence for all that exists. Once we bring this foundational quality into our consciousness, we will be able to respond to our present man-made crisis from a place of balance, in which our actions will be grounded in an attitude of respect for all of life. This is the nature of real sustainability.”
~~Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
"We are the offspring of history, and must establish our own paths in this most diverse and interesting of conceivable universes--one indifferent to our suffering, and therefore offering us maximal freedom to thrive, or to fail, in our own chosen way."
~~Stephen Jay Gould, Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
"Humans are not rational creatures. Now, logic and rationality are very helpful tools, but there’s also a place for embracing our subjectivity and thinking symbolically. Sometimes what our so-called higher thinking can’t or won’t see, our older, more primitive intuition will." John Beckett
Pagan Devotionals, because the wind and the rain is our Bible
Please light a candle for my friend Drew, and his nephew Jimmy. Drew had to get his nephew committed recently, and that's kinda drudged up some old memories for him.
"A true initiation never ends"-Robert Anton Wilson
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"Reality has become a commodity"-Stephen Colbert 1/29/07
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"Sometimes, when you can't breathe, there are people there to breathe for you" - Aesop Rock
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Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure. Do not mistake a child for his symptom.
-Erik Erikson
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Please light a candle for my friend Drew, and his nephew Jimmy. Drew had to get his nephew committed recently, and that's kinda drudged up some old memories for him.
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I will light a candle for them both.
What you see depends on what you are looking for.
these sites are going to come in very handy over the next year as candles are banned from rooms in halls
I'm lighting a candle for my great-aunt, whom I learned just passed. May she pass safely into the West and may her ka be justified in the Halls of Judgement.
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surrounded by plush, downy things,
ill prepared, but willing,
to descend."
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