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When you open your eyes in the morning, what do you think about? The worries from the day before, the difficulties that await you, the problems you will have to tend to and so forth. This is not a good way to start the day. Set aside your worries till ...
Result: 'Candle' (6)
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Daily meditationsIn churches and temples, it is the custom to light candles and burn incense. Why is this? Because lighting candles and burning incense symbolizes sacrifice, that is to say the transformation of raw matter into the subtler matter of light and ...
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Daily meditationsWhen you light a candle, the slightest breeze can extinguish its tiny flame. But if you light a brazier, the most violent winds will only fuel it. And what about you? If you are only a tiny flame, the slightest breeze will blow you out. But if you ...
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Daily meditationsYou light a candle… Its flame will give out light as long as it is fed by the burning wax. This combustion is in a way a sacrifice. There can be no light without sacrifice. A fire needs to be fed, and the candlewax is that food. This you know. But ...
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Daily meditationsWhen you feel discouraged, worried or upset, light a candle, and by means of it unite yourself with all that is fire in the universe. Just as a drop of water can unite us with the entire ocean, the mere flame of a candle is enough to unite us with ...
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Daily meditationsA candle flame is an aspect of the solar fire which enlightens, warms and vivifies us, not only on the physical plane but on the spiritual plane as well. In the physical realm, a candle flame obviously does not possess the powers of solar fire, but ...
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Daily meditationsWhen you feel discouraged, worried or upset, light a candle, and by means of it unite yourself with all that is fire in the universe. Just as a drop of water can unite us with the entire ocean, the mere flame of a candle is enough to unite us with ...
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