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Solstice Circle …<\/div>\n
Gathering Daily Dec 18 to 25, 4:30 PM ET<\/div>\n

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Winter solstice 2022 in Northern Hemisphere<\/p>\n

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4:48\u00a0PM ET on Wednesday, December 21<\/p>\n

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The solstice is a time of stillness, let us join together in silence and prayer to be still an instant and go Home together. to rest in the peace of the holy season.<\/p>\n

For Indigenous people across the globe, the natural world is a source of teachings about natural and universal laws. In understanding the interconnectedness of all things, we recognize that the cosmos\u2013 the sun, moon, stars, and other planets\u2013 affect us and connect us in undeniable ways. Acknowledging the winter solstice is a decolonial act for Indigenous People<\/p>\n

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…::”The problem is, people are being hated when they are real… and loved when they are fake. ~Bob Marley<\/p>\n

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…::” The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts… while the stupid ones are full of confidence. ~Charles Bukowski<\/p>\n

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….::”We are all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it does not. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing. ~Charles Bukowski<\/p>\n

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..::” Most of us are so completely *identified* with the *voice in the head* – the incessant stream of involuntary and compulsive thinking and the emotions that accompany it – that we may describe this as being possessed by the (egoic) mind… As long as anyone is completely *unaware* of this, the *thinker* seems to be who you are… This is unconsciousness (sleep). ~Eckhart Tolle :: The New Earth<\/p>\n

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..::” The most common ego identifications have to do with possessions: the work you do… social status and recognition… knowledge and education… physical appearance… special abilities… relationships… person and family history… belief systems… and often also political… nationalistic… racial… religious… and other collective identifications… _None_ of these is you. ~ Eckhart Tolle<\/p>\n

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..::” The lessons to be learned are only two… Each has its outcome in a different “world”… And each world follows surely from its source…. The certain outcome of the lesson that God’s Son is guilty is the “world” you see (egoic) … It is a “world” of terror and despair… Nor is there hope of happiness in it… However much you may have overlearned your chosen task, the lesson that reflects the Love of God is stronger still… And you will learn God’s Son is innocent, and see another “world”. ~ACIM T-31.I.7.<\/p>\n

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…::”The first illusion, which must be displaced before another thought system can take hold, is that it is a sacrifice to give up the things of this “world”.<\/p>\n

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For self-condemnation is a decision about identity, and no one doubts what he believes he is.<\/p>\n

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He can doubt all things, but never this.<\/p>\n

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What is the real meaning of sacrifice?<\/p>\n

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It is the cost of believing in illusions.<\/p>\n

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It is the price that must be paid for the denial of truth.<\/p>\n

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You may believe this course requires sacrifice of all you really hold dear.<\/p>\n

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In one sense that is true, for you hold dear the things that crucify God’s Son, and it is the course’s aim to set him free.<\/p>\n

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But do not be mistaken about what sacrifice means.<\/p>\n

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It always means the giving up of what you want.<\/p>\n

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And what, O teacher of God, is it that you want?<\/p>\n

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~ A Course in Miracles: Complete and Annotated Edition (ACIM p. 1609)<\/p>\n

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