Celebration and Illumination

"Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!"

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"The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate."

"Although a candle may be viewed as 'primitive' because it uses fire as its source of illumination, candlelight contains an almost mystical quality that cannot be duplicated by any form of electricity. Lightbulbs may have replaced fire as a way to see in the dark, but in the transition, we have lost the richness of shadows. The yellows, oranges, and reds of a burning candle speak to us on an unconscious level, to a primal instinct in man that finds comfort in the mastery of fire. Seduction, through candles, is but one manifestation of a its luxurious speech. A candlelit room, though dynamic in its flickering sparks and dancing darknesses, is also inherently calming. How easy it is to lose yourself in such a place; how easy it is to lose your time in the glint of a candlelit room. A candle's primary purpose is not to provide light or warmth for us. Nor is it a simple decoration for a table or bookshelf. On some level, a candle is a reminder that we are human, and that nature will always be in us and around us."

-- Kenzilla, October 2000

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"It is better to light a candle,
than to curse the darkness."

-- Taken from an old Chinese Proverb, but the phrase found fame when spoken by Adlai Stevenson to the United Nations general assembly in 1962, in an address referring to Eleanor Roosevelt.

"The Midrash reminds us that 'many candles can be kindled from one without diminishing it,' and that many small candles together can create a great light. Never underestimate the strength of one person’s dream, the power of one voice, the wind from a butterfly's wing or the light from one dim candle. That tiny candle may be the bright light out of someone’s darkness."

-- Kirsti A. Dyer, MD, MS, FAAETS, NCBF