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SUMMARY:Empty Bell New Year's Eve
DESCRIPTION:Holiday and New Year blessings to you and your families. Here on the brink of a new year\, please join our online community on New Year’s Eve. Together\, we will take a sacred pause instead of rushing forward into 2025. We can’t know what this new year will bring\, but perhaps we can identify some of our fears and hopes. Sharing with friends what we know and don’t know can bring solace and inspiration. \nOn Tuesday\, Dec. 31\, New Year’s Eve\, we will meet on the usual Empty Bell Zoom site. Contact Jonas if you need the URL. \nRather than focusing on so-called New Year’s resolutions\, we’ll focus on how we hope to live personally\, in our families\, and in our communities\, as 2025 proceeds. We’ll focus more on who we want to be rather than on what we want to do. To whet the whistles of our hearts and minds\, I’ve pasted below a number of quotes from thinkers many of us will recognize. Browse the list to see what stirs in your souls as you look ahead to the new year. When we meet\, as usual\, all perspectives will be honored. Let’s listen together in hope and mutual care. \nHere are some quotes to ponder and perhaps to take on as your own guide to the future: \nAnd now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.\n–Rainer Maria Rilke \nWrite it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.\n–Ralph Waldo Emerson \nWe cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate\, it oppresses.\n–Carl Jung \nKnowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.\n–Carl Jung \nEverything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.\n–Carl Jung \nThat best portion of a man’s life\, his little\, nameless\, unremembered acts of kindness and love.\n–William Wordsworth \nThe best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.\n–Ernest Hemingway \nI like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.\n–Ernest Hemingway \nLive as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.\nMahatma Gandhi \nDo what you feel in your heart to be right–for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do\, and damned if you don’t.\n–Eleanor Roosevelt \nThe only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it\, move with it\, and join the dance.\n–Alan Watts \nIf you don’t like something\, change it. If you can’t change it\, change your attitude.\n–Maya Angelou \nAlways be a first-rate version of yourself\, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.\n–Judy Garland \nGrief is the price we pay for love.\n–Anon \nThe possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.\n–Anais Nin \nPeople living deeply have no fear of death.\nQueen Elizabeth II \nDo I contradict myself? Very well\, then I contradict myself\, I am large\, I contain multitudes.\n–Walt Whitman \nI used to care about how other people thought I led my life. But lately I’ve realized that most people are too preoccupied with their own lives to give anybody else even the scantiest of thoughts.\n― Douglas Coupland \nOur Christian destiny is\, in fact\, a great one: but we cannot achieve greatness unless we lose all interest in being great. For our own idea of greatness is illusory\, and if we pay too much attention to it we will be lured out of the peace and stability of the being God gave us\, and seek to live in a myth we have created for ourselves. And when we are truly ourselves we lose most of the futile self-consciousness that keeps us constantly comparing ourselves with others in order to see how big we are.\n― Thomas Merton\, No Man Is an Island \n———————————\nBlessings\, Jonas
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