⚡️ Enlightening Bolts

🎅 Santa Is Real: We don’t have to lie to children, and we don’t have to be in a rush to disillusion them, either. We can initiate them into a higher level of understanding, that is compassionate, enriching, even profound.  Read it here. 

🧘 Nisargadatta’s Teaching In 5 Verses: Spiritual perspective for seekers.  Read it here. 

🧠 Language Reactor: A powerful toolbox for learning languages with dynamic subtitles on Netflix or Youtube.  Try it here. 

🎇 Image of The Week

"Like a ship plowing through cosmic seas, runaway star Zeta Ophiuchi produces the arcing interstellar bow wave or bow shock seen in this stunning infrared portrait. In the false-color view, bluish Zeta Oph, a star about 20 times more massive than the Sun, lies near the center of the frame, moving toward the left at 24 kilometers per second. Its strong stellar wind precedes it, compressing and heating the dusty interstellar material and shaping the curved shock front. What set this star in motion? Zeta Oph was likely once a member of a binary star system, its companion star was more massive and hence shorter lived. When the companion exploded as a supernova catastrophically losing mass, Zeta Oph was flung out of the system. About 460 light-years away, Zeta Oph is 65,000 times more luminous than the Sun and would be one of the brighter stars in the sky if it weren't surrounded by obscuring dust. The image spans about 1.5 degrees or 12 light-years at the estimated distance of Zeta Ophiuchi."  Source. 

🎄 Well Wishes For The Holidays

This morning I arrived back to my childhood home to visit friends and family.

So far I've only seen my father and our dog. Many more faces to see.

I'm looking forward to it.

The holidays can be a special time for many. For others, it can be quite difficult.

Call your loved ones. Check in on them. Tell them you love them.

It could matter more than you know.

And savor the time you get to share together.

We all have our differences and disagreements.

But these squabbles are mostly meaningless in the light of our finitude.

Life is precious. It's passing fast. Wake up to the wonders around you today. Now. In this moment.

Sending well wishes to you and your family this holiday season.

🌿 A Good Friend and Life Living

Take note of these potent words from Meister Eckhart:

“If I had a friend and loved him because of the benefits which this brought me and because of getting my own way, then it would not be my friend that I loved but myself. I should love my friend on account of his own goodness and virtues and account of all that he is in himself. Only if I love my friend in this way do I love him properly.”

“If anyone went on for a thousand years asking of life: 'Why are you living?' life, if it could answer, would only say, 'I live so that I may live.' That is because life lives out of its own ground and springs from its own source, and so it lives without asking why it is itself living. ”

🤓 Learn This Word

Liberosis: The desire to care less about things - to loosen your grip on your life, to stop glancing behind you every few steps, afraid that someone will snatch it from you..

⏳ From The Archives

A hand-picked classic HighExistence article.

 28 Carl Sagan Quotes to Propel Your Mind Into the Infinite Cosmos 

“She had studied the universe all her life, but had overlooked its clearest message: For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.” — Carl Sagan

Carl Sagan was the space sage. The comic cosmonaut. He may have never gone to space, but it sure seemed like he lived there most days.

He was an astrophysicist, astronomer, cosmologist, and renowned author. However, he is likely most known as being a science communicator and science popularizer. He got us excited about space, about life, about humanity, and about the infinite potential we have ahead of us.

He wrote thrilling books, starred in feature TV series, and produced scientific papers with ease. He was a down-to-earth, head-in-the-sky, big-picture thinker, and humanity owes him a collective debt.

He was also part of the team who sent the Aricebo message, a radio communication blasted out into space with information about Earth and its inhabitants.

An active cannabis and space activist, the man had a lot to say, and he said it well. In his honor, we’ve pulled together some of his best thoughts. These Carl Sagan quotes cover everything from the smallest atoms to the further stars.

Buckle in, and blast off.

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