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It is a time that people all around the world at least in the northern hemisphere, quiet themselves

as well as we get closer to the darkest day of the year.

And there are all the different kinds of holiday celebrations

that go back to ancient times and that are there

fostered in all the different cultural and spiritual and religious traditions.

And most of them have to do with light and lighting candles and fires and in some way trying

to bring light. Not so much much I mean it's sort of superstitious and

inaccurate to think that it's light to bring the light back and that we can

is an acknowledgement that we carry an inner light

as well as the outer light,

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