Shedding Light

In Christianity the twelfth night is January 6. Called epiphany, it is the time when the wise men arrived and the baby Jesus was revealed.  In science it typically refers to breakthroughs such as when Newton was hit on the head with an apple thus discovering gravity, or of Archimedes shouting ‘Eureka’ when he discovered displacement in his bath.

Epiphany applies to any situation in which an enlightening realization allows a problem or situation to be understood from a new and deeper perspective.

 The best epiphanies approach their revelations indirectly, through imagery, metaphor, and symbol rather than through direct statement. In short, they arrive with some elusiveness, like insight itself. David Jauss

You can’t rush them.

The inspiration can come in such small ways that if you sit there just waiting for the big epiphany you'll sit there for the rest of your life. Irvie Welsh

They are not logical.

I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking. Albert Einstein

We invite them into our lives.

Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world. John Milton

It enables you to sense creation not as something completed, but as constantly becoming, evolving, ascending. This transports you from a place where nothing is new to a place where there is nothing old, where everything renews itself, where heaven and earth rejoice as at the moment of creation. Abraham Isaac Kook

A new year is an opportunity for growth, learning and change. I invite you to practice an attitude of gratitude, embrace silence, listen and observe.  The choice is yours, do or do not. Yoda

If nothing we do matters... , then all that matters is what we do. Joss Whedon