"The winter solstice has always been special to me as a barren darkness that gives birth to a verdant future beyond imagination, a time of pain and withdrawal that produces something joyfully inconceivable, like a monarch butterfly masterfully extracting itself from the confines of its cocoon, bursting forth into unexpected glory."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
Gary Zukav, in "Solstice Joy" (29 April 2021), Seat of the Soul
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Solstice
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Solstice
2 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Solstice →
Related Quotes
"Each solstice shows us that we can choose. We cannot stop the winter or the summer from coming. We cannot stop the sp…"
"It is worth quoting Anthony Grafton’s summation of Scaliger’s assault on the prisca theologia presumptions of his con…"
"The first Graeco-Egyptian astrologists did not invent the discipline they claimed to teach the Hellenic world. They u…"
"In making his own calculation, however, Christopher Columbus preferred the values given by the medieval Persian geogr…"
"You climb a mountain situated close to the sea or a level plain, and then observe the setting of the sun and find out…"
"The gods living in the north at the Meru mountain (i.e., at the north pole) see the Sun, after it has risen, for half…"
"When it is sunrise at Lanka, it is sunset at Siddhapura, midday at Yavakoti, and midnight at Romaka."
"On any day calculate the longitude of the Sun and the Moon for sunrise or sunset without applying the longitude corre…"
"Having fixed a pole, on a level piece of ground, and having described a circle by a cord attached to the pole, one sh…"
"A hundred to you, ten thousand years, two Yugas, three Yugas, four we make."