A post submitted by CGI member, Morgan.

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http://www.visibleorigami.com/2020/12/it-is-past-time-to-turn-attention-to.html

It is said, certainly in the Eastern Traditions, that the moment just before death is the most important moment in life and ALL of your previous moment's trend toward what your mind has been occupied with throughout. Where your thoughts are, just previous to your departure, sets the direction you go in upon departure.

The same must, perforce, apply to where your mind is at during significant periods of material transition, like an age transforming solstice. This is why we are admonished to have our thoughts on the divine at all times.

From the moment you are born, your life moves inexorably toward death. Only in the rarest cases does it resolve in another fashion. I suppose Elijah comes to mind, and those of whom the outcome remains in doubt, such as Lao Tzu, after he rode off into the mist on his water buffalo. There are others, like Apollonius of Tyana, and Mehemet Karagoz; of whom I am sure no reader has heard of before.