A candle flame in a dark room also tends to draw our gaze down to its tiny, radiating flame of light, its presence swallowing up a sense of the vastness of space as if all eternity, the great weight of it stood hushed, gazing, peering down like on that timeless day when the convergence of the temporal and the infinite, time and eternity, deity.
Like beeswax candles, these highly scented candles are cleaner when burning and do not give off black soot as do paraffin candles. Soy candles are made of all natural ingredients and do not contain any petroleum by-products, such as oil. Highly scented candles give off the scent even when they are not lit.
Life Is Like a Candle, Let's End Suffering.. Life is precious - small things are just that - small things and mean nothing. I write this as a tribute, in memory of a friend and colleagues brother who tragically passed a few days ago under devastating circumstances. Prayers go out to Vincent and his family.