celebration, n.Definitions

Celebration is the enemy of originality in art.

Celebration is not to be endulged in overly hastily — don't whistle until you're out of the woods.

Celebration is a confrontation involving the giving of attention to the transcendent meaning of one's actions.

Celebration is unwise before a thing has ended — Do not praise the day before the nightfall.

Celebration is best not done prematurely — It is not a fish until it is safely on the bank.

Celebration is a power that we are losing today: it is an active state, an act of expressing reverence or appreciation and it stands in contrast to being entertained which is a passive state marked by amusement or spectacle.

Celebration is self-restraint, is attentiveness, is questioning, is meditating, is awaiting, is the step over into the more wakeful glimpse of the wonder - the wonder that a world is worlding around us at all, that there are beings rather than nothing, that things are and we ourselves are in their midst, that we ourselves are and yet barely know who we are, and barely know that we do not know all this.