🎄 What Christmas Really Means — Reflections from Manly P. Hall 🎄Beyond the glitter and the gifts, Christmas has always been a mirror for something deep in human nature — the need to give. ✨In What Christmas Means to Reflective Thinkers, philosopher Manly P. Hall invites us to look past commercialism and rediscover why the season touches us at all. He reminds us that:💫 The spirit of giving is divine.Every act of generosity is the soul remembering its own godhood. True giving is not for recognition — it is the quiet joy of sharing what life has already given us.🌿 Intelligent giving is sacred.Buddha said that feeding the one who will in turn feed others is greater merit. Hall expands this — that wise giving uplifts both giver and receiver and requires deep understanding, not sentimentality.🔥 We play God when we give.Every time we answer another’s need, we act as a channel for universal benevolence — “Through me, it is given.”🕊 The myth of Santa Claus endures because it symbolizes secret, selfless generosity — the unseen spirit of compassion that moves through all who give in love.Hall reminds us that generosity is more than money — it is the sharing of courage, wisdom, forgiveness, and kindness. To give without expecting, to release others from debt or resentment, is the true sacrament of Christmas.✨ This year, make your gift the giving of yourself — your understanding, your patience, your joy.