Wine serves a purpose. It pleases the palate when imbibed in moderation, but when too much is taken in, it does dull the very senses you aimed to please. Many bypass the palate in search of an anesthetic—a way to lessen the pain they experience from moment to moment. Life is difficult. We are aware of this, but life is to be lived—to be experienced fully from moment to moment, good and bad. Is this not why you have chosen this life? So many do not realize this truth—that you have chosen the very circumstances in which you find yourself … your body, your family, your trials and joys … in order to find the very truth of existence.
“In vino veritas” is a lie when seen in this way, for with too much wine—what you call a liquid “spirit”—you do close the door to discovering yourself as a veritable spirit here and now—a spirit waiting to be set free from the confines which you have placed around it. Yes, imbibe. Yes, celebrate your year’s end and the other milestones by which you measure the passage of moments on your earthly plane, but celebrate with a clear mind the birthless-deathless spirit you are in every moment.