You open your eyes and find the soft, diffused light of the fiber optics and early morning.

Ice surrounds you. Part of it carved in the shape of mobile and sculptures, part as solid blocks that make up the walls, the ceiling and even the floor.

Despite the beauty of the room, it is time to wake up. After all, the temperature in your room is about minus five to minus eight degrees Celsius and you have just passed the whole night in a sleeping bag on a base of ice.

This is part of the experience many people go through when being guests at the known Ice hotels.

Entire buildings, with bedrooms, living rooms, reception areas, restaurants built only with blocks of ice.

Annually, in some areas of the planet, these unique masterpieces of the contemporary engineering are created to receive guests from all around the world.

They are, usually, built nearby large rivers, where from there it is possible to obtain water, freeze it and cut in big ice blocks, taking them to the construction site.

Besides the specialized engineers, sculptors and artists from different parts of the world are always invited, to work at the final touch in each room.

Although, the most intriguing of all is that these luxury igloos remain standing, working, and not for more than four or five months every year.

After this time, they, literally, turn into water, melt and are then river.

Even that the engineers and artists who participate of their construction wish to attach to their masterpiece, they cannot, because their creation lasts for a short period of time.

But this does not discourage them in any way. Year after year they are there, building a different hotel, always with the maximum care and beauty possible.

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Isn´t life on Earth, just like to live in an ice hotel?

We enjoy things, but they do not belong to us. They go back to the river of life, by the time we return to the spiritual world.

This way, what we have gotten by lifting our buildings on Earth, when making material gains, are not our things, as to say, but yes the buildings of our soul.

The prize for all those years of honest, dedicated and serious work, are not the real state, stocks, vehicles, etc.

It is the discipline conquered. It is the intelligence developed. It is the capacity to manage people, to find solution to the problems more easily.

These are some of the goods of the Spirit, that we do not lose, that do not melt after the winter.

It is certainly important to have objectives related to the matters. We have the mission to work towards the material improvement of the planet.

However, it is indispensable that we do not get too attach to the goods, losing focus of our real goals in this incarnation.

The ice sculpture may melt, break up, but, the sculptor leaves each experience better than when started, more mature and capable after each work carved with dedication.

There it is the real achievement.

Spiritist Moment Team.
February 14.2011.