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pace – a meditation

  Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. Lao Tzu My favorite part of that quote is “yet everything is accomplished.” I am a “hurry-er.” I hurry up and get there so that I can I hurry up and wait. I hurry up and finish my work so that I can hurry up and…

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self – a meditation

  Today, like every other day, we wake up empty and scared. Don’t open the door to the study and begin reading. Take down the dulcimer. Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground. Rumi Today, like many other days, I woke up…

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protection – a meditation

  For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways. Psalms 91:11, King James Bible I was sitting in a restaurant with a friend when I heard this quote. I was feeling a little insecure and lost in life at the time. While we were in the restaurant,…

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grace – a meditation

  There is a loveliness to life that does not fade. Even in the terrors of the night, there is a tendency toward grace that does not fail us. Robert Goolrick, The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life I think, deep down, when a situation happens, I always know…

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