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Waking Up And Noticing Daily Wonders

To be alive is to be present here and now with what is.  Meditation helps us in staying grounded in the present moment. With time and practice, meditation will open a path towards what is to be alive - to be present and full aware in play with mystery and beauty and love of life. With time it might make you realise that we live on a very strange little speck of rock in a very remote corner of the universe and it is this rock that allows us to be alive. Cherish it.

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