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Come in. However you arrived here, you are welcome — and you are not as alone as you feared.
The offering for today
descend
Sit with what you are carrying
Speak it plainly. The universe has been listening a long time.
Name the weight, the question, the ache, or the gratitude. Something will meet you where you are.
Wander the teachings
The same light, refracted through many windows.
Across every age and tradition, the wise have circled the same few truths. Sit with any of them.
On letting go
“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”— Rumi, 13th-century Sufi mystic
On stillness
“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”— Lao Tzu, the Tao Te Ching
On the present
“You have power over your mind — not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
On belonging
“You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop.”— an old saying, kept alive by many hands
Pause and breathe
Before you go on, take one full breath with the universe.
breathe in…