It’s okay that you have flaws.How could our lives be as clean and white as a swan?Life naturally takes a tollon our bodies, our minds,…
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Read more >I don’t know where this core meets God or the divine or the big humming nothingness, but I believe it meets it somewhere.
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Read more >I grew up in a family where spirituality was considered to be the highest and best pursuit on earth and the province of heavyweights.
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