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Breathe by Debbie Nutley. Welcome to the Jack Cornfield Heart Wisdom Hour.

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dot com slash Jack. So here we are in the temple at the beginning of the roaring 20s, yet again,

right, a new decade.

And we come together to get a little quiet and with it we also contemplate

this beautiful and troubled world and our place in it.

And when we come to sit together to meditate,

to quiet ourselves, sometimes it's for a little spiritual uplift or new perspective or a little fix or sometimes

it's just to get in touch with our own bodies or our hearts.

Sometimes it's to remember, as you sit quietly, that there's a bigger picture. You remember the famous Ojibwa saying, sometimes I go about

pitying myself when all the while I'm being carried by great winds across the sky.

Our lives are really mysterious and we actually don't know where they're going and what will happen.

You have some ideas about it, but you can't be sure what's going to happen tomorrow.

Really, for you or the people you love or people around.

So here we had a baby blessing.

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