The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.

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As a way of opening this meditation and this new year, I begin with a brief reading from

Gwinella Norris called Sharing Silence.

Sharing Silence with others is a political act.

Silence brings us back to basics, to our senses, to ourselves.

It locates us.

Without that return, we can go so far away from our true natures that we end up quite literally

beside ourselves.

We live blindly and act thoughtlessly.

We endanger the delicate balance which sustains our lives, our communities, and our planet.

I believe that each of us can make a tremendous difference.

Politicians and visionaries will not return us to the sacredness of life.

That will be done by ordinary people who gather, neighbors, and friends together and say,

remember to breathe, remember to feel, remember to care, remember life.

Let us do this together for ourselves and our children and our children's children.

As a way of settling and arriving in silence, we take some moments to relax and

quiet through our body.

You might soften the eyes.

Let the brow be smooth.

Unhinging the jaw and relaxing right down to the root of the tongue.

Perhaps a slight smile at the mouth.

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