The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.

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Welcome, welcome. I'd like to start this meditation with a reading. This is a reading

from Ganilla Norris that I've always loved. She might just sit back and sense this is

the beginning of your reflection, this reading.

She writes this, she says, within each of us, there is a silence, a silence as vast as a universe.

We're afraid of it and we long for it. We'll be experiencing that silence where remember who we are,

creatures of the stars created from the cooling of this planet,

created from dust and gas, created from the elements, created from time and space, created from silence.

In our present culture silence is something like an endangered species, an endangered fundamental.

The experience of silence is now so rare that we must cultivate it and treasure it.

This is especially true for shared silence. Sharing silence is in fact a political act.

When we can stand aside from the usual and perceive the fundamental,

changes begin to happen. Our lives align with deeper values and the lives of others are touched

and influenced. 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 literally beside

ourselves. We live blindly and act thoughtlessly. We endanger the delicate balance which sustains our

lives, our communities and our planet. Each of us can make a difference. Politicians and

visionaries will not return us to the sacredness of life. That will be done by ordinary beings,

those who together or alone can say, remember to breathe, remember to feel, remember to care.

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

Let us practice for life's sake. In that spirit of presence and caring,

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