By Joan Borysenko — 2008
Let your body relax, and feel your connection to the larger whole.
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Every day, we have to do the impossible. We have to submit to the magic reboot of sleep and then get up and line up all our selves into a unified being and get on with it. Nearly every day, new qualities of our selves come online to join in with all the others. This is a creative act.
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