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Are You Hiding Behind Your Busy Schedule?
By Joan Borysenko — 2013
Letting your heart’s voice be heard. A small step toward the stillness of Being.
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An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.1