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Parker Palmer Explains Why Inner Contemplation Is So Necessary
By Maria Shriver
Necessity being the mother of invention, it struck me that contemplation didn’t depend on a particular practice. All forms of contemplation share the same goal: to help us see through the deceptions of self and world in order to get in touch with what Howard Thurman called “the sound of the genuine” within us and around us.
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