Poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of the light within which we predicate our hopes and dreams toward survival and change, first made into language, then into an idea, then into more tangible action. 
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Dogma-Free Meditation for Calming Your Mind
By Damien Echols — 2018
How to stay present and stop your mind from fixating.
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