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Three Breaths: Connecting to The Holy Fire of Truth Within

Three Breaths: Connecting to The Holy Fire of Truth Within, by Meggan Watterson. Photograph of flower pedals upon a Buddha's arms by Chris Ensey
Photograph by Chris Ensey

Through breath and meditation we can reconnect to the voice within, the holy fire of our truth — and return to ‘human love’

I wish I had a magical mantra you could repeat when needed and poof– suddenly – you don’t just know, but FEEL the love that you are. The hard part about loving ourselves is that it takes hard work. It takes daily, inner doses of raw honey — of letting love reach within us where it has never been before.

I don’t know why so many of us were wired thissay or do. And then use our human mistakes as reasons to withdraw or withhold our own love for ourselves. Or worse, allow those mistakes (which are the whole point of being here) to convince us that we aren’t worthy of love.

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