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Our source this week is brought to us by Lizzie, and was written by John Welwood:

You bring the world alive each moment,

In the freshness of your look,

Your touch, your waking.

Recognise this, your creation, at last.

It is always arising anew,

In each moment of looking freshly,

Letting everything happen as it does,

without making something out of it.

You thought you were cold and hungry,

Wandering lost in an alien place,

But now you can see:

This world is your light show,

Everything shining and shimmering,

In the blaze of your presence.

Be glad then.

Go forth nakedly

and claim your royal seat.

John Welwood

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