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Aug 2023
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Conscious Prayer – Finding Refuge in Lov...

TARA BRACH
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Conscious Prayer – Finding Refuge in Loving Awareness - Prayer is a communing with our enlarged being. This talk examines less conscious forms of prayer, and how we can evolve the power of our prayers by opening into the depth of our longing, and reaching toward our true belonging.

(a special talk given at the 2016 IMCW Spring Retreat)

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