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Mar 2020
27m 22s

Guided Heart Meditation: Loving Kindness...

TARA BRACH
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Guided Heart Meditation: Loving Kindness - Befriending our Lives - This meditation guides us in how to cultivate a deep quality of friendliness in relating to our inner life and each other. The gift of this practice is a direct sense of belonging - knowing that we can never be alone (a retreat meditation).

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