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Alone Means All-One

aloneThe word alone looks like the words all one, and perhaps that’s significant. When I lose who I think I am (my ego, my way of doing things, my way of thinking), then I can more easily become one with all, that is, the universe and all it contains. Ironically this can occur most easily when I am alone.

Use your alone times today to be all one.

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