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		<title>Quaker meditation &#8211; getting focused</title>
		<link>http://www.sylectra.com/2012/02/05/quaker-meditation-getting-focused/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 20:28:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sitting with the Quakers in silent worship one morning, I found a way to settle down into the silence that helped me. It's like a song with three verses - you can repeat each verse as many times as you like until you reach the right mental state. Chant aloud or silently - it's up to you. If you try this, I'd love to hear how it worked for you. ]]></description>
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		<title>Shall we expect questions to lead to answers?</title>
		<link>http://www.sylectra.com/2011/02/13/shall-we-expect-questions-to-lead-to-answers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Feb 2011 21:55:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sylectra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the past three years, I have been sitting with the idea that it is the questions that are important, not the answers. Today I realized I have been waiting for an answer about joy and sorrow.]]></description>
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		<title>Being Human, First and Foremost</title>
		<link>http://www.sylectra.com/2011/01/14/being-human-first-and-foremost/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jan 2011 19:36:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sylectra</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[human humanity grace frustration challenges life opportunities family job]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A very wise man told me once to give myself more grace because we are all imperfect. Through his example, he taught me to keep placing myself back on my intended path even after I mess up. I don't really want to be perfect - what I really want is to be human. ]]></description>
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		<title>Echoes of Mom&#8217;s suffering</title>
		<link>http://www.sylectra.com/2010/10/06/echoes-of-moms-suffering/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2010 03:37:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sylectra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My mom died at the end of 2006, just after her 60th birthday. She died of a rare kind of small intestine cancer, but actually she died of kidney failure as a result of starvation after her innards refused to pass food for a while. She died in the manner she chose; no feeding tubes, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The milling exercise: good for families?</title>
		<link>http://www.sylectra.com/2010/08/22/the-milling-exercise-good-for-families/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 03:41:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sylectra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m reading this book about anger called &#8220;The Cow in the Parking Lot &#8211; A Zen Approach to Overcoming Anger&#8221; and it&#8217;s written by a lawyer, Leonard Scheff (with Susan Edmiston) who felt that the Zen talks on anger sort of miss the mark with most Americans and he needed to explain it in a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What would a day without expectations be?</title>
		<link>http://www.sylectra.com/2010/02/15/what-would-a-day-without-expectations-be/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:36:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sylectra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay, maybe that concept is a little too abstract even for the most &#8220;zen&#8221; among us, but let&#8217;s try this: What if we picked a day and, when asked for our preference/order/decision on something that day, instead described the outcome we&#8217;d prefer in more general terms? We could call it the Flexible Wish Day. Or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On expectations and blessings</title>
		<link>http://www.sylectra.com/2010/02/14/on-expectations-and-blessings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 22:46:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This morning while sitting in silence with the Quakers, I began to explore the extent and impact of expectations in my life. What are the kinds of events/things/people/relationships we expect in our life? How do they steer our daily existence and our opportunities? Do they give us hope or do they limit our happiness? We [...]]]></description>
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		<title>January progress report on my life</title>
		<link>http://www.sylectra.com/2010/01/24/january-progress-report-on-my-life/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sylectra.com/2010/01/24/january-progress-report-on-my-life/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2010 19:55:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sylectra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I feel as though I am waking from a long and troubled winter&#8217;s sleep. Christmas was a hard time for me though I do feel I injected some hope into the season which will help me have a better holiday next year. I was not suicidal and I don&#8217;t need antidepressants, but just going through [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Moved to New Jersey</title>
		<link>http://www.sylectra.com/2008/11/11/moved-to-new-jersey/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 19:06:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sylectra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is an update on my new intention to open my heart and learn to live life fully and with gratitude for the dear people in it.]]></description>
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		<title>An update on Sylectra&#8217;s life</title>
		<link>http://www.sylectra.com/2008/11/11/an-update-on-sylectras-life/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sylectra.com/2008/11/11/an-update-on-sylectras-life/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 19:02:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sylectra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just returned from a wonderful experience at the Gathering of Circles, a camping and fellowship event held every year in Cloudcroft, New Mexico. ]]></description>
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