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Gratefulness
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Though your friends and family will likely try to save you from it, yours is nobody else’s business or responsibility.
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You cannot cause, manufacture or manipulate it. It comes, if at all, as gift to be received with gratitude.
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Hope to receive it and prepare by giving away what you least want to lose. On this point Jesus and Buddha dance.
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Refuse to carry the burden of maintaining it. That’s unnecessary baggage, will betroth you to a boulder and a hill.
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If you receive some, scatter it like seed. Sharing assures preservation. As with manna, held tight, it rots.
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