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“We all go to the same silence.” Marilyn Nelson

July 13, 2011 By Jacqueline Briggs Martin

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Ducklings bob next to a duck
A bird stands between two bodies of water
A bird is perched upon a plant
A view across a lake.

Marilyn Nelson read here at Hamline yesterday and, during an informal discussion, said that we can grow our capacity for compassion and empathy by meditating. “We all go to the same silence,” she said.

And we were silent in thinking about those words.

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