Thank you for sharing this!! The Tao has beautiful principles for living life. 
There was a phrase that Alan Watts said in one of his speeches rather offhandedly that goes something like
" your life is not your own it is the delegated adaptability of the Dao"
I can’t help but meditate on it and while it might not be as significant as my gut is telling me it is alone i feel like incorperating doaism completes some of the issues ive had with buddhism regarding the soul and such.
Great to see you Sassy, 
i hope you are well
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Another pearl from Alan Watts!!
I am also a ‘soul/energy’ person, so I appreciate the perspective/guidance.
I am doing well. Always good to see you as well!
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The Pocket Pema Chodron
Why meditate?
WHY do we meditate? This is a question we’d be wise to ask. Why would we even bother to spend time alone with ourselves? First of all, it is helpful to understand that meditation is not just about feeling good. To think that this is why we meditate is to set ourselves up for failure. We’ll assume we are doing it wrong almost every time we sit down: even the most settled meditator experiences psychological and physical pain. Meditation takes us just as we are, with our confusion and our sanity. This complete acceptance of ourselves as we are is called maitri, or unconditional friendliness, a simple, direct relationship with the way we are.
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I love that little Gem.
Ty for sharing.
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I’m joining in
Meditated for around 9 minutes and 30 seconds 
First day of building a daily meditation habit 
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Accidentally did like 18-19 minutes mixed meditation with eyes closed/open instead of 10 minutes, because I didn’t notice that i didn’t press go on a timer clock, so it didn’t start counting down the time 
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I cant believe where my life is going today. Yesterday I joined a holistic healing collective that works out of a local church. I get to use their sweet little chapel to offer pranayama and reiki healing. I was also invited by the minister to come to her service today to lead the congregation through a short meditation/breathing practice. Imagine… me, I used to smoke dope in church bathtooms, look at me now.
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Been back to doing this one quite a few times the last week.
It’s been awhile. It’s funny there are so many choices on insight timer I kind of got discouraged coming back to it. I think I’ll just stick with this tried and true one. Hoping to get back to it more often again.
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It’s Meditopia app, right?
When I searched for Insight timer, the first result that I got was Meditopia 
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I’ll look for that one on there. I love insight timer I learned about it from this thread … now I use it morning and night!
LOL, I listen to a thunderstorm playlist when I sleep sometimes so it’s not alll just meditations 
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That’s been my fave go to. I use to keep trying new ones. There’s so many of them. I actually got overwhelmed and stopped for awhile. Now I just go to that one.
Love good thunderstorm noises.
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This found me very well this morning 
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@JazzyS see the one above Julia posted 
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OH wow! thanks for tagging me. Will check it out 
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