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The Collected Writings of Brian J. Mueller

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Essential Truth #5

Your life is not about you.

Join me in a sigh.
I say join me in a sigh...

In this shrug is your acceptance,
your body’s way of making peace
and at last receiving this message:
Your life is not about you.

Now that you know
you will see it everywhere,
everything alive and busily giving
body and soul for no reason
but in love of this world.

Do not feed the pain
you hold down deep inside.
Reverse the flow of energy
from within to without
thus freeing your mind,
your body and your soul,
to live in communion
with all things.

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