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Meditation is like the breeze that comes in when you leave the window open; but if you deliberately keep it open, deliberately invite it to come, it will never appear. ✨ Jiddu Krishnamurti, Evelyne Blau (2002). Meditations, p.13, Krishnamurti Foundation Trust Ltd.
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