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\n‘Strangers you meet on the street can turn into good neighbours’  (Photo: Irene Bom)<\/span><\/p>\n

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Have you considered activities like meeting people, gardening, swimming and journaling as a spiritual practice?<\/div>\n

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Incidentally, this is the 150th Prayer Matters blog post. Thank you for sharing in the spiritual practice that is this blog.<\/em><\/div>\n

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Gretchen Champoux … on gardening<\/h3>\n

Gardening connects us to life\u2019s natural rhythms, the gifts of each season, the wonder\u00a0of creation and the natural world. For me, gardening and gratitude go hand in\u00a0hand … I can\u2019t help but experience the garden. When I do, I am pulled to the\u00a0present moment so much so that I can paradoxically lose sense of time \u2014 especially if\u00a0I\u2019m digging away!<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.asacredjourney.net\/<\/a>
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Sharon Salzberg … on swimming<\/h3>\n

I thought of meditation when Willow described her experience (swimming laps). When she slowed down and focused only on the movement and the effects it had on her body, she was able to\u00a0let go of the doubts, fears, and comparisons in order to experience what the body presented to her at that moment. The experience of being buoyed along in the water, of her muscles moving through it, was a pure sensation of being alive, once she got her comparing mind out of the way.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/onbeing.org<\/a>
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Austin Kleon … on journaling<\/h3>\n

When I write in my diary, I often try to start\u00a0with Nicholson Baker\u2019s advice: <\/p>\n

If you ask yourself, \u2018What\u2019s the best thing that happened today?\u2019 it actually forces a certain kind of cheerful retrospection that pulls up from the recent past things to write about that you wouldn\u2019t otherwise think about. If you ask yourself, \u2018What happened today?\u2019 it\u2019s very likely that you\u2019re going to remember the worst thing, because you\u2019ve had to deal with it \u2013 you\u2019ve had to rush somewhere or somebody said something mean to you \u2013 that\u2019s what you\u2019re going to remember. But if you ask what the best thing is, it\u2019s going to be some particular slant of light, or some wonderful expression somebody had, or some particularly delicious salad. I mean, you never know \u2026 <\/div>\n

 
\nhttps:\/\/austinkleon.com<\/a>
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From the blog<\/strong>
\nUp to us<\/a> – on the joys of a walking holiday
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You have to slow down and savour the words. You can't rush it. 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