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        A Present of Presence 
        Being present to the present is, itself, a spiritual practice of great 
        magnitude. It is 
        a practice that nudges us to awareness, alertness and attention. It is 
        aided by a 
        desire to live the human life as fully and significantly as possible. 
        There are 
        numerous distractions and diversions that threaten our resolve to be present 
        to the 
        present, but the promise of the practice is that we will avoid coming 
        to the end of 
        our lives feeling as though we've never lived at all. 
         
        --From the essay "Simplicity of Time"  
        by The Rev. Canon Renée Miller 
      
      
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