In the monastery, I live on the "Margins of Inclusion." While I am here I am not included in the other places I live with the events and friends I have there. People's lives go on without me. I am not completely forgotten. That is why I live on the margin of inclusion. Whenever you step aside, silence or turn off your cell phone, iPad, Android or whatever, and sit in silence and solitude, you are going to the margins of inclusion. You are just outside of where people can connect with you. But this is where you want to be in meditation so that you have no rivals, or busyness that gets in the way of you and the Presence that seems to reveal itself when you rest beyond the margins of inclusion. For many people who say they do not believe, I suggest that God is still with them, beyond the margins of their including God in their life. God does not go away simply because someone says they do not believe. Just because someone does not believe in love nor that anyone loves them, does not prevent someone from loving them. I believe that my friends love me and have not forgotten me. They are just having fun and a full life without me. It keeps me humble, being on the margins of inclusion. Hello out there!
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I can use this is my life. Thanks.
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