In this compassion meditation Julie Potiker guides you to a place of calm and peace. She completes the meditation with the poem, "Birthday Blessing", by Janice Steinberg.

Birthday Blessing by Janice Steinberg
Whatever makes you weepmay it open your eyesto beauty
Where your heart has hardenedmay it crack open and letthe light flood in
Whatever worry squirrel-cages in your mindmay it animate your creativity
Whatever pettinessworms through your doormay it teach you to laugh gentlyat your very human self
May all the wrong turns you’ve takenthe fumbles, stumblesevery epic screw-uplead you to thismeadowthis riverthis belovedthis workthis burning bushthat was waiting for you

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