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No One Is An Island

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Meditation
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This brief guided visualization is an invitation to engage imaginatively with the interconnectedness of your own life. 'No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.' (Donne, 'Meditation XVII'). 'God is making room in my heart for compassion: the awareness that where my life begins is where your life begins; the awareness that the sensitiveness to your needs cannot be separated from the sensitiveness to my needs; the awareness that the joys of my heart are never mine alone – nor are my sorrows.' (Howard Thurman, 'Meditations of the Heart')