If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see our parents and all
generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the continuation of each of these people.
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If I say, "Let only darkness cover me, And the light about me be night," Even the darkness is not dark to You, The night dazzles as with the sun; The darkness is a light to You.
~ Nan Merrill, from her interpretation of "Psalm 139" in PSALMS FOR PRAYING