Live and Die Awake

Chapter 19

Divine Connections

6:51Read by Julie Wright Halbert

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From the book

Reflection Pause: Divine Connections Within and Beyond

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Please move gently through these questions:

  1. What did you notice during the meditation in your body, emotions, or awareness?
  2. What felt most meaningful or real to you?
  3. Where in your life do you sense connection to yourself, to others, to nature, to loved ones that have passed, or to something greater than you?
  4. If someone came to mind during the meditation: What did you feel in remembering them?
    What love continues between you, even now?
  5. What part of you feels unchanged or enduring?
  6. Living and Dying Awake invites us to carry awareness into daily life.

How might remembering this connection influence how you live, love, or move forward?

  1. Complete this sentence: I carry forward ______________________________.

Closing Integration

Place your hand over your heart and take one slow breath. Connection does not end.
It lives through us, as us, and beyond us.

I am connected.
I am held.

I carry love forward

Chapter 19: Divine Connections · Live and Die Awake