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Oooh Jen, so good! Goosebumps. I’ll read this over and over. This is the 2024 version of “meditations”. Stoicism of the Light. Bless you. What we seek is definitely seeking us. 🙏❤️ What a wonderful article.

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This is the kindest compliment I’ve ever received!

I’ll reread your words over and over again to remind myself why I’m doing this.

Thank you so much!!!

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Keep writing! We need you.

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The Stoic Meditations of Marcus Aurelius are so good!

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Agreed!

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Love this! Thank you for taking the time to write this with such intention

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I truly appreciate your compliment ♥️ it means the world to me!

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Dec 12, 2023Liked by Jen Hitze

These are all excellent but as a writer who often feels like writing is a true labor of love and who doesn’t want to be yet another person who’s producing content regularly just to keep up with the Joneses in the Attention Economy, I especially appreciated the one about how the best writing takes time. This tells me that the novel I started in 2021, only to file it away halfway through 2022, is still waiting for me, and it still might develop into a finished product to be proud of, just as I was with my first (and so far only) novel, “The Teacher and the Tree Man,” which I started in the year 2000, and after filing it away in 2003 because I’d met my future wife and moved to Japan to begin a new life with year, I returned to it in 2007 and then spent several years finishing it up.

In short, each writer, and our output timeline, is unique. We don’t all have to prolifically publish to be successful.

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Couldn’t agree more Bryan!

I hope to read your novels when they are ready 🙏

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Yes. Thank you. "A persistent notion throughout time asserts that the origin of everything is a non-physical, intelligent, and benevolent spirit or entity, and that we share a connection with this spirit."

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🥰 It’s not something we talk about everyday, but it’s more important than everything else.

The lack of connection we have to this omnipresent, metaphysical essence - whatever you want to call it - is the root of most of our problems.

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Excellent post ! Amazing and thank you!

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Hi Jen, check out : Many Lives, Many Masters and Same Soul, Many Bodies, by bestselling author Brian L. Weiss, M.D. Both books are groundbreaking healing methods, and provocative bestsellers.

SimonandSchuster.com. ( Buy the last edition of Many Lives, Many Masters, with a new afterword by the author Brian L. Weiss, M.D.) The first edition, copyright 1988.

Happy Holidays and a Healthy New Year.

Larry Inn

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Kailua, HI 96734

Ph: 808-376-8814.

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Thank you Larry! I’ll check it out

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This is very good Jen and I look forward to following your writing (thank you for subscribing to Pitchfork Papers, which is how I found you).

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Thank you!!

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We are Spiritual beings experiencing Physical life on Mother Earth.

Here is a book for your personal library:

PROOF of SPIRITUAL PHENOMENA: A Neuroscientist’s Discovery of the Ineffable Mysteries of the Universe, by Mona Sobhani, Ph.D. copyright 2022. www.ParkStPress.com. (MonaSobhaniPhD.com).

To purchase a copy of her book: InnerTraditions.com, Order by phone (800)-246-8648, 24 Hours, 7 days a week. Happy Holidays Jen ! Aldous Huxley’s The Perennial Philosophy is a great book.

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Thank you Larry! Will check this out!

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Dear Jen,

So beautifully and poignantly said.

Bravo.

With admiration,

🙏

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Thank you Rodrigo! ♥️🙏

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Thank you for following. Jen Hitze's words insight, time, creation, knowledge, and intuition are some of my favorite idioms. When I think about a piece of calligraphy, I write intuitively based on these meanings. I search deeply, read books, and choose characters by thinking about who and why, encouragement, courage, and growth. See an advanced future. Very influential to learn. I'm curious, so I'll read it. thank you very much.

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Thank you Yoshiko! Your art and calligraphy is incredible. I can feel the depth and emotion within and look forward to receiving your newsletter as well!

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The Perennial Philosophy is a great way to syncretize the world's diverse spiritual traditions. Interesting and inspiring article, thank you.

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Thanks so much!

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