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    When You Sit With a Dying Person

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    How to look beyond grief and find peace while sitting at the bedside of a loved one who is dying is explained in comparison to childbirth. The joy…

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    Ardis Mayo
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    Learning to Sit Alone With Feelings

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    Learning to sit is a common Buddhist practice but for this author, the road to sitting was marked by an illness accompanied by cognitive loss that did not…

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