Compassion In and Out Meditation - Sleep Version

Enjoy this open awareness meditation led by Julie Potiker. She completes the meditation with the poem, "I Pray to the Birds", by Terry Tempest Williams.

This version ends with music allowing you to drift off into sleep.

I Pray to the Birds, by Terry Tempest Williams

I pray to the birds.I pray to the birds because I believe they will carry the messages of my heart upward.I pray to them because I believe in their existence, the way their songs begin and end each day—the invocations and benedictions of Earth.I pray to the birds because they remind me of what I love rather than what I fear.And at the end of my prayers, they teach me how to listen.

-Terry Tempest Williams

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