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By: Christi Ortiz

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By Christi Ortiz

Your meditation must flow

into your daily life

And your daily life

must flow into your meditation

so that right action

becomes your first response

Liberation is not an escape

from reality

but a descent into it

Christi Ortiz
Christi Ortiz
Christi Ortiz is a licensed marriage and family therapist by profession and a poet by passion.  She enjoys trying to put to words to that which is wordless and give voice to the dynamic and wild spiritual journey called life. She lives in Spokane with her husband and two children, Emmanuel and Grace. She loves the outdoors and meditating in the early mornings which gives rise to her poetry.

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