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From the 2020 Bob Roth FB Group “2x Daily Transcendental Meditation Call Participants” . The 2x’s daily quotes/poems by Visual Storyteller, Kelly Minnick, read by CEO of the DLF, Bob Roth ~ 2x’s Daily Global Group Zoom Meditation calls.

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12/11/25 PM TM

Mind the Time

“I’ll mind the time
I’ll mend your soul
Just open up
And let it go
Through meditation
Peace is designed
Send it to the world
I’ll mind the time

With every breath
Your soul will climb

We all must shine
With the dust of stars
I’ll mind the time.”

~ Marc Goldsmith
December 11, 2025 at 11:44 PM
12/11/25 AM TM

Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening
“Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow.
My little horse must think it queer

And miles to go before I sleep.”

~ Robert Frost
December 11, 2025 at 12:39 PM
12/10/25 PM TM

“Never say you have no time to be still, to find that inner peace.

You can do all that has to be done far better when you have taken time to get into tune with yourself, before the start of a busy day.”

~ Eileen Caddy founder of Findhorn (1917-2006)
December 10, 2025 at 11:36 PM
12/10/25 AM TM

“Making the decision to have a child is momentous.

It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around

outside your body.”

~ Elizabeth Stone
December 10, 2025 at 12:37 PM
12/9/25 PM TM

“The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy,
which hangs upon tomorrow and loses today.

What are you looking at?
To what goal are you straining?
The whole future lies in uncertainty:
live immediately.”
~ Marcus Aurelius
December 10, 2025 at 12:03 AM
12/9/25 AM TM

Aware

“When I found the door
I found the vine leaves
speaking among themselves in abundant
whispers.

I liked the sound
of such private voices. Next time
I’ll move like cautious sunlight, open
the door by fractions, eavesdrop
peacefully.”

~ Denise Levertov
December 9, 2025 at 12:41 PM
12/8/25 PM TM

“Most of us live as if the next moment will contain the peace this one lacks.

But peace does not wait ahead; it waits underneath.

Beneath every breath, beneath every heartbeat, it is already complete.”

~ Thomas Merton
December 9, 2025 at 12:26 AM
12/8/25 AM TM

Aubade

“So much depends
on relationships,
the saucer to the cup
the water to the teapot
the moon to the sun.
I think all this,
this morning
as I muse how much
depends, on how I get along…

Easy for you, I say
Easy does it says
this morning’s sun.
Easy does it.”
~ Emily Lewis Penn
December 8, 2025 at 2:52 PM
12/7/25 PM TM

“It is not enough to be busy;

so are the ants.

The question is:

What are we busy about?”

~ Henry David Thoreau
December 8, 2025 at 1:33 AM
12/7/25 AM TM

“Whatever wishes to grow within you—a curiosity, a talent, an interest—

Time to stop being afraid, and time to show up as yourself.”
~ Dr. James Hollis
December 7, 2025 at 2:14 PM
12/6/25 PM TM

Beannacht (New Year Blessing—early)

“On the day when
The weight deadens
On your shoulders

May the protection of the ancestors be you
And so may a slow
Wind work these words
Of love around you,
An invisible cloak
To mind your life.”
~ John O’Donohue
December 6, 2025 at 11:35 PM
12/6/25 PM TM

“Be gentle with yourself.

Be kind to yourself.

You may not be perfect,

but you are all you've got to work with.

The process of becoming who you will be

begins first with the total acceptance of who you are.”

~ Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
December 6, 2025 at 2:39 PM
12/5/25 PM TM
Sea Fever
“I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely…
To the gull’s way and the whale’s way where the wind’s like a whetted knife;
And all I ask is a merry yarn from a laughing fellow-rover,
And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick’s over.”
~ John Masefield
December 6, 2025 at 12:34 AM
12/5/25 AM TM

Now We Are Six
“When I was One,
I had just begun.
When I was Two,

But now I am Six,
I'm as clever as clever,
So I think I'll be six now for ever and ever.”
~ AA Milne

Wind On The Hill
“No one can tell me,
Nobody knows,
Where the wind comes from,
Where the wind goes…

~ AA Milne
December 5, 2025 at 1:18 PM
12/4/25 PM TM

LIFE
“Life, believe, is not a dream
So dark as sages say;
Oft a little morning rain
Foretells a pleasant day.
Sometimes there are clouds of gloom,
But these are transient all;

The day of trial bear,
For gloriously, victoriously,
Can courage quell despair!”

~ Charlotte Brontë
December 5, 2025 at 12:17 AM
12/3/25 PM TM

It Felt Love

“How did the rose
Ever open its heart
And give to this world
All its beauty?
It felt the encouragement of light
Against its being,
Otherwise,
We all remain
Too frightened.”

~ Hafiz, 1325-1390, Persian poet and lyricist
December 4, 2025 at 12:41 AM
12/3/25 PM TM

“I hear and I forget.

I see and I remember.

I do and I understand.”

~ Xunzi (pronounced shun-tzu) was a Chinese philosopher who lived during the Warring States period (475 BCE - 221 BCE). He was a Confucian philosopher who believed in the innate goodness of human beings…
December 3, 2025 at 12:38 PM
12/2/25 PM TM

PERHAPS THE WORLD ENDS HERE

The world begins at a kitchen table. No Matter what, we must eat to live.

The gifts of earth are brought and prepared, set on

Perhaps the world will end at the kitchen table, while we are laughing and crying, eating of the last sweet bite.
~Joy Harjo
December 3, 2025 at 12:06 AM
12/2/25 AM TM

YOU

“If every single person who has liked you in your
lifetime were to light up on a map, it would create
the most glitteringly beautiful network you
could imagine.
You’re trailing a bright pathway that you don’t even know about.
What a thing. What a thing indeed.”
~ Donna Ashworth
December 2, 2025 at 1:12 PM
12/1/25 PM TM

“Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.
~ Allen Saunders

“All journeys have secret destinations
of which the traveler is unaware.”
~ Martin Buber

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
~ Soren Kierkegaard
December 2, 2025 at 2:25 AM
12/1/25 AM TM

“Though we may be learned by another's knowledge,

we can never be wise but by our own experience.”

~ Michel de Montaigne

“Sometimes it is a good choice not to choose at all.”

~ Michel de Montaigne, (1533-1592), French author, humanistic philosopher, and statesman
December 1, 2025 at 1:05 PM
11/30/25 PM TM

Belonging

“And if it’s true we are alone,



those who sometimes feel alone—
we are the dust, the dust that hopes,
a rising of dust, a thrill of dust,
the dust that dances in the light
with all other dust, the dust
that makes the world.”
~ Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
November 30, 2025 at 11:45 PM
11/30/25 AM TM

“Do not be dismayed by the brokenness of the world.
All things break. And all things can be mended.Not with time, as they say, but with intention.So go. Love intentionally, extravagantly, unconditionally.The broken world awaits in darkness for the light that is you.”
~ L. R. Knost
November 30, 2025 at 2:09 PM
11/29/25 PM TM

“In presence, every breath becomes prayer,
and every moment holy.”
~ Thich Nhat Hahn

Hokusai Says
~ Roger Keyes
“Hokusai says look carefully.
Love, feel, let life take you by the hand.
Let life live through you.”
~ Katsushika Hokusai
November 29, 2025 at 11:48 PM
11/29/25 AM TM

“People who need help

sometimes look a lot like people

who don’t need help.”

~ Glennon Doyle

“The only meaningful thing we can offer one another is love.

Not advice, not questions about our choices,

not suggestions for the future, just love.”

~ Glennon Doyle
November 29, 2025 at 2:11 PM