Daily Meditation: Living Without Fear

Daily Meditation: Living Without Fear
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We all need help maintaining our personal spiritual practice. We hope that these daily meditations, prayers and mindful awareness exercises can be part of bringing spirituality alive in your life.

Today's meditation features the poetry of Rabindranath Tagore, a Bengali poet who lived during the turn of the 20th century and left a trove of lush, spiritual poetry as his legacy.

Where The Mind Is Without Fear

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high
Where knowledge is free
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments
By narrow domestic walls
Where words come out from the depth of truth
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way
Into the dreary desert sand of dead habit
Where the mind is led forward by thee
Into ever-widening thought and action
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.

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Before You Go

Meditation 101 Reading List
Sharon Salzberg(01 of15)
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Loving-Kindness (credit:Amazon.com)
Sakyong Mipham, Pema Chodron(02 of15)
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Turning The Mind Into An Ally (credit:Amazon.com)
Shunryu Suzuki(03 of15)
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Not Always So (credit:Amazon.com)
Thich Nhat Hanh(04 of15)
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The Miracle of Mindfulness (credit:Amazon.com)
Victor Davich(05 of15)
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8 Minute Meditation (credit:Amazon.com)
Shunryu Suzuki(06 of15)
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Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind (credit:Amazon.com)
Sharon Salzberg(07 of15)
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Real Happiness (credit:Amazon.com)
Pema Chodron(08 of15)
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How To Meditate (credit:Amazon.com)
Chogyam Trungpa(09 of15)
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John Daido Loori(10 of15)
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Finding The Still Point (credit:Amazon.com)
Susan Piver(11 of15)
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Quiet Mind (credit:Amazon.com)
Jack Kornfield(12 of15)
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Meditation For Beginners (credit:Amazon.com)
John Daishin Buksbazen(13 of15)
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Joseph Goldstein(14 of15)
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The Experience Of Insight (credit:Amazon.com)
Bhante Gunaratana(15 of15)
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Mindfulness In Plain English (credit:Amazon.com)