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		<title>Cherie&#8217;s Place &#8211; Thought for the Week</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2026 19:01:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you respond consciously, what you want will happen. If you react compulsively, what someone else wants will happen.
Sadhguru

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>If you respond consciously, what you want will happen. If you react compulsively, what someone else wants will happen.</strong></p>
<p><em>Sadhguru</em></p>
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		<title>Cherie&#8217;s Place &#8211; Thought for the Week</title>
		<link>http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/index.php/2015/05/10/cheries-place-thought-for-the-week-308/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2015 19:09:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lord, grant that I may not so much seek to be loved as to love. 
Saint Francis of Assisi

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Lord, grant that I may not so much seek to be loved as to love. </strong></p>
<p><em>Saint Francis of Assisi</em></p>
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		<title>Come And Sit A While With Me</title>
		<link>http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/index.php/2015/03/14/come-and-sit-a-while-with-me/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2015 23:43:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CherryPie</dc:creator>
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Then, I am still and wait here in the silence,
Until you come and sit awhile with me.
You raise me up, so I can stand on mountains
You raise me up, to walk on stormy seas
I am strong, when I am on your shoulders
You raise me up&#8230; to more than I can be.

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<blockquote><p><strong>Then, I am still and wait here in the silence,<br />
Until you come and sit awhile with me.</strong></p>
<p><strong>You raise me up, so I can stand on mountains<br />
You raise me up, to walk on stormy seas<br />
I am strong, when I am on your shoulders<br />
You raise me up&#8230; to more than I can be.</strong></p></blockquote>
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		<title>Cherie&#8217;s Place &#8211; Thought for the Week</title>
		<link>http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/index.php/2013/12/22/cheries-place-thought-for-the-week-239/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Dec 2013 20:50:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CherryPie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The true knowledge of music is nothing other than this: to know the ordering of all separate things and how the Divine Reason has distributed them; for this ordering of all separate things into one, achieved by skillful reason, makes the sweetest and truest harmony with the Divine Song.
Hermes Trismegitus

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>The true knowledge of music is nothing other than this: to know the ordering of all separate things and how the Divine Reason has distributed them; for this ordering of all separate things into one, achieved by skillful reason, makes the sweetest and truest harmony with the Divine Song.</strong></p>
<p><em>Hermes Trismegitus</em></p>
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		<title>Things That Make You Go Hmm&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/index.php/2013/07/11/things-that-make-you-go-hmm/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jul 2013 07:38:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CherryPie</dc:creator>
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Recently I was inspired by a post entitled &#8216;The Gift of Gates&#8216;, it chimed with things that have happened to me over the years and reminded me of some unusual events leading up to and after my dad passed away.
I invite you to join me at Vision &#38; Verb where my latest post details some of [...]]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Recently I was inspired by a post entitled &#8216;<a href="http://iaincarstairs.wordpress.com/2013/06/24/the-gate-of-gifts/" target="_blank">The Gift of Gates</a>&#8216;, it chimed with things that have happened to me over the years and reminded me of some unusual events leading up to and after my dad passed away.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I invite you to join me at <a href="http://www.visionandverb.com/" target="_blank">Vision &amp; Verb</a> where my latest post details some of those unusual events &#8211; &#8216;<a href="http://www.visionandverb.com/at-home/2013/7/11/things-that-make-you-go-hmm.html" target="_blank">Things That Make You Go Hmm</a>&#8216;&#8230;</p>
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