new fortune

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@@ -42322,4 +42322,13 @@ with its teachings about duhkha, the first noble truth.  They, like the
 inhabitants of all the other nonhuman realms, are victims of their karma and
 are unable to practice a spiritual path to gain liberation.
   -- Reginald A. Ray, in "Indestructible Truth", published by Shambhala Publications
+~
+The Zen monk Thich Nhat Hanh writes, "I like to walk alone on country paths,
+rice plants and wild grasses on both sides, putting each foot down on the
+earth in mindfulness, knowing that I walk on the wondrous earth.  In such
+moments, existence is a miraculous and mysterious reality.  People usually
+consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle.  But I think the real
+miracle is to walk on earth...  a miracle we don’t even recognize."
+  -- from Jan Chozen Bays, MD, "How to Train a Wild Elephant & Other Adventures
+     in Mindfulness", published by Shambhala Publications