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Kalisa Augustine
Aug 13, 2022
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I remember reading about monks who would spend months and months making very delicate and intricate works of art out of colored sand. Tedious tasks requiring full presence and concentration to complete. Once the works were done, the master would ask the monks to wipe their slates clean, erasing all evidence of the wor…

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