Blessed Birthday to Cooran

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Happy Birthday ! ! !
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Happy Birthday, Cooran! :smile:
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Happy birthday cooran. You are an inspiration to my practice and true exemplar!
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Have a great one Cooran!

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, CHRIS!!!
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Greetings Chris,

Hope you enjoy a lovely birthday.

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Chris,

Hope you enjoy a lovely birthday.
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Best wishes on your Birthday, Chris! :smile:
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Many happy returns!
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Happy Birthday Chris!

And many more to come.
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How about some cake??

Happy birthday...again!
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“No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.”
- Cormac McCarthy, The Road

Learn this from the waters:
in mountain clefts and chasms,
loud gush the streamlets,
but great rivers flow silently.
- Sutta Nipata 3.725

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Thank-you everyone for your good wishes! Had a delicious birthday dinner with family - and the football team I follow had a great win! :woohoo:

With metta,
Chris
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