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Cook: The biggest small thing

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• What: 8-week course on Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction• Where: Center for Mindful Living• When: Tuesdays, Jan. 20 – March 10• How: Register at centermindfulliving.org

There are few things as beautiful and hopeful as a man or woman sitting still in meditation.

If someone was sculpting an iconic image of the coming 21st century — the way football has the Heisman statue — I nominate a sitting man or meditating woman as that image.

All our other images — a Texting Man? a Rush-Hour Woman? — do not have the spiritual power able to meet the growing demands this society places on each of us.

In a time of disillusionment and fear, meditation is an act of courage and affection.