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Former President & CEO of multiple hospital systems and founding president & CEO of 20-hospital OhioHealth, best selling author, film artist, ordained minister, composer, published poet, syndicated T.V. host, trial attorney, federal prosecutor and Municipal Court Judge. Erie is internationally known as the founder of the Radical Loving Care(R)movement. He also heads Erie Chapman Foundation, Dane Dakota Productions, LLC, and Chapman Health International, Inc.

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Former President & CEO of multiple hospital systems and founding president & CEO of 20-hospital OhioHealth, best selling author, film artist, ordained minister, composer, published poet, syndicated T.V. host, trial attorney, federal prosecutor and Municipal Court Judge. Erie is internationally known as the founder of the Radical Loving Care(R)movement. He also heads Erie Chapman Foundation, Dane Dakota Productions, LLC, and Chapman Health International, Inc.

Meditation: The Flowers of Your Humanity

We all have to find what best fosters the flowers of our humanity in this life and dedicate ourselves to that.                        –Joseph Campbell

Rose_2_1 In 1970, I aimed a camera at a purple flower and snapped the shutter. I thought the photo was pretty good. It wasn’t. The picture was as ordinary and plastic looking as a fake smile. Eleven years and thousands of photos later, I took the picture you see here. Across those years of looking, I came to see in a different way…

Find five minutes now. Better yet, find twenty. Within the quiet of closed eyes, can you see the flowers of your humanity blooming?  Had you forgotten they were there? If you nurture these flowers every day, will it help them to grow so that they bloom without as well as within?

Find a quiet place within.

Close your eyes.

Let the world go.

Listen to the rhythm of your breath.

In the dark of closed eyes, watch

the flowers of your humanity

bloom in your heart.

Rest.

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2 responses to “Meditation: The Flowers of Your Humanity”

  1. Karen York Avatar
    Karen York

    When we make time to appreciate the intricacies of creation, the dew resting on the rose, the sparkle in your child’s eyes, we are truly living.
    Karen York
    Alive Hospice, Nashville

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  2. Mackenzie Lane Avatar
    Mackenzie Lane

    I don’t know what your first photo looked like, but this one is very fine. Thanks for setting this up so visitors to your site can click on the photo and see it enlarged. The image brightened my day.
    MLane
    Houston

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