DLF Visual Storyteller Kelly (2x Daily TM)
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From the 2020 Bob Roth FB Group “2x Daily Transcendental Meditation Call Participants” . The 2x’s daily quotes/poems by Visual Storyteller, Kelly Minnick, read by CEO of the DLF, Bob Roth ~ 2x’s Daily Global Group Zoom Meditation calls.
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11/18/25 PM TM
“In an age of speed, I began to think,
…
in an age of constant movement, nothing is more urgent than sitting still.”
~ Pico Iyer
“… nowadays it’s often freedom from information, the chance to sit still, that feels like the ultimate prize.”
~ Pico Iyer
“In an age of speed, I began to think,
…
in an age of constant movement, nothing is more urgent than sitting still.”
~ Pico Iyer
“… nowadays it’s often freedom from information, the chance to sit still, that feels like the ultimate prize.”
~ Pico Iyer
November 18, 2025 at 1:33 PM
11/18/25 PM TM
“In an age of speed, I began to think,
…
in an age of constant movement, nothing is more urgent than sitting still.”
~ Pico Iyer
“… nowadays it’s often freedom from information, the chance to sit still, that feels like the ultimate prize.”
~ Pico Iyer
“In an age of speed, I began to think,
…
in an age of constant movement, nothing is more urgent than sitting still.”
~ Pico Iyer
“… nowadays it’s often freedom from information, the chance to sit still, that feels like the ultimate prize.”
~ Pico Iyer
11/17/25 PM TM
“I have a theory that the moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass
…
It is like peeling an onion.
…
I am always looking for the hidden meaning, the secret message. I am always trying to understand the mystery of life.”
~ Henry Miller
“I have a theory that the moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass
…
It is like peeling an onion.
…
I am always looking for the hidden meaning, the secret message. I am always trying to understand the mystery of life.”
~ Henry Miller
November 17, 2025 at 11:42 PM
11/17/25 PM TM
“I have a theory that the moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass
…
It is like peeling an onion.
…
I am always looking for the hidden meaning, the secret message. I am always trying to understand the mystery of life.”
~ Henry Miller
“I have a theory that the moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass
…
It is like peeling an onion.
…
I am always looking for the hidden meaning, the secret message. I am always trying to understand the mystery of life.”
~ Henry Miller
11/17/25 AM TM
“It's a funny thing about life,
once you begin to take note of the things you are grateful for,
you begin to lose sight of the things that you lack.”
~ Germany Kent
“It's a funny thing about life,
once you begin to take note of the things you are grateful for,
you begin to lose sight of the things that you lack.”
~ Germany Kent
November 17, 2025 at 12:35 PM
11/17/25 AM TM
“It's a funny thing about life,
once you begin to take note of the things you are grateful for,
you begin to lose sight of the things that you lack.”
~ Germany Kent
“It's a funny thing about life,
once you begin to take note of the things you are grateful for,
you begin to lose sight of the things that you lack.”
~ Germany Kent
11/16/25 PM TM
“A door opens
in the center
of our being,
and we seem
to fall through it
into immense depths,
which although
they are infinite—
are still accessible to us.
All eternity seems
to have become ours
in this one placid
and breathless contact.”
~ Thomas Merton
“A door opens
in the center
of our being,
and we seem
to fall through it
into immense depths,
which although
they are infinite—
are still accessible to us.
All eternity seems
to have become ours
in this one placid
and breathless contact.”
~ Thomas Merton
November 17, 2025 at 12:31 AM
11/16/25 PM TM
“A door opens
in the center
of our being,
and we seem
to fall through it
into immense depths,
which although
they are infinite—
are still accessible to us.
All eternity seems
to have become ours
in this one placid
and breathless contact.”
~ Thomas Merton
“A door opens
in the center
of our being,
and we seem
to fall through it
into immense depths,
which although
they are infinite—
are still accessible to us.
All eternity seems
to have become ours
in this one placid
and breathless contact.”
~ Thomas Merton
11/16/25 AM TM
The Guest House
“This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.
A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes...
Welcome and entertain them all!
Be grateful for whoever comes,
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond.”
~ Rumi
The Guest House
“This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.
A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes...
Welcome and entertain them all!
Be grateful for whoever comes,
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond.”
~ Rumi
November 16, 2025 at 2:51 PM
11/16/25 AM TM
The Guest House
“This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.
A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes...
Welcome and entertain them all!
Be grateful for whoever comes,
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond.”
~ Rumi
The Guest House
“This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.
A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes...
Welcome and entertain them all!
Be grateful for whoever comes,
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond.”
~ Rumi
11/15/25 PM TM
“The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion.
…
– this knowledge, this feeling … that is the core of the true religious sentiment. In this sense, and in this sense alone, I rank myself among profoundly religious men.”
~ Albert Einstein
“The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion.
…
– this knowledge, this feeling … that is the core of the true religious sentiment. In this sense, and in this sense alone, I rank myself among profoundly religious men.”
~ Albert Einstein
November 16, 2025 at 12:04 AM
11/15/25 PM TM
“The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion.
…
– this knowledge, this feeling … that is the core of the true religious sentiment. In this sense, and in this sense alone, I rank myself among profoundly religious men.”
~ Albert Einstein
“The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion.
…
– this knowledge, this feeling … that is the core of the true religious sentiment. In this sense, and in this sense alone, I rank myself among profoundly religious men.”
~ Albert Einstein
11/15/25 AM TM
“Happiness
is not a matter
of intensity
but of balance
and order
and rhythm
and harmony.”
~ Thomas Merton, 1915-1968, American Trappist monk, writer,
theologian, poet, and scholar of comparative religion.
“Happiness
is not a matter
of intensity
but of balance
and order
and rhythm
and harmony.”
~ Thomas Merton, 1915-1968, American Trappist monk, writer,
theologian, poet, and scholar of comparative religion.
November 15, 2025 at 2:03 PM
11/15/25 AM TM
“Happiness
is not a matter
of intensity
but of balance
and order
and rhythm
and harmony.”
~ Thomas Merton, 1915-1968, American Trappist monk, writer,
theologian, poet, and scholar of comparative religion.
“Happiness
is not a matter
of intensity
but of balance
and order
and rhythm
and harmony.”
~ Thomas Merton, 1915-1968, American Trappist monk, writer,
theologian, poet, and scholar of comparative religion.
11/14/25 PM TM
“Rivers do not drink their own water;
trees do not eat their own fruit;
the sun does not shine on itself
and flowers do not spread
their fragrance for themselves.
…
Life is good when you are happy;
but much better when others
are happy because of you.”
~ Vedic proverb
“Rivers do not drink their own water;
trees do not eat their own fruit;
the sun does not shine on itself
and flowers do not spread
their fragrance for themselves.
…
Life is good when you are happy;
but much better when others
are happy because of you.”
~ Vedic proverb
November 15, 2025 at 1:22 AM
11/14/25 PM TM
“Rivers do not drink their own water;
trees do not eat their own fruit;
the sun does not shine on itself
and flowers do not spread
their fragrance for themselves.
…
Life is good when you are happy;
but much better when others
are happy because of you.”
~ Vedic proverb
“Rivers do not drink their own water;
trees do not eat their own fruit;
the sun does not shine on itself
and flowers do not spread
their fragrance for themselves.
…
Life is good when you are happy;
but much better when others
are happy because of you.”
~ Vedic proverb
11/14/25 AM TM
“We carry inside us the wonders we seek outside us.”
~ Rumi, a 13th-century Persian poet, Islamic scholar, and Sufi mystic.
“We carry inside us the wonders we seek outside us.”
~ Rumi, a 13th-century Persian poet, Islamic scholar, and Sufi mystic.
November 14, 2025 at 12:35 PM
11/14/25 AM TM
“We carry inside us the wonders we seek outside us.”
~ Rumi, a 13th-century Persian poet, Islamic scholar, and Sufi mystic.
“We carry inside us the wonders we seek outside us.”
~ Rumi, a 13th-century Persian poet, Islamic scholar, and Sufi mystic.
11/13/25 PM TM
“Above all, do not lose your desire to walk:
every day I walk myself into a state of well-being
and walk away from every illness;
I have walked myself into my best thoughts
and I know of no thought so burdensome
that one cannot walk away from it.”
~ Søren Kierkegaard
“Above all, do not lose your desire to walk:
every day I walk myself into a state of well-being
and walk away from every illness;
I have walked myself into my best thoughts
and I know of no thought so burdensome
that one cannot walk away from it.”
~ Søren Kierkegaard
November 13, 2025 at 11:35 PM
11/13/25 PM TM
“Above all, do not lose your desire to walk:
every day I walk myself into a state of well-being
and walk away from every illness;
I have walked myself into my best thoughts
and I know of no thought so burdensome
that one cannot walk away from it.”
~ Søren Kierkegaard
“Above all, do not lose your desire to walk:
every day I walk myself into a state of well-being
and walk away from every illness;
I have walked myself into my best thoughts
and I know of no thought so burdensome
that one cannot walk away from it.”
~ Søren Kierkegaard
11/13/25 PM TM
“The bird a nest,
the spider a web,
man friendship.”
~ William Blake
“The bird a nest,
the spider a web,
man friendship.”
~ William Blake
November 13, 2025 at 12:35 PM
11/13/25 PM TM
“The bird a nest,
the spider a web,
man friendship.”
~ William Blake
“The bird a nest,
the spider a web,
man friendship.”
~ William Blake
11/12/25 PM TM
“Until we have begun to go without them,
we fail to realize how unnecessary many things are.
We’ve been using them not because we needed them
but because we had them.”
~ Seneca
“Until we have begun to go without them,
we fail to realize how unnecessary many things are.
We’ve been using them not because we needed them
but because we had them.”
~ Seneca
November 12, 2025 at 11:37 PM
11/12/25 PM TM
“Until we have begun to go without them,
we fail to realize how unnecessary many things are.
We’ve been using them not because we needed them
but because we had them.”
~ Seneca
“Until we have begun to go without them,
we fail to realize how unnecessary many things are.
We’ve been using them not because we needed them
but because we had them.”
~ Seneca
11/12/25 AM TM
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
~ Anais Nin
“Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning of your soul—you create suffering.”
~ Anais Nin
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
~ Anais Nin
“Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning of your soul—you create suffering.”
~ Anais Nin
November 12, 2025 at 12:35 PM
11/12/25 AM TM
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
~ Anais Nin
“Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning of your soul—you create suffering.”
~ Anais Nin
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
~ Anais Nin
“Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning of your soul—you create suffering.”
~ Anais Nin
11/11/25 PM TM
“Most people only see our cover,
the minority read only the introduction,
many people believe the critics.
Few will know our content.”
~ Emile Zola, 1840-1902, French writer
“Most people only see our cover,
the minority read only the introduction,
many people believe the critics.
Few will know our content.”
~ Emile Zola, 1840-1902, French writer
November 12, 2025 at 12:04 AM
11/11/25 PM TM
“Most people only see our cover,
the minority read only the introduction,
many people believe the critics.
Few will know our content.”
~ Emile Zola, 1840-1902, French writer
“Most people only see our cover,
the minority read only the introduction,
many people believe the critics.
Few will know our content.”
~ Emile Zola, 1840-1902, French writer
11/11/25 AM TM
YOU
“If every single person who has liked you in your
lifetime were to light up on a map, it would create
the most glitteringly beautiful network you
could imagine.
…
What a thing indeed.”
~ Donna Ashworth
YOU
“If every single person who has liked you in your
lifetime were to light up on a map, it would create
the most glitteringly beautiful network you
could imagine.
…
What a thing indeed.”
~ Donna Ashworth
November 11, 2025 at 1:30 PM
11/11/25 AM TM
YOU
“If every single person who has liked you in your
lifetime were to light up on a map, it would create
the most glitteringly beautiful network you
could imagine.
…
What a thing indeed.”
~ Donna Ashworth
YOU
“If every single person who has liked you in your
lifetime were to light up on a map, it would create
the most glitteringly beautiful network you
could imagine.
…
What a thing indeed.”
~ Donna Ashworth
11/10/25 PM TM
“Everything pleasing in Nature has healing power.
…
Transcendental Meditation has the greatest healing power because it heals the mind, the body, and the soul all at once. All life must be healed, not just a part. All life must be soothed, must be harmonious.”
~ Maharishi
“Everything pleasing in Nature has healing power.
…
Transcendental Meditation has the greatest healing power because it heals the mind, the body, and the soul all at once. All life must be healed, not just a part. All life must be soothed, must be harmonious.”
~ Maharishi
November 10, 2025 at 11:53 PM
11/10/25 PM TM
“Everything pleasing in Nature has healing power.
…
Transcendental Meditation has the greatest healing power because it heals the mind, the body, and the soul all at once. All life must be healed, not just a part. All life must be soothed, must be harmonious.”
~ Maharishi
“Everything pleasing in Nature has healing power.
…
Transcendental Meditation has the greatest healing power because it heals the mind, the body, and the soul all at once. All life must be healed, not just a part. All life must be soothed, must be harmonious.”
~ Maharishi
11/10/25 AM TM
“Meditation is not evasion;
it is a serene encounter with reality.”
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
“Meditation is not evasion;
it is a serene encounter with reality.”
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
November 10, 2025 at 1:16 PM
11/10/25 AM TM
“Meditation is not evasion;
it is a serene encounter with reality.”
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
“Meditation is not evasion;
it is a serene encounter with reality.”
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
11/9/25 PM TM
I can feel everything and survive.
“What I thought would kill me, didn't.
…
I learned that I'd never be free from pain
but I could be free from the fear of pain,
and that was enough.”
~ Glennon Doyle, Untamed
I can feel everything and survive.
“What I thought would kill me, didn't.
…
I learned that I'd never be free from pain
but I could be free from the fear of pain,
and that was enough.”
~ Glennon Doyle, Untamed
November 10, 2025 at 1:35 AM
11/9/25 PM TM
I can feel everything and survive.
“What I thought would kill me, didn't.
…
I learned that I'd never be free from pain
but I could be free from the fear of pain,
and that was enough.”
~ Glennon Doyle, Untamed
I can feel everything and survive.
“What I thought would kill me, didn't.
…
I learned that I'd never be free from pain
but I could be free from the fear of pain,
and that was enough.”
~ Glennon Doyle, Untamed
11/9/25 AM TM
Briefly It Enters, and Briefly Speaks
“I am the blossom pressed in a book,
found again after two hundred years. . . .
I am the maker, the lover, and …
I am the one whose love
overcomes you, already with you when you think to call my name. . . .”
~ Jane Kenyon
Briefly It Enters, and Briefly Speaks
“I am the blossom pressed in a book,
found again after two hundred years. . . .
I am the maker, the lover, and …
I am the one whose love
overcomes you, already with you when you think to call my name. . . .”
~ Jane Kenyon
November 9, 2025 at 4:53 PM
11/9/25 AM TM
Briefly It Enters, and Briefly Speaks
“I am the blossom pressed in a book,
found again after two hundred years. . . .
I am the maker, the lover, and …
I am the one whose love
overcomes you, already with you when you think to call my name. . . .”
~ Jane Kenyon
Briefly It Enters, and Briefly Speaks
“I am the blossom pressed in a book,
found again after two hundred years. . . .
I am the maker, the lover, and …
I am the one whose love
overcomes you, already with you when you think to call my name. . . .”
~ Jane Kenyon
11/8/25 PM TM
The Journey
“One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice -
…
"Mend my life!" each voice cried.
determined to save
the only life you could save.”
~ Mary Oliver
The Journey
“One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice -
…
"Mend my life!" each voice cried.
determined to save
the only life you could save.”
~ Mary Oliver
November 9, 2025 at 1:36 AM
11/8/25 PM TM
The Journey
“One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice -
…
"Mend my life!" each voice cried.
determined to save
the only life you could save.”
~ Mary Oliver
The Journey
“One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice -
…
"Mend my life!" each voice cried.
determined to save
the only life you could save.”
~ Mary Oliver
11/8/25 AM TM
Wild Geese
“You do not have to be good.
…
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting-over and over announcing your place in the family of things.”
~ Mary Oliver
Wild Geese
“You do not have to be good.
…
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting-over and over announcing your place in the family of things.”
~ Mary Oliver
November 8, 2025 at 2:08 PM
11/8/25 AM TM
Wild Geese
“You do not have to be good.
…
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting-over and over announcing your place in the family of things.”
~ Mary Oliver
Wild Geese
“You do not have to be good.
…
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting-over and over announcing your place in the family of things.”
~ Mary Oliver
11/7/25 PM TM
“I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.”
~ Marcus Aurelius
“I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.”
~ Marcus Aurelius
November 8, 2025 at 12:37 AM
11/7/25 PM TM
“I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.”
~ Marcus Aurelius
“I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.”
~ Marcus Aurelius
11/7/25 AM TM
“Hello, sun in my face.
Hello you who made the morning
and spread it over the fields...
Watch, now, how I start the day in happiness,
in kindness.”
~ Mary Oliver
“Hello, sun in my face.
Hello you who made the morning
and spread it over the fields...
Watch, now, how I start the day in happiness,
in kindness.”
~ Mary Oliver
November 7, 2025 at 12:36 PM
11/7/25 AM TM
“Hello, sun in my face.
Hello you who made the morning
and spread it over the fields...
Watch, now, how I start the day in happiness,
in kindness.”
~ Mary Oliver
“Hello, sun in my face.
Hello you who made the morning
and spread it over the fields...
Watch, now, how I start the day in happiness,
in kindness.”
~ Mary Oliver
11/6/25 PM TM
“Nakupenda is one of the most beautiful ways to say "I love you” in Swahili.
You can emphasize the word by adding "sana sana” at the end. “Sana" means "a lot."
So saying "Nakupenda sana sana" means “I love you very, very much."
“Nakupenda is one of the most beautiful ways to say "I love you” in Swahili.
You can emphasize the word by adding "sana sana” at the end. “Sana" means "a lot."
So saying "Nakupenda sana sana" means “I love you very, very much."
November 6, 2025 at 11:36 PM
11/6/25 PM TM
“Nakupenda is one of the most beautiful ways to say "I love you” in Swahili.
You can emphasize the word by adding "sana sana” at the end. “Sana" means "a lot."
So saying "Nakupenda sana sana" means “I love you very, very much."
“Nakupenda is one of the most beautiful ways to say "I love you” in Swahili.
You can emphasize the word by adding "sana sana” at the end. “Sana" means "a lot."
So saying "Nakupenda sana sana" means “I love you very, very much."
11/6/25 AM TM
“Love yourself.
Then forget it.
Then, love the world.”
~ Mary Oliver
“Love yourself.
Then forget it.
Then, love the world.”
~ Mary Oliver
November 6, 2025 at 1:23 PM
11/6/25 AM TM
“Love yourself.
Then forget it.
Then, love the world.”
~ Mary Oliver
“Love yourself.
Then forget it.
Then, love the world.”
~ Mary Oliver