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Your Daily Reprieve 11.02.25

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            Your Daily Reprieve for Sunday November   2, 2025   From Waynesville, NC     Human beings are parts of the whole called by us a universe—parts limited in time and space.   They experience themselves, their thoughts and feelings, as something separate from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of their consciousnesses.   This delusion is a kind of prison for us; it restricts us to our personal decisions and our affections to a few persons nearest to us.   Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.     -Albert Einstein   To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.     ~Max Beerbohm   Cheerful givers do not count t...