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	<title>Comments on: Geography of friendship</title>
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		<title>By: Schwartz</title>
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		<dc:creator>Schwartz</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:44:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thank you!  :D</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thank you!  <img src='http://www.befriendedstranger.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif' alt=':D' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: Mitko</title>
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		<dc:creator>Mitko</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 12:07:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well said, my Belgian friend. We did pray for all 4000 of you last night.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well said, my Belgian friend. We did pray for all 4000 of you last night.</p>
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		<title>By: Schwartz</title>
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		<dc:creator>Schwartz</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 10:04:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It&#039;s of course an interesting question you raise about why some people stay in our lives and others leave or are left behind.  I wholly subscribe to the maxim that people enter our lives &quot;for a reason, a season or a lifetime&quot;.  

Moreover, I recall somewhere in Gleanings Baha&#039;u&#039;llah explaining that relationships with individuals who were particularly helpful in our spiritual growth will persist beyond death.  I interpret this to include even those for whom the encounter was momentary or even negative.  For example, one of my most spiritually beneficial relationships was one which ended quite dramatically in fire and brimstone, but it was that process of pain that helped me to evolve.  Thus, I would not be surprised if she and I encounter each other again in whatever lies beyond the grave.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s of course an interesting question you raise about why some people stay in our lives and others leave or are left behind.  I wholly subscribe to the maxim that people enter our lives &#8220;for a reason, a season or a lifetime&#8221;.  </p>
<p>Moreover, I recall somewhere in Gleanings Baha&#8217;u'llah explaining that relationships with individuals who were particularly helpful in our spiritual growth will persist beyond death.  I interpret this to include even those for whom the encounter was momentary or even negative.  For example, one of my most spiritually beneficial relationships was one which ended quite dramatically in fire and brimstone, but it was that process of pain that helped me to evolve.  Thus, I would not be surprised if she and I encounter each other again in whatever lies beyond the grave.</p>
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