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"Whether spoken by a voice or a silence, truth is recognized by its light." Nigel Lott teaandzen.org DONATE Meditation Sans Frontieres 501 (C) 3 Non Profit Registered Charity TAX EIN 81-3411835 Tea & Zen exists to offer quiet refuge in a world that rarely pauses. Your donation supports a living sanctuary devoted to presence, healing, and remembranc…
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"Love is on every breath we take, was there before breath we took and will be there when breath we take no more." Nigel Lott................DONATE teaandzen.org In the quiet between heartbeats a whisper calls you home, you are not broken you are becoming. These threads of silence and sound are letters from the threshold, offerings from the edge of …
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This reflection explores love not as something we give or receive, but as something we remember together. It speaks to the way we mirror one another—both in our recognition of truth and in the places within us that believe they have fallen outside of love. In the quiet presence we share, even anger, fear, and grief are invited into the light, not t…
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A quiet exploration of silence as fullness, where nothing needs to be added and love is already complete. In the quiet between heartbeats a whisper calls you home, you are not broken you are becoming. These threads of silence and sound are letters from the threshold, offerings from the edge of stillness. Nigel TEA AND ZEN - MAIN LIBRARY DONATE…
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Dissociation is a natural protective response to overwhelming experience. When something feels too much to bear, awareness may pull back—creating a sense of distance from the body, emotions, or the present moment. This is not a failure, but a survival strategy. Healing involves restoring safety and connection so presence can return gradually and on…
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The eternal truth abides in all things. Even the atom bears witness— to love taking form. Nigel Lott teaandzen.org-library DONATE Meditation Sans Frontieres 501 (C) 3 Non Profit Registered Charity TAX EIN 81-3411835 In the quiet between heartbeats a whisper calls you home, you are not broken you are becoming. These threads of silence and sound are …
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Human life cannot be reduced to psychology, doctrine, practice, or service. It unfolds across silence, love, suffering, creativity, lineage, and care - and none of it is optional. Nigel Lott Meditation Sans Frontieres 501 (C) 3 Non Profit Registered Charity TAX EIN 81-3411835 DONATE In the quiet between heartbeats a whisper calls you home, you are …
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Love as the Organizing Principle of The Universe Over the years, as I moved through and out of the darkness within, I began to reconnect with the light and love that had waited patiently for my return. In those moments of stillness and opening, certain “downloads” would simply appear—dropping gently into my consciousness. My students, clients, pati…
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Be Kind Nigel Lott...teaandzen.org In the quiet between heartbeats a whisper calls you home, you are not broken you are becoming. These threads of silence and sound are letters from the threshold, offerings from the edge of stillness. Nigel TEA AND ZEN - MAIN LIBRARY DONATEBy Nigel Lott
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To be practiced before anything else..........................upon awakening Nigel Lott teaandzen.org In the quiet between heartbeats a whisper calls you home, you are not broken you are becoming. These threads of silence and sound are letters from the threshold, offerings from the edge of stillness. Nigel TEA AND ZEN - MAIN LIBRARY DONATE…
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In the quiet between heartbeats a whisper calls you home, you are not broken you are becoming. These threads of silence and sound are letters from the threshold, offerings from the edge of stillness. Nigel TEA AND ZEN - MAIN LIBRARY DONATEBy Nigel Lott
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Healing is not the removal of wounds, but the remembering of love beneath them. It is a quiet return to what was never truly lost—only forgotten in the necessity of survival. In this remembrance, the places that once ached are met with warmth, and what was held in protection is gently allowed to rest. Nigel Lott teaandzen.org In the quiet between h…
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Change does not arrive through control or argument, but through a gentler alchemy of the heart. This piece points toward the way inner healing becomes a field of peace for the world.In the quiet between heartbeats a whisper calls you home, you are not broken you are becoming. These threads of silence and sound are letters from the threshold, offeri…
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A slow, spacious meditation on inner alchemy—where suffering is held with love, the heart softens, and peace quietly radiates outward into the world, and suffering is met with kindness, and love is allowed to transform from within. Nigel Lott teaandzen.org In the quiet between heartbeats a whisper calls you home, you are not broken you are becoming…
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Before the words,there is a pause.A quiet momentwhere nothing is requiredand warmth is already near.In the quiet between heartbeats a whisper calls you home, you are not broken you are becoming. These threads of silence and sound are letters from the threshold, offerings from the edge of stillness. Nigel TEA AND ZEN - MAIN LIBRARY DONATE…
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HOW? A relection on wisdom born of listening, survival, and presence.
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3:50This was not knowledge gathered, but awareness shaped by survival, tenderness, and time. A way of knowing that arose before words, matured through embodiment, and continues to speak softly from the places where pretense falls away.In the quiet between heartbeats a whisper calls you home, you are not broken you are becoming. These threads of silence…
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Many of us turn to money for safety without realizing what we are truly seeking. This piece listens for the Immortal Presence beneath that longing.In the quiet between heartbeats a whisper calls you home, you are not broken you are becoming. These threads of silence and sound are letters from the threshold, offerings from the edge of stillness. Nig…
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My hope is to walk in the world through a lived covenant— not by rules imposed, but by rhythms chosen in love, and to protect the quiet. My hope is that my presence helps others feel safe enough to soften, to breathe, and to come home to themselves. My hope is to carry a familiarity with the unseen, and to help people trust the movements of the sou…
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If people only knew how precious they are—how close we already are, how much is being entrusted to us in every breath—harm would become inconceivable, not forbidden, but impossible to imagine.In the quiet between heartbeats a whisper calls you home, you are not broken you are becoming. These threads of silence and sound are letters from the thresho…
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Look for love—without it, truth cannot be found. In the quiet between heartbeats a whisper calls you home, you are not broken you are becoming. These threads of silence and sound are letters from the threshold, offerings from the edge of stillness. Nigel TEA AND ZEN - MAIN LIBRARY DONATEBy Nigel Lott
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A gentle blessing for parents—offering compassion for old wounds that surface, permission to be human, and a reminder that presence, repair, and love are enough. A closing prayer for those learning to parent their children while tending the child within. DONATE In the quiet between heartbeats a whisper calls you home, you are not broken you are bec…
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Parenting the Child Who Wakes the One Within Us
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4:38Parenting often reveals more than it instructs. In caring for our children, old memories surface—of what we received, and what we did not. This piece explores how parenting becomes an invitation to re-parent ourselves, freeing both parent and child from carrying unfinished stories, and allowing love to move in a new, gentler direction. In the quiet…
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Love is on every breath you take, was there before breath you took, and will be there when breath you take no more. Nigel Lott teaandzen.org meditationsansfrontieres.com DONATE Meditation Sans Frontieres 501 (C) 3 Non Profit Registered Charity TAX EIN 81-3411835 In the quiet between heartbeats a whisper calls you home, you are not broken you are be…
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Long before theories, techniques, and expert opinions, there was a quieter knowing about what children need. Not perfection. Not control. But safety, presence, and a steady heart. This piece reflects on parenting as a sacred role—one rooted in witnessing, repair, boundaries, and the humility to let a child become who they already are. In the quiet …
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A field of presence offered in silence, breath, and love. teaandzen.org meditationsansfrontieres.com In the quiet between heartbeats a whisper calls you home, you are not broken you are becoming. These threads of silence and sound are letters from the threshold, offerings from the edge of stillness. Nigel TEA AND ZEN - MAIN LIBRARY DONATE…
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Everyone has a story and anyone can lose their way, in Love we remember our way back home. Nigel Lott teaandzen.org - library meditationsansfrontieres.com In the quiet between heartbeats a whisper calls you home, you are not broken you are becoming. These threads of silence and sound are letters from the threshold, offerings from the edge of stilln…
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May All Love Become You Nigel Lott - teaandzen.org meditationsansfrontieres.com - sanctuary teaandzen-threads.podbean.com DONATE Meditation Sans Frontieres 501 (C) 3 Non Profit Registered Charity TAX EIN 81-3411835 In the quiet between heartbeats a whisper calls you home, you are not broken you are becoming. These threads of silence and sound are l…
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Presence meeting Presence - The Eternal Flame
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6:13In this reflection, Nigel Lott speaks from the intimate terrain of presence — the wordless field where we meet one another beneath thought, story, and role. Drawing from years of sitting with the dying, he explores how grief, when held in silence, reveals itself as love, and how this same meeting is quietly occurring in every moment of our lives, t…
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Even when life leans into shadow or uncertainty, even when appearances say otherwise, Love quietly leads the way, forever and always. Nigel Lott - teaandzen.org meditationsansfrontieres.com - sanctuary teaandzen-threads.podbean.com DONATE Meditation Sans Frontieres 501 (C) 3 Non Profit Registered Charity TAX EIN 81-3411835 In the quiet between hear…
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Choose Love. Again and again. Until there is nothing left but Love choosing itself through you. In the quiet between heartbeats a whisper calls you home, you are not broken you are becoming. These threads of silence and sound are letters from the threshold, offerings from the edge of stillness. Nigel TEA AND ZEN - MAIN LIBRARY DONATE…
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Choosing Love - The Original Wound and the Long Journey Home
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5:55This episode explores the universal wound of separation we carry from birth—the sense that love is lost outside ourselves—and how it shapes our suffering and search for belonging. Through reflection and insight, it points to a simple but profound shift: recognizing that love has always been within, and choosing to live from that remembering until l…
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Out Beyond Right and Wrong: A Field of Meeting
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1:04This episode reflects on Rumi's poem and imagines a place beyond right and wrong where souls meet. Through gentle, poetic conversation, listeners are invited to leave behind judgment and connect in silence beyond words. In the quiet between heartbeats a whisper calls you home, you are not broken you are becoming. These threads of silence and sound …
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Meditation on the ONE who Beats the Heart
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11:22The One Who Beats the Heart A guided meditation for those listening beyond the breath. Let the body be still. Let the breath soften. And for a moment… do nothing at all. Let the silence rise up from beneath you. Let it settle around your shoulders, like a robe made of dusk. Feel your heart. Not with your hand — but with your awareness. With your pr…
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A short guided meditation inviting you to come home to yourself through gentle breath and inward attention. Settle the breath, soften the body, and bring awareness to the spiritual heart beneath the sternum. Imagine a warm, steady light growing with each inhale and filling the body with ease. Rest in the sense of arrival, and when ready, close with…
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Awake awhile. It does not have to be Forever, Right now. One step upon the Sky’s soft skirt Would be enough. Hafiz, Awake awhile. Just one True moment of Love Will last for days. Rest all your elaborate plans and tactics For Knowing Him, For they are all just frozen spring buds Far, So far from Summer’s Divine Gold. Awake, my dear. Be kind to your …
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My work with those who are dying is simple, quiet, and deeply human. I sit beside people in their final days not to guide them anywhere, but to accompany them as they remember what has always been true: that they are loved, that they are not alone, and that the passage ahead is nothing to fear. I offer presence more than words, listening more than …
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Beloved, I Am Here — A Meditation for When Love Feels Lost
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3:28This short guided meditation invites you to sit as you are and gently reconnect with the presence of love within. No preparation or posture correction is needed — just soft breathing and a quiet inward whisper: "Beloved, I am here." Through simple awareness and imagining a warm, golden breath pooling in the heart, you remember that love is not an o…
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“When surrendered to, Love heals all pain — not through effort, but by revealing what was whole all along.” “Love does not arrive; it remembers itself through us.” “Long may your awareness of Love and its power abide within you — its undying beauty always to remain.” Nigel Lott meditationsansfrontieres.com - sanctuary teaandzen.org - library In the…
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This guided meditation invites you to settle into the simple awareness that underlies every face and story. Using gentle breath and visualization—bringing to mind a loved one, a stranger, and someone difficult—you sense the same presence animating all beings and let the borders between stories soften. Rest in that unity for a few breaths and carry …
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This episode explores how we hide behind identities — race, nation, religion, gender, and history — and act as if those costumes define us. Through poetic reflection, it shows that beneath every mask there is the same breath, the same longing to belong, and a shared consciousness. Fear and division are revealed as defenses of a fragile self, while …
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There are moments when language is not born of thought, but of presence —and love. When silence itself begins to speak, and the heart, in stillness, remembers how to listen, the heart finds it’s true language. Nigel Lott meditationsansfrontieres.com teaandzen.org-library In the quiet between heartbeats a whisper calls you home, you are not broken y…
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May a small circle of safety find you, even if it is only the space of one breath. May the night be gentle around you, and may something quiet inside remind you that you are still here, still held by the same life that beats in every heart. May you feel, even for a moment, the soft presence that has never abandoned you— the one that lives beneath f…
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When the Heart Changes: The Hidden Alchemy of Transformation
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1:54True transformation begins with a change of heart — a quiet surrender that lets go of long-held pain, fear, and protection. As the nervous system softens and old energies fall away, understanding becomes embodied and the brain begins to rewire. Healing unfolds from within, shifting behavior from survival to love and presence. In the quiet between h…
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In the quiet between heartbeats a whisper calls you home, you are not broken you are becoming. These threads of silence and sound are letters from the threshold, offerings from the edge of stillness. Nigel TEA AND ZEN - MAIN LIBRARY DONATEBy Nigel Lott
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Radiant Heart: A Guided Meditation to Send Light
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4:26Settle into the quiet beneath the sternum, lengthen the breath, and rest in the spiritual heart as a gentle, timeless light arises. Allow this soft luminosity to expand through your body, making you a calm vessel of presence. Gently extend that light to one who suffers, then widen your awareness to include all beings, the earth, and every hidden pl…
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I....Love makes no judgements its has no preferences II...Love does not wound us—only the belief that we stand apart from it does. Love itself never harms; it is our forgetting of love that aches. When I speak of Love, I don’t mean sentiment or preference. I’m pointing to the quiet, radiant presence at the heart of all things — the living intellige…
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I volunteer to sit with those who are dying—individuals without family or friends—at a few hospitals in Seattle. I offer a quiet, steady presence for those who might otherwise take their final steps alone. By the time I am asked to attend, they are usually in comfort care and appear unconscious, yet over time I have become acutely aware that someth…
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The Healing of One Heart: From Wounds to Light
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1:07In this episode we explore how healing begins when we recognize our shared responsibility to one another and move beyond the wounds and the illusion of separateness that keep us in darkness. Through simple, daily acts of kindness and growing compassion, we are invited to uncover the love that lives in every heart and to make each moment an opportun…
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Surrendering the River: When Life Unfolds on Its Own
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1:05No control. We have no control over outcomes of anything. No matter how hard we try, life unfolds according to its own mysterious intelligence. We may hold an intention, a vision, or a heartfelt desire for how something might turn out, but the actual unfolding is never in our hands. The river of life moves as it will. Our task is not to control its…
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"Grief is not a mistake; it is the echo of Love’s presence where form has changed" Nigel Lott teaandzen.org Music - Murmurations by Hannah Lindgren In the quiet between heartbeats a whisper calls you home, you are not broken you are becoming. These threads of silence and sound are letters from the threshold, offerings from the edge of stillness. Ni…
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