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	<title>7 Green Stairs &#187; beauty in strength</title>
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		<title>True beauty has strength</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 10:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juliet Chase</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is something compelling in this flower, although I doubt you&#8217;d call it pretty.  Feel the thick texture and the symmetry of each petal yielding the next.  It is beautiful because of the very things that keep it from being pretty.  Are you trimming down the very things that make you beautiful in an attempt [...]]]></description>
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<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1347" title="Meditation_beauty_1650" src="http://www.7greenstairs.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Meditation_beauty_1650.jpg" alt="Meditation_beauty_1650" width="251" height="376" />There is something compelling in this flower, although I doubt you&#8217;d call it pretty.  Feel the thick texture and the symmetry of each petal yielding the next.  It is beautiful because of the very things that keep it from being pretty.  Are you trimming down the very things that make you beautiful in an attempt to be conventional and &#8220;pretty&#8221;?</p>
<p><em>Tropical Maui, Juliet Chase, all rights reserved</em></p>

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