Song: Sky Inside

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Song: Sky Inside

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Summary A song for engaging with our basic goodness through the image of the open, blue sky inside us all.
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Thoughts and emotions appear and go, just like clouds in the sky. The clouds are not the sky. We are much bigger than our thoughts and emotions—we are like the sky. Our basic nature is goodness, our true nature is like the sky. 

This song is used in the Basic Goodness lesson plan. Click the download button for a PDF including the chords and lyrics.

“Sky Inside”

From You Are Enough (c) by  Lionie Hunt. Released: 2009. Genre: Other.

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