Madisyn Taylor - DailyOM: Learning to Live

Copyright 2008 by DailyMedia, Inc.

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Editorial supervision: Jill Kramer

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Taylor, Madisyn.

DailyOM : inspirational thoughts for a happy, healthy, and fulfilling day /

Madisyn Taylor. -- 1st ed.

p. cm.

ISBN 978-1-4019-2050-0 (tradepaper)

1. Meditations. I. Title.

BL624.2.T39 2008

158.128--dc22

2007037772

ISBN: 978-1-4019-2050-0

11 10 09 08 4 3 2 1

1st edition, April 2008

Printed in the United States of America

In 2004 I co-founded DailyOM with my husband with the vision of sending messages of hope, awareness, and love through e-mail. Every day we send stories on topics such as meditation, relationships, nature, as well as words that simply touch your heart. They are events and circumstances in life that we all go through as human beings on our path to growth.

Since the beginning of our journey, we have always wanted to put the wisdom of DailyOM in a book, and you are now holding the first volume in your hands. Allow the energy of the words within these pages to gently guide you on your path to awareness and self-fulfillment.

As editor-in-chief of DailyOM, I am often asked how I come up with story ideas every day. Indeed, this is one of the most difficult parts of my jobbut then again, it can be the easiest as well. Most often the ideas are given to me in meditation, and sometimes the universe will have me look at my own life and write about my personal experiences. After all, we are all on the same earth together having very similar experiences. Nature is always a large part of my inspiration... and every day I am in awe of her beauty, wisdom, and willingness to help heal humanity.

We all experience joy, pain, love, and griefnone of us are immune, including me. I have walked the path just as all of you have, and I have examined my life in depth and made changes where I felt they were needed. I could not make these offerings to you without doing the work myself. It is my sincere hope that you can find comfort in these messages; that they perhaps spark a fire in you, create conversation, or bring about change; and even that you learn something new if you choose. Im so happy to have you along on our journey.

Many blessings,

Madisyn