because people will disappoint you. Your church will disappoint you. Your spouse will

disappoint you. Your kids will disappoint you. Everybody will disappoint you. And then you'll find

out that you'll disappoint yourself. So what are you going to do, right? So you could just live

in that despair or you can die. Right? You can choose to die. And if you choose to die, then there's a

surprise. There's actually a surprise, which is, you could call it the resurrection, a little one,

little resurrection, is that all of a sudden some of those things

start to shine and they actually start to be fuller than what you thought when you were trying

to hold on to them.

This is a Pajot. Welcome to the symbolic world. I love not talking first because every time I get all these ideas that are different from what I was going to say in the first place, because the fall was just bringing us at all these powerful images.

So first of all, it's great to be back with some of you and to meet some of you

all these faces. A lot of people that I've been, you know, even met them on YouTube or

met them on Zoom calls and all of that. So it's just wonderful to see people in real life.

And thanks for coming. So I'm going to give the most anti-symbolic talk that I've

ever given, I think is what I'm going to do today. You know, when the title, when the title came

the quest for a spiritual home, the image that right away came up for me was

that that's impossible, right? There's an impossibility in the finding of a spiritual home.

And I don't know why that's the first image that came to me, but I came to formulated this way,

maybe it's going to actually be a bit of a technical question that is that in order for the world

to exist, we cannot own a home. That's maybe one of the best ways to formulate that.

And there seems to be something in the way that we formulate our stories,

the way that the big story is formulated,

the one that Paul brought us on, you know,

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