My loves, in our new tradition of Sundays being for prayerful, meditative, contemplative,

content, today I'm going to give you super simple practice.

It's called, I've done that before.

Okay, so you know, I'm not into life hacks, but this is a fantastic

shortcut to instant compassion. It's really easy. It's just one sentence. It's this. Oh,

I've done that before. It works for approximately 92% of all misunderstandings and conflicts.

And the other 8% of conflicts will require some radical forgiving.

We'll get to that later.

Step one.

Someone's behavior causes you pain or upset.

At least, that's how you perceive it.

Step two, you say to yourself,

oh, I've done that before.

I've done that before.

You've probably caused someone else pain and upset.

Maybe you told a lie, let someone down, cheated a little bit, rounded up the

truth, spoke out of turn, flew off the handle like, I've done all that before. And maybe it was years

ago, before you were as enlightened as you are now. Maybe it was just last week.

But when have you been that kind of person to someone else? And if not outwardly to someone else,

when have you done this same behavior inwardly to yourself?

If you can see when and or where else you've reflected the same kind of behavior

that's got you all ruffled now,

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