Greetings. We offer these podcasts freely and your support really makes a difference.

To make a donation, please visit tarabrock.com. So many of you have heard of Andres Gregory, my dinner with Andre

and a man asked him about his writing.

And he responded with a story about his wife, she was going into surgery,

and he realized belatedly, and this was after she was put under anesthesia,

that he hadn't really said what he had wanted to, what he needed to say to her.

So he made this commitment than when she woke up that he would speak

his heart. This would be his way of communicating as if for the last time. And then his

message to the person asking the question was, write like that. Right as if you are expressing your heart as if for the last time.

Live like that. Live your moments as if this is it. Let it matter. Let it come from a

remembrance of what you most care about.

So it's a beautiful message.

It's one that many of us resonate with because we have a sense of how most days or many days we move through kind of in this trance-like way that we're either trying to get

through the day in some way or there's a sense that this life

is going to go on forever and it just were on kind of an automatic and it's a bit of a sleepwalking

or else we're feeling just driven through the day by wants and fears but there's certainly

not that sense of the moments live this one as if it's the

last. Speak your heart as if this is it. So one of the questions that is often brought up,

especially after a retreat where we've spent a lot of moments coming into presences, how does this presence

help me in making the big decisions in my life?

How does it help me in really remembering what matters and remembering my inner wisdom?

How do I access that in the midst of the frenzy? You know how William James

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