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There's a Sufi wise man who also plays the fool, his name is Mullenazardine.

In one of the stories about him, he had lost his wife's bracelet and his frantic and panicking.

He says, God, help me find this.

I'll do anything.

I'll give half of my week's earnings to the poor.

I'll do anything.

Just help me.

And then he sees it behind a cushion and he says, never mind, God, I've already found

it.

That's the beginning of my Thanksgiving talk.

Yeah, so each year, the night before Thanksgiving, I put together a talk that in some way looks

at these qualities of the heart as we awaken of a natural generosity and a sense of gratitude.

And so when I was approaching this class, I'd actually forgotten that this was Thanksgiving

week.

And I had a whole different talk I was cooking up on self honesty.

Then I somehow looked at the calendar and figured it out.

And my first reaction was real resistance, like, oh no, I got to do a talk on gratitude.

I processed it.

Because I was in, you know, my whole mode was on honesty, I thought I'd share with you

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