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Most of the time before I actually begin speaking, I have an inner reflection that I'll share with you.

And it goes something like just sensing us all here together and I often will say, we are friends.

I'm just kind of reflect on here we are and we're friends.

And I notice that when I intentionally move to that, just feeling our connection,

some of the selfing that can habitually arise around being in the role and being the teacher

and about to convey something of importance that I want everybody to get and I want to do a good job

doing it. Some of that selfing stuff, it just softens and it makes a lot more room for

a kind of awakening together for a flow of truth and caring that it's much more vibrant and alive.

We are friends and so we are feeling it for a moment publicly.

One of my favorite messages from Mother Teresa goes like this. She says,

if we have no peace, it's because we've forgotten that we belong to each other.

If we have no peace, it's because we've forgotten we belong to each other.

And it feels so simple and so true and it's really perhaps the center piece of awakening our heart

is rediscovering belonging. So I'd like to have this be a center piece really of the talk tonight

and the talk, the next class that we have. Really, how do we deepen our felt experience of belonging?

Not some abstract idea of it, but our felt experience. And I'm aware tonight is Yom Kippur,

so a deep bout all those who celebrate the high holidays and the essence of Yom Kippur has to do

with at one minute, right? That coming into harmony into belonging. So it's fitting in that way too.

Okay, so a little bit of a map of the talk, what we'll be doing is first looking as I often do,

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