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I'd like to begin with a teaching story.

It's one of my favorite little stories.

And then this one, a mom is preparing pancakes for her two sons, Kevin's five, Ryan's

three, and the boys begin to argue over who gets to have the first pancake.

So the mom feels like this is a great opportunity to teach them a ethical lesson, a moral lesson.

So she says, well, if Jesus was here, he would say, let my brother have the first pancake.

I can wait.

And so Kevin, the oldest, turns to his younger brother and says, Ryan, you can have the first

chance of playing Jesus.

So we are all in our own ways in a developmental process.

And it moves from the habit of operating out of a sense of a self, a real preoccupation

with selfness.

We move through the world kind of self-centered, how's this going to benefit me, how's this

going to hurt me?

And out of that can calm not only selfishness, but aggression as we know.

And then as we emerge, as we develop, there's more and more of a sense of way.

And really the navigation is what will serve the greatest good, our collective well-being.

So what we're going to be doing in this class is continue from last week's class.

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