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So William James, over 150 years ago, described the suffering of contemporary society as this

going around in a ceaseless frenzy, always feeling like we should be doing something else.

What's changed? How many of you can relate to that?

Always thinking, yeah, there is something in us, this kind of chronic doing, where we're anticipating

around the corner that there's yet something else that's going to need our attention, that's

going to go wrong. And so, even when we're doing one thing, there's a sense of we've got to get to the next.

Of course, sometimes what we're doing is what we call the needful. We really, really need to be doing

what we're doing. And one of my favorite illustrations is of a man who went on a safari with his

poodle. And as it turns out, the poodle sort of chasing around some butterflies and found that he

was totally lost at one point. So he's trying to find his way back and then he sees a leopard

stalking him. And so the poodle goes, oh, and luckily the poodle noticed some bones on the ground

close by. And Ealy turned his back to the approaching cat and started to chew on them. And just as the

leopard was about to pounce, the poodle called out, boy, that was one delicious leopard, but I'm

still hungry. I wonder if there's another around. By hearing this leopard halted as attack

mid-stried a look of abject terror on his face, he crawled off to some trees nearby thinking, boy,

that was a close call. That creature nearly got me. Meanwhile, a monkey had been watching the whole

scene from a tree. And he called out to the leopard promising some valuable information or a turn

for the leopard's protection. The leopard agreed to the deal. And of course, his furious

to learn he had just been made a fool of. So the leopard now with the monkey on his back took off

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