So tonight this is a two week series we're doing last week I spoke on self-forgiveness

and so tonight's a cultivating forgiveness for others and it's really how to stop the war

that creates so much separation and pain and loss in our lives.

And as we often do I'll be inviting you to choose somewhere where you have some sense

of separation closing your heart somewhere to somebody and we'll be doing a practice

towards the end that will address that.

But just to say that the roots of war and the possibility of peace are really in these

very hearts right here.

So whether you're here tonight listening are there are people around the globe now

that listen to the podcast, this very growing community that's part of an even larger

community of people that are really intentionally waking up their hearts and minds and this practice

of forgiving, of seeing where we've pushed others out of our heart and intending to soften

and open is really about the most profound thing we can do to plant the seeds of peace

and it includes action, activity but it has to be within our own hearts too.

So there's an anonymous saying who is it that's unhappy, the one who finds fault.

And we kind of know it that when we're in fault finding mode we're just not in that good

of mood right isn't it true?

And what happens is that either we're in the mode of this self is a victim or this self

is in some way superior and putting out our judgments but it's not one of those states

of heart and mind that we're really savoring our lives.

And if we're at the end of our life looking back we know that we'd say what mattered

was loving will and really being here for our life.

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