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I was recently perusing two different articles. The first title was, is aging the secret

to happiness. The second was, want to be happier. All you have to do is get older.

So same theme, and they both draw on research that seems to confirm this correlation that

the older we get, the happier we are. Now, I know that seems counterintuitive given the

challenge as we face, that we lose people we love and we lose our youth and our health

and our memory. I saw a cartoon with this very old couple and they were both on rockers

on the porch and he's responding to her. He says, now you want an open relationship.

I'm Billy Gristle, but at this way, he said, by the time a man is wide enough to watch

his step, he's too old to go anywhere. Okay, so there's this evidence that correlates

aging with happiness and the understanding that resonates for me is that through our lifetime,

we have the capacity to learn and adapt and spiritually evolve. And with the passing of

time, there can be a growing acceptance of the inevitability of change and loss, a growing

acceptance of change and loss. And, well, clearly, this doesn't happen to everyone for those

that do deepen in that acceptance. It enables living and appreciating the moments and

loving more fully. So, the title of this talk and the one that follows is change, loss,

and timeless love. And the theme arises from a central teaching on the spiritual path

that is that our capacity to live and love fully is totally intertwined with how we relate to change

and loss. So, this will be an invitation for you to look in your own life at how you're relating

to change and to loss. It feels really relevant right now to explore this given how many people

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