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I was reminded recently of this quote, the gross national

product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education,

are the joy of their play.

It does not include the beauty of our poetry

or the strength of our marriages. The intelligence of our public debate or

the integrity of our public officials. It measures neither the wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom, nor our learning, neither our

compassion, nor our devotion to our country. It measures everything in short except that which makes life worthwhile.

So as many of you are probably familiar, this is Robert Kennedy.

It was done when I was 15 years old and here we are today with so much resonance with what we know is true and he

was assassinated three months after giving this speech.

You know, for much of my life, and I suspect the same for many of you,

there's been this sense of our world on an edge and times are really intense and

there's a lot of fears and a lot of violence and then with that this yearning for a more

loving more peaceful world and that only seems to increase as time keeps

going and what I think of really what we need in navigating.

This key element is a quality of courage.

Courage, this greatness of heart to meet what we fear and to stand in the fire of our vulnerability.

And speaking personally, I can feel that vulnerability, the fears for our world, day by day.

And it's a calling for attention.

And it seems paradoxical, but only when I open to the vulnerability to those fears to the

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