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I'll begin with an email that I received just a few days ago.

Mom was describing the busyness of getting her four-year-old daughter into a car and about

she's buckling her in her car seat.

Notice that her nails are a bit long so she starts explaining to her daughter how when

they get home at nighttime they're going to have to clip her nails and also going to

have to do some other things, take a bath and detangle her curls and this and that.

Her daughter says, okay mom, but let's care about now.

So bless our next generation, they know.

And it's interesting of course for all of us if we investigate our moments and just notice

how often are we on our way to something else wanting things to be different, wanting

something more, having that sense that this moment, we want the next moment to contain

what this moment does not.

We're leaning forward.

And when this wanting is strong, which it sometimes is, it keeps us from presence and

from freedom and when it's really strong, that's addiction.

That's the addiction that really takes over a whole identity.

We become the addicted person and destroys our health, relationships, our life.

We can see this on a societal level sometimes even more clearly that the sense of the power

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