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Welcome to the Jack Cornfield Heart Wisdom Hour. We are delighted to share with you Jack's

innate common sense wisdom and his clear open heart. If you are interested in supporting Jack's

podcast, go to beherenownetwork.com slash Jack. In Sanskrit, which are speaking about love and

compassion, and so forth, and will tonight a little bit of a sampler since I didn't do this whole

series of talks. It seems particularly fitting in this season of Christmas and Kwanza and

Hanukkah. I think Ramadan was earlier this year, but in the winter solstice coming up in the

turning of the light. This last week, I've been quite busy, including involved in some

activist things working to help organize some of the demonstrations for the monks and nuns

and people of Burma, trying to organize a trip to the Middle East going in January to Israel

and to West Bank and Palestine. Some political things I've been doing, and kind of thinking about

the inner and the outer of spiritual life because we as human beings are incarnated, we're born here

with a fundamentally good heart. You know this when you see little children. There's this beauty

and innocence and generosity that's there. Then when we look more collectively at the difficulties

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