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I want to stay a bit this evening with a theme that we spoke about touched on last week which has to do with the sense of mystery and the mystery of being born in a human body and being incarnated and being here.

It's pretty mysterious and strange.

And nobody, no scientist, nobody can explain how an acorn remembers for 20 million years the history of oak trees but it does and nobody can really understand how

consciousness can perceive a rainbow and which is more ephemeral and which is real, exactly what real is.

Not to speak of the fact that there are 50 billion trillion stars out there in all the far distant

galaxies that the Hubble's been able to

to take pictures of, which means that there's 1.5 trillion stars for every man, woman,

and child on the earth if you want to start naming yours. And And as one poet said, there are sacred places everywhere where the world is still our holy grove where we wander, hunting for the tree of life

under which we already live. Now one of the important qualities of a meditative life or opening oneself to a spiritual dimension,

is that it's an opening to beauty,

an opening to harmony, and opening

to some sense of rhythm and happiness, justice in the world. Sometimes people get the sense of spirituality as being a grim duty, you know, like, you know, taking your vitamins and working out at the gym and doing your meditation, you know,

it's kind of keep you in shape somehow or other.

There was a study that was done, of course one might say something

about many studies, but nevertheless in London some years ago they took two streets in an area of London that was

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