Hello and welcome to another episode of Mindfulness Plus.

I'm your host Thomas McConkey.

Thanks so much for listening today.

I mentioned last episode that I am back in the saddle, season five, really happy to be here.

I neglected to mention that we have a new generous sponsor and collaborators, Skylight,

and without their help and their inspiration and even their guidance and insight into how a season

five could look, I would still be drowning and diaper changing and looking for a nanny and

figuring out how to run my life as a new dad. So shout out to Skylight for really bringing

mindfulness plus back into circulation.

So if you're joining from Skylight or if you're a previous mindfulness pluser,

thanks for coming.

We got another good episode for you today.

I am going to dive right in.

One of my spiritual heroes is Father Thomas Keating. Father Thomas Keating, I won't say too much about,

maybe we'll put him in some show notes or refer back to him. And there's actually, actually,

I'm remembering, there's a previous episode dedicated specifically to Father Thomas Keating

at the time of his death, which was a couple years ago now.

At any rate, I want to kind of draw from his classic.

Father Thomas Keating wrote a book called Open Mind, Open Heart.

I don't know how many people on the planet have read this book. Many have, and not enough, though.

This is one of my favorite resources for a mindfulness practice, for an awareness practice,

for really learning how to pay attention to life, pay attention to ourselves in a way that

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