Hello and welcome to another episode of Mindfulness Plus.

I'm your host, Thomas Mconki.

Thanks so much for listening. Okay, this is a good one today, people. I'm happy

you're here. So I want to talk about the feeling of being incomplete, like something's missing.

This is a really easy experience to have in that, you know, objectively,

relatively speaking, it's true. We're all human beings in a process becoming something.

We have different beliefs about what that something is, let's say, for the sake of argument, becoming some better versions

of ourselves. So by definition, when we experience ourselves through time, who I am right now

is an incomplete version of who I am tomorrow. So that's okay, like Suzuki-Roshi says,

you're all perfect just as you are,

and you could use a little improvement.

It's important that we capture the paradox.

If we only hear, I could use a little improvement.

I could use a little improvement.

It's crazy making.

And before long, we're in the therapist chair

saying we can't get a grip on our life.

I want to read a quote from Teilhard today. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin.

Teilhard was a Jesuit priest, a scientist, a paleontologist, a theologian, a mystic, quite a beautiful thinker and visionary who died in the 20th century.

1995, he died.

And I'll just, I'll get right to the chase and give you the words, and then I'll expand a little bit

on what I want to explore in today's episode.

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