Welcome back to Practicing Human, the podcast where every day we are getting a little better at life.

I am your host, Corey Muscarra, and in today's episode we are going to be talking about how to find peace without all the pieces.

More to come on that in a moment.

First, it is Two Bell Tuesday, which means instead of our normal single bell, I will be ringing the bell

twice, giving us a little extra time to focus into the present moment, drop in together, and settle our attention.

Without further ado, here are our two bells. D. You're going to be here. So I think we can think of our life as a puzzle. Having all of these different pieces. There's the piece with the job,

there's a piece with the kids, there's a piece with the

a piece with the relationship, the aspirations, the

childhood, the physical body, the house, the car, where you live, what you eat, all of these different pieces

that come together to create your experience of life, your experience of life,

of you.

And when it comes right down to it,

much of our moment-to-moment work in life

seems to be about arranging the puzzle pieces in such a way that makes the picture look good, that

brings it all together in the way that we imagine in our mind it should be. This is the perfect relationship, the

perfect job, the amount of money, the house, the retiring when you want to retire, the living where you want to live,

the being surrounded by the people you want to be surrounded by,

family life unfolding as you expected to.

Much of our pursuit of happiness, of peace

is about trying to make all of these pieces come together

in the way that we think will give us what we want.

And it's true we can experience a great deal of happiness with all of those pieces coming together.

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