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I'm good evening. I'd like to begin tonight with a poem, this is a new favorite of mine.

I was meditating with my cat the other day and all of a sudden she shouted, what happened?

I knew exactly what she meant but encouraged her to say more, feeling that if she got it

all out on the table she'd sleep better that night.

So I responded, tell me more dear and she soulfully meowed.

Well, I was mingled with the sky, I was calm, it's whizzing here and there, I was suns

and he'd hell, I was galaxies but now look, I'm landlocked in fur.

To this I said, I know exactly what you mean.

What to say about conversation between mystics?

So the title of tonight's talk may have something to do with landlocked in fur.

We'll go from there.

So you might not have found over these days that you've been dissolved into galaxies of light

but many I know from our groups have sensed an openness and times of really feeling at

home or with experience in a fluid way and then contracted and the next season has been

one of in some way anxiety or tension or tightness that's something's wrong feeling.

So one way of understanding this whole awakening process or even the word enlightenment is

freedom from that identification with the landlocked self.

When we're not stuck inside a limiting story and felt sense of selfness and you'll notice

as you're moving through the day here that the moments that you feel most free, there's

not a preoccupation with your story, with comparing yourself to others or how you should

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