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Now this day, welcome, good afternoon.

It's a different feeling, giving a talk when it's all light outside, so it's kind of bright

and nice.

And what we'll be doing for this period, which is our heart practice, the title I'm using

is loving without holding back.

And if we ask ourselves at any moment, like what right now is between me and loving, we'll

run into all the ways that perhaps we've been distracted and not here.

But deep down, what we'll find is that there's vulnerability.

We're not wanting to feel.

And that it's not until we open to the vulnerability that we get to open to the whole vastness of love

and really occupy it.

Because before then, we were kind of pulling back from the vulnerability, so we were pulling

back from really inhabiting our being.

There's a bunch of responses that children gave to the question, what does love mean?

I'll just read you one.

When you tell someone something bad about yourself and you're scared they won't love you anymore,

but then you get surprised because not only do they still love you, they love you even

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