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As most of us are registering,

the pace of change continues to speed up

and much of the news we receive is alarming. So it feels like more than ever we need inner

reflections and meditations that can help us connect with our capacity for clarity, for bravery, for

open-heartedness in responding to our world. And so this is what I'm exploring today with Orange-J Sofer,

who has a new book, and the title of the new book

is Your Heart was made for this.

The contemplative practices to meet a world in crisis with

courage, integrity, and love. Arne and I talk about engaged Buddhism which is

spiritually rooted activism. We talk about the very

roots of a compassionate response. We talk about how trauma impacts our responsiveness to the world, ways to gladden the heart and resource

ourselves, how we might respond to the great polarized divides around violence in the Middle East,

divides around the elections in the United States, and how our inner resourcing can guide us in bridging device with each other.

So I found so much of value in this conversation and I trust you well to enjoy.

So welcome my friend, thank you so much

for being with me and part of this.

Thank you for having me.

Yeah, I'm going to want to talk a lot about your new book because I love it, but I want to

start with something even broader where

maybe if you could I mean you've spoken about how you're writing and your teaching is

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