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Stay in good evening.

It's very sweet to be with you.

I've been reflecting on how, on every continent and through history, people are doing what we're doing.

And it's actually more and more, gathering and listening to our hearts and our lives in our world.

It's just happening everywhere.

Still a very small percentage.

For many people this should be utter insanity.

The night of the living dead, when you see people walking slowly, that kind of thing.

But it's interesting to sense into what is it that really motivates us.

There are other ways to spend a week.

I sometimes think of Munindraji, who was a Bengali teacher, and he was asked that question.

You know, what motivates you to this practice?

And his response was so that when I walk into the village every day, I won't miss seeing those tiny purple flowers by the side of the road.

He basically, his teaching was to live the life fully.

Which in a sense just means to really be present for this life, not miss out on it.

Sensing this reality that everything we really cherish, feeling loving, creative, feeling a sense of full aliveness,

connecting us everything is sourced in presence.

We have to be here for it.

So that's the motivation.

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