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To make a donation, please visit Tarabrock.com. Namaste, welcome friends. There's a cartoon I like where you have a patient on the couch and the dog is of course a psychologist and the dog saying my therapy is quite simple.

I wag my tail and look your face until you feel good about yourself again.

And I share many of you know I have a new puppy and I'm amazed at how much the affection from

this furry little creature can lift my spirits.

She really likes me.

So the cartoon also shines a light really that all of us we have a lifelong need to feel loved to have the world mirror back to us that were valuable that were lovable and we also have a deep conditioning and this is what's important not to let in love and

perhaps you've noticed that that you might not always feel you might sense well they're

acting this way but they don't really mean it.

Something in our bodies kind of defends against receiving love.

And for me, it's much easier with my puppy than with humans.

So I'm imagining others feel the same.

Letting in love's not so easy.

I think it's interesting and really important to examine how often we're living in a sense of self that doesn't feel worthy, valued, or lovable.

If we don't examine it, we can't wake up from that trance. I started

investigating and teaching and writing about this 50 years ago and still in mentoring supporting people it's the root suffering not feeling

lovable feeling separate and my senses that as our world spirals more into the shadows, much of suffering is in humans not feeling valued,

not feeling belonging, and then in reaction dehumanizing others.

So both personally and collectively we need a pathway that's all-time favorite themes and it's based on the story of the prodigal son. It

examines the pathway that we're talking about of letting in love, trusting the loving that really is in this world and that loving is intrinsic to what we are.

So my friends, my prayers are that this will serve your heart and spirit and ripple out to touch many others.

So I'd like to begin this talk with one of my favorite personals that I've run across over the last decade.

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