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Greetings and Namaste friends. I'm really glad you could be with us. We're exploring

the theme of loving ourselves into healing. And this is the third part. Part one, we explored

embracing our own lives, so really befriending and bringing compassion and care to all the

parts of our own being. And then in part two, we extended that to those that we're regularly

around. How do we really open our hearts and see who's here and be with them in an authentic

way? And so this is part three. And this is really widening the circles out in a full

and inclusive way so that we're including all beings, human beings, non-human beings,

including all beings in our hearts and transcending that sense of us and them. And I really think

of this as the evolutionary shift and consciousness in our species. It's our hope for survival,

really, for peace, for the healing of our world. And in the Buddhist tradition, this is

described as the Bodhisattva path, the path of awakening beings where we realize the

truth of our connectedness of our belonging. And we live from that. We live with love and

compassion for each other. So many of you are aware that the beloved Desmond Tutu

died a few days ago. He was a great Bodhisattva, really, human rights activist, spiritual

teacher. And he wrote this. He said, God's dream is that you and I and all of us will realize

that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion. And I

really love that, that sense that this is what we're, we have the potential to realize and

live from. That sounds a family. And Martin Luther King Jr talked about this in terms of

beloved community, saying that beloved community is our only salvation. So the path to beloved

community to realizing our belonging, it's not an abstract one. It actually involves in a

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