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Tonight we're going to be listening to part two on the series of navigating conflict.

And I thought I'd start with a quote Alexander Sosunitson who writes this.

He says, if only it were all so simple.

If only there were evil people somewhere and seriously committing evil deeds and it

were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them.

But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being and who

is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart.

So these two talks that we selected from the archives feel very meaningful for our times.

We so easily get lured into thinking there are evil people out there that we have to

beat or vanquish.

And in our species the real sign of evolutions is capacity to collaborate to fuel our empathy

and compassion.

And as we know when fear takes over we get cut off.

Our primitive emotions take over to hate the anger, violence.

We can get hooked on this and find ourselves always reacting.

And you can see this in our personal lives always kind of reacting with mistrust or hostility

being a naysay or assuming somebody's out to get you.

I remember seeing a cartoon of a dog and a psychiatrist couch and the dog saying, I bark

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