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I've been away for a few weeks traveling so it's really nice to be back home and with

you live streaming.

Maybe I'll begin with this is a story about the poet, her face and a man was talking

to him about a profoundly enlightening experience.

He had a vision of God in this sense of experiencing merging with light and love and he asked her

face whether it was real.

And have faced and asked him, do you have any goats and the man nodded, do you have a wife?

Yeah, children, yeah, siblings, yeah, parents, friends, so he nodded at each.

And then have faced said the realness of your experience shows itself through the kindness

you express with each of the beings in your life.

And I think about that a lot that the outer expression of awakening heart is that kindness.

And pretty much every contemplative path, the religion that I've ever encountered, describes

it this way, it really honors the heart that can be generous and kind and friendly.

And certainly it's what we try to teach our children.

There's a story I've always liked of a mom who's preparing pancakes for her two sons,

Kevin's five and Ryan's three.

And the boys start arguing over who gets the first pancake.

So the mom sees this as an opportunity for a moral lesson and said, well, if Jesus was

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