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Welcome, my friends.

I regularly get questions from people who listen to this podcast about how to be caring,

how to keep our hearts open in a world that feels increasingly divided

and hostile and threatening.

And it does seem that as the years pass that the heat's turning up, you know, physically,

metaphysically, that this life, this world, everything's speeding up,

and really the challenges are more starkly compelling.

And what's so amazing to me is that at the same time, I'm just seeing a continued increase

in the numbers of people drawn to meditation,

to practices that will help them deepen clarity and presence and live from the heart.

So they're both going on.

And well, maybe you've noticed the same, that there's some basic longing in us humans

that's drawing us to awaken our consciousness through these times.

So today I'm sharing a talk from two years ago.

It's about how to navigate in a challenging world. And it points to both the darkness

of the times and also our potential to respond to darkness by calling forth ever more fully

the light of our hearts and spirits. And I often think this happened many years ago, the Dalai Lama was meeting

with some Western teachers who asked for a message for their students. And his message was,

trust the power of heart and awareness to awaken through all circumstances.

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