Okay, so first off, I just want to say how happy I am to be here and see all of you.

I had a great time away and I was really, really looking forward to being here.

And I know that there was a terrific lineup of teachers.

I hope that many of you got to enjoy it.

I have immense gratitude towards Gina and Law and Hugh, dear friends and fabulous teachers

for being here.

So I hope you enjoyed that part of things.

So tonight's talk is a talk I've never given before and it's something I've been reflecting

on a lot over the last few years.

And it's really the role of hope on the spiritual path.

What is the role of hope of trusting these unfolding lives, trusting ourselves this

world?

And I find that hope is something we're not necessarily a monitoring for.

Oh, I'm feeling this amount of hope right now.

It's kind of an invisible quality in our awareness.

But it impacts how we take in the world.

It impacts all parts of our life, it really determines whether we're open to the possibilities

that are actually always right here.

And it determines how engaged we get in our lives and how wholehearted we are and whether

we're aligning ourselves with what most matters.

So we'll explore this a bit.

And since I've never talked about it before, it may be a little bit meandering.

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