A few days ago, one of the people that helps me with Facebook, my Facebook site, posted

something I had sent to her that in 24 hours had over a thousand likes, and so I thought

I'd share it with you. Some of you may follow it, but this was a story about two

twins, a pair of twins, and one, there were in different incubators, one was dying,

expected to die, and the other was fine, and a nurse fought against the hospital

regulations and had them put in the same incubator. And once they got into the same incubator,

the healthier one put her arm around the less healthy one in an embrace, and the one that

was supposedly dying, her temperature came up, her heartbeat stabilized and she made it.

So the picture comes with it, and it was really something to reflect on for me. I was mostly

interested on the level of the response to the story. You know, what is it in us that

responds pretty universally to that as a sense of goodness? And my experience as I reflect

on it is that it really takes us out of our, the small mindedness of our doings and reminds

us of what matters, that the real healing and the real joy in life is it comes from connectedness.

It comes from embracing each other, embracing ourselves, embracing life, and we can't embrace

life if we're on our way somewhere else, right? There's that wonderful teaching that to be

kind, we have to stray regularly from our path, that path that we're rolling forward into the

future to get the next thing done, right? So tonight's class is really part two, and a two-part

series on arousing happiness, and I'm basing it on a line from the poet Hafez, who says,

whereas you, my dear, still think you have a thousand serious moves. You know, he describes

this chess game, then Saints. They're playing with God and they just surrender joyfully, whereas we

think we have a thousand serious moves yet left ahead. And how that map that we live in, and you

sass yourself, this is true, do I have most moments of the day, do I have a map in my mind of,

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