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There's an old Jewish expression that goes,

love thy neighbor even if he plays the trombone.

It's really the benign intention of most paths in some way to care about each other.

I know so many of us are aware that the stark contrast of especially here in the United States,

these last weeks, months, longer, the level of hostility and the emotion swirling

with the day after the midterm.

There's a lot, a lot broiling.

I think for many underneath at all is the longing for a more compassionate world.

I know that's the truth for me.

I'm really glad that in this particular gathering we're going to be exploring that some more.

We, the last class explored part one of a two-part series on compassion.

The first class was really exploring how we wake up that caring for our inner life.

In looking at how we wake it up for each other, we still have to keep coming back over and over again

to embracing what's right here because we can't widen the circles if we're in any way turned against the being right here.

We'll be looking at that and we'll be looking at really how we can open to the full potential of our heart, this compassion.

I really loved, I put this on Facebook today, what Van Jones said.

This is his kind of wisdom offering for the day after midterm elections.

He said, it's in the convergence of spiritual people becoming active,

and active people becoming spiritual that the hope of humanity rests.

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