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Over these last few weeks, we've been focusing a lot on relationships, really, on honesty and intimacy,

evolving our capacity for love and understanding.

And the underlying theme is that all feeling and all freedom come from remembering or belonging,

really belonging to our own beingness, belonging to each other to this living world.

And so we're going to continue in this session to just look at our potential,

our potential for sacred relatedness and to mention that those who are interested in taking a deeper dive into this domain,

I'm doing a six week program this fall on conscious loving, you can find more about it on the homepage.

I'll begin with a brief story where a woman goes to see a fortune teller and she wants to find a way to contact her husband,

who passed away recently and she's got much sorrow and a real longing for some precious moments with them.

After some incantations and whatever the fortune teller says, okay, I'm getting your dear departed husband,

and there's this long pause.

He says he can't believe you paid $45 for this.

And so I'm aware that there's a very limp joke and it leads into considering in our own lives.

How many moments are we with others, and instead of really connecting, we get caught in some old pattern of reactivity,

or we're simply on autopilot and we're not remembering how precious it is to have moments of presence of spontaneity,

of authenticity, you know, real loving togetherness.

You know, I was very struck by something that John O'Donohue, poet, mystic said, he said,

I am lonesome for all the conversations we never had,

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