Hello and welcome back to the practicing human podcast

the podcast where every day we are getting a little better at life

and the podcast where quarry still doesn't have the right microphone.

Yes, the microphone still has not arrived.

So I'm on my headset microphone, which is nice

because it's totally hands-free and I can move my head in a lot of different directions and the sound

doesn't change.

But it's a little tinny and airy.

So hope we can deal with it for one more episode.

Mike will be coming tomorrow. Today we're going to continue on the theme of the last

couple episodes meaning yesterday's episodes and two episodes before that and I'm going to share another quote from my book that is just pointing to like

how we can continue to hold

more dimensions of our human experience and how to be in relationship to that.

So more to come on that soon.

First, let's start as we always do with the sound of the bell.

Even if you zone out typically, see if you could bring your full

presence to the sound all the way until it dissolves into silence. Yes. So if you've been following along the podcast, especially at the last few episodes.

I've been sharing various quotes from my book

and just building on them.

And the last few have been from the first chapter and this is another one from actually the

first or the second page of chapter one chapter one is titled being human is

hard by the way it's not the sexiest most uplifting chapter title or the

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