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I'm a stay.

Like to begin with a story that I've loved from writer Andria Shah.

I think I've got the name pronounced right.

He describes a certain bektashi dervish who was really respected for his wisdom and

piety and would share his teachings at a coffee house on a regular basis.

People would always ask him, well, how did you become so holy?

And he always had a kind of mysterious look and he'd say, well, I know what is in the

Quran.

So one time he'd just given that response to an inquire and a new person there visiting

the area said, well, okay, what's in the Quran?

And the response was the bektashi said, well, in the Quran there are two pressed flowers

and a letter from my friend Abdullah.

In this human realm, the expression of spirit is a loving heart.

That's what plays out in our humanness.

And from an evolutionary perspective, it's the manifestation of an awake awareness at

the heart that really lets us live in a way that expresses our full potential.

So one of the inquiries that I think is so valuable in a moment is, well, what right

now is between me and an awake heart?

You know, in some way, how am I developmentally arrested in this moment, not really manifesting?

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