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Welcome my friends to this week of our Sheltering and Love series.

Rather than a new talk, I've chosen one from my archives with a theme that's particularly

dear to my heart. It's called Remembering Basic Goodness, Three Gestures of Love.

And it explores the power of forgiveness, love, and gratitude in reconnecting to our own

light and awareness and really being able to see the sacredness that shines through

everyone. And I'm just so aware, particularly in times of crisis, that practicing these

particular gestures of love, it can truly feel like a pathway home.

So I hope you enjoy and I send you all blessings. Thank you.

One of the most powerful and direct inquiries that can help us wake up right through our daily

life is in any given moment, just to pause and say, what is between me and presence right

now? Or what is between me and really feeling at home and my body, my heart, with my world?

Just to ask that question is a way of immediately deepening attention. And what we usually find

out when we ask that question, what is between me and presence, is that there's these layers

of anxiety, our layers of distractedness, that there's usually some story about how we're

doing or what's expected of us or what we need to do and how things are going in our life.

And generally it has those aspects of who I am in relationship to other people. So there's

all these layers. Friend of mine was visiting this last weekend and we were talking about this,

this kind of inquiry and how we go into this trance and we don't realize we're not present for long

stretches and all of a sudden we'll go, oh wait a minute, where have I been? And so he was

describing an experience he had had a few months ago that I wanted to share with you and this

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