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Most weeks as I approach doing our Wednesday class, I kind of reflect on what's really

most alive to me and what feels most alive in the world. And the word that keeps arising

and this isn't new is belonging. Many of you know John O'Donohue who's passed away

as a poet, mystic, and he writes that our life's journey is the task of refining our belonging

so that it may become more true, loving, good, and free. Refining our belonging, we

might expand that to say that it's our species journey to refine our belonging to realize

our interconnectedness with all of life. So I've always loved the word belonging. It's

a heart word and it kind of conveys to be truly at home. And it starts belonging starts

with being at home in the aliveness that's right here. We really can't belong to anything

else if we don't feel belonging and inhabiting and filling our own bodies and hearts. And

even as I begin to speak about it tonight, we might pause for a moment just to attune

some, you might close your eyes. And just with some curiosity, just a sense, well, how

do I experience belonging? This is to sense what it means to you. And just a sense of my

alive right here, feeling belonging to this changing flow of sensations and energy in this

body. Do you feel belonging to the life in your body right now? Just check it out. Are

you at home with the life of your body? And do you feel at home with whatever emotions

are here connected and opened to the changing flow of moods and emotions? Are you belonging

to your emotional life? Do you feel at home and belonging with others in your life? If

you bring to mind, start with those who are easier, is there a sense of belonging of

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