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Namaste and welcome.

I'm aware that I often begin with the classic Namaste and for those that might not be familiar,

the word Namaste Namo means I bow or I honor the divine.

It's the divine that lives and shines through you and through me and through the woods and the birds and all living beings.

And it's interesting because in the West, when we greet people, we kind of put out our hand and say,

hi, how are you?

And that's just show we don't have a gun.

And in Asia, Namaste, I see the divine in you.

It's a little bit of a different cultural twist.

There's a anonymous saying that everyone seems normal until we get to know them.

And it's such a familiar experience meeting someone in their kind of work persona or even their casual social persona.

And then if we happen to get to know them, all of a sudden, what unfolds is we get a window into their insecurities and into their family secrets maybe

and into their sweet eccentricities and the whole range.

And even behind that, a window into that depth of who they really are, a sense of goodness and beingness.

So we can move from that, they seem normal to something in us that's really engaged and in some way can say Namaste.

But that takes a really deep attention.

And we're often than not.

We stay at the level with people, where we're kind of living in our stories about them, who we've decided they are.

And we don't keep feeling into who is here.

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