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The poet Rumi has a really well-known teaching.

How many have you heard of it that your path is not to seek love, but merely

to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you've built against it.

And then he goes on to say and embrace them,

embrace them.

So it invites a powerful inquiry that you can drop in at any moment, which is,

what is between me and loving presence right now.

So this afternoon, what I'd like to do is focus on one of the major all-time barriers to love, which is the way we turn on ourselves with self-judgment, with

the sense of feeling flawed, feeling unlovable, deficient, that whole terrain.

And it often focuses on personal failure,

ways we feel like we failed,

or we are afraid we're going to fail.

So we're going to do that constellation.

And then explore the pathways of loving ourselves into healing.

Sound fun?

Our Darma party for the afternoon?

Yeah.

So retreats are an amazing zone because at a retreat you're deepening attention and it's actually an opportunity to witness close in just how chronic judging happens.

And by the way, this is really part of the architecture

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