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Namaste, greetings friends. I wanted to let you know about the talk that we're

live streaming tonight because it's one of the best of from the archives and it's

based on a wonderful quote from the psychologist Luis Cosalino. He writes that

we're not survival of the fittest. We're survival of the nurtured.

And some deep wisdom and osmosis that we live in an interdependent dance with others

and our capacity to flourish really depends on knowing and trusting that belonging.

And this talk is going to look at how so many of us experience severed belonging,

feeling cut off, separate. And we'll look at how our path, how the practices can help

restore true sense of connectedness. Just to cue you in if you listened to last week's

talk you'll notice an appearance of a very special donkey.

Okay friends, may this reflection serve you well. Many blessings.

Namaste and welcome. And a special welcome as always to our friends who are

living in a very special way. We're living in a very special way.

I'd like to begin with one of my favorite little pieces from a writer from the New Yorker.

And he describes how when his son turned 12, they seemed to lose their closeness.

And he couldn't find a way to establish connection, to have conversations. But then he stumbled on texting.

And although he had hoarded his son was doing it all the time so he figured, aha, this is the way in.

And his son taught him some abbreviations. But as he writes, the one he didn't have to teach me

because it was so self-evident was LOL. And I knew right away that it meant lots of love.

Because he put it at the end of every message he sent me.

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