Welcome, friends, to the Tara Brock podcast. I'm so glad you're here.

Each week, I share teachings and guided meditations to help us awaken our hearts and bring healing

to our world.

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Now, let's explore together

the many ways we can live

from the love and presence that's our deepest

essence.

Namaste, friends, welcome and thank you so much for being here.

I'd like to begin with a short story.

It was the coldest winter ever and many animals died because of the cold.

The porcupines, realizing the situation, decided to group together.

This way, they covered and protected themselves, but the quills of each one wounded the closest

companions, even though they shared their heat with each other. After a while, they decided

to distance themselves from one

another to stop being wounded. As they did this, they began to die, alone and frozen. So they

had to make a choice, either except the quills of their companions, or disappear from the earth. Wisely, they decided to go back to being together again.

This way, they learned to live with the little wounds

that were caused by the closest relationship with their companion,

but the most important part of it was the heat that came from the others that enabled them

to survive the coldest winter ever.

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