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Thank you for joining me for this week's reflection.

I'll begin with one of my favorite prayers which goes like this.

Dear God, so far today I've done all right.

I haven't gossiped or been greedy, grumpy, nasty, selfish, or self-indulgent.

I'm very thankful for that.

But in a few minutes, God, I'm going to get out of bed.

And from then, I'm going to need a lot of help.

So it's a prayer to begin us because there is a lot of energy we exert towards monitoring,

how we're doing, and really guiding ourselves, managing ourselves.

Some years ago, Ram Das, who you might know, wrote, be here now, and he passed away recently.

Well, he was in DC and I attended something he was offering.

He said that when he first started practicing, he said, I was filled with judgment and craving,

and anger, and judgment, and impatience.

And he said, now, after decades of meditation and prayer, I'm still filled with judgment,

and craving, and anger, and impatience.

But he said the differences, now they're like these little shmuzes that come and go.

They don't really bother me.

So this is the proverbial bad news, good news.

Bad news is that most of the core challenging emotions that you experience like fear, like

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