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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, welcome friends.

So I begin with a brief story about a woman who's in a job interview and the interviewer saying,

well, tell me what do you think your biggest character defect would be?

And her response was honesty.

And he said to her, honesty, I wouldn't consider honesty a defect. And her response was honesty. And he said to her honesty, I wouldn't consider honesty

a defect. And her reply, I don't care what the hell you think. So I'm opening with this because

I'm going to be sharing with you one of my favorite talks from the archives and it's on honesty and what it

really means and what it really takes to be honest with ourselves and each other. And for many

like this woman, it doesn't necessarily mean saying what's on the top of our mind, especially

if we haven't investigated and gotten real with what's underneath.

So as most are aware, on a societal level, we are desensitizing to the scale and degree of

deception.

We've gotten used to it.

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