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Welcome again friends. It really is good to be together.

I thought I'd start by just naming a compelling question that so many people I know around

the globe are reflecting on right now.

And that is what will bridge the divides.

And I know, you know what I mean.

What will bridge the divides?

And what will help us humans evolve beyond our separate cocooned realities that end

up creating so much distrust and fear and violence?

In this talk, what I'd like to do is focus on one key way each of us can contribute to

evolving consciousness, to evolving our own consciousness and our species consciousness.

And that's cultivating our capacity for deep listening.

I mean, just imagine if people from different political parties and groups and nations in

conflict actually did a little bit of training and practice so that they could a little bit

more listen to each other, to get some sense of being able to look through another's

eyes, which Henry David Thoreau described as the greatest miracle possible really, to

look through each other's eyes.

It is possible though.

We have this built-in capacity to listen and we can cultivate listening.

And of course, it is difficult.

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