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, welcome.

Many of you know Namaste, welcome.

Many of you know of Dorothy Day, the Catholic social activist canonized saint.

And one of the moments that shaped her life was when she was eight years old.

She was a young girl in San Francisco during the earthquake of 1906.

So she was living in Oakland. And she watched people emerging from that devastation.

She watched all the adults around her starting to, just caring for strangers in ways she had never seen before. And with that kind of

clear sightedness of a child, she sees that somehow they knew to do this all along. They

knew how. And then she asked this question, why can't we live this way all the time? And that longing for a loving world,

that inquiry, why can't we live this way all the time, was a driving force in her life. And so

here we are, friends, our entire world is quaking.

And as I speak, many are feeling the devastation, feeling enraged, feeling underneath that kind of heartbreak from the entrenched hostility and violence between humans, the weakening of democracy, such a scale of suffering.

And so while our larger body, this earth, is heating up, all life systems are threatened, the clock is ticking.

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