So last week I spoke on really how we align our behavior with our heart and just

acknowledging that there's really no freedom if we're moving through the day and

we're kind of blaming people and judging people and getting angry or violating

our own body with addictive behaviors. It's very hard to come home to who we are

when we're acting in ways that don't really connect with who we are. And if we

investigate because every one of us acts in ways that in some level we feel

this isn't the way I want to be and if we investigate what's behind those

behaviors we will find that in some way we're hurting always whenever we cause

suffering or harm to ourselves or others there's hurting underneath there's

unmet needs that we haven't become conscious of and that we haven't addressed

and there needs to feel safe and in a very deep way we each have the need to

feel lovable and worthy and if we don't feel that we end up behaving in ways

that make us feel less lovable and less worthy we get into this cycle. One of

the ways I like to put it is that we each have a need to trust our basic

goodness. That term basic goodness is brings up questions for people so I just

want to just take a moment with it you know according to many philosophies we

are not basically good. I mean starting from eating on upward right you know we

got kicked out of the garden because of in some way being sinful or bad and then

you've got Hobbes who says without laws to govern us we live lives that are

solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short. So basic goodness and I got very

interested to find that the derivative of the word good, the root of the word

good, it comes from the same Indo-European root GE as the words gather and

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