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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'll begin with a short story. Namaste, welcome friends.

So I'll begin with a short story and this is of a nun who joins an abbey and takes this

bow of silence.

And then after the first 10 years the mother superior calls her in and says, do you have anything to say? And the nun replies,

food bad. So another 10 years passed, and the nun again has an opportunity to voice her thoughts.

And she says, bed hard. Another 10 years go by. And again, she's called in before Mother Superior.

And when she's asked if she has anything to say, she responds, I quit. And the Mother Superior says,

well, it doesn't surprise me a bit. You've done nothing but complain ever since you got here.

So I begin here because most of us have an inner complainer and it's so ongoing and familiar

that we might not even notice how much we have this habit of fixating on what

is going wrong, you know, how the world's not cooperating.

And when the complaints are charged, there's a felt sense of being a victim of others or

of circumstance of life.

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