It is time for the weekly pep talk and this honestly might be one of my favorite ones

my mom has done because I don't know if she's getting the hang of it I feel like

only took her two years. I don't know, I just feel like she was passionate about the topic today.

Talking about how we're way more different, I mean, we're way more

seamless as she does. We're way more similar than we are different and like taking the

time to realize that about each other. These are just five minutes or so little pep talks

every week that we do. And then full episodes start back on Monday. Have a great evening

until tomorrow. See you then.

I was thinking this week about Tick Not Hon. No, he recently died at the age of 90 and

I believe he was 90, was at least 90, maybe older. Anyway, it's not important. He was of course a

wonderful Buddhist monk and a magnificent teacher and his teachings of course are from

the Buddhist tradition. But they're all focused on love and peace and one of the books that

I had not read that he's written is Living Buddha Living Christ. And I just finished it and

it's just such a mindful thought-provoking book about how we are so much more alike

than we are different. Not only in our religions, most religions all have the basic

tenets of love and peace and doing good in the world, but how we differ as human beings

based on where we were born, what country we came from, what our experience has been,

and we're also unique in our being. And that so often conflicts come because we don't recognize

and appreciate the differences and not only our religions, but in each other. One of the things

that was most meaningful to me in my experience with homeless families at Rainbow Village

was learning to listen to their plight, learning to try and understand where they had been,

where they came from, what their life experience had been that would have brought them to this place

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