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The title of tonight's talk is, What's It Like Being You?

I begin with an email that I received recently, a man describing meditating with one of my

guided meditations.

And he was there and his little three-year-old son was sitting nearby quietly.

I'm not understanding at all what his dad was doing, listening to this voice that was

saying, sensing presence, touching presence.

So there he was.

But in a moment of this excited comprehension, like kind of illumination, little boy, you

know, to remarked real loudly to his dad, hey, I can do that too.

I can touch presence.

His dad loved it.

And so really, we're talking about what's it like being you, this inquiry that requires

presence for us to begin to attune to each other in that deep way we need to be here.

And it's an evolutionary capacity that we have.

We have this capacity for affiliate of care, to tune into each other and to care about

each other.

And really, this capacity is the hope of our world.

If we can develop it, which we can, I don't know how fast, I don't know what other forces

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