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Got a lot of things going on, crazy things going on in my life, my personal life that I'm struggling with and dealing with, practicing, learning to practice what I teach, you know, when you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change, like when things come along that are difficult for you, especially with your children, having learning how to change the way you look at something to make a change is a really important lesson I've been thinking about,

and I've also been thinking about, you know, what happened over there with this pilot in Jordan, in the cage, in the burning, and so on, and the difficulty of that and coming to grips with it, because I don't know, I just take it very personally, I mean that has brought me to tears already many, many times, and you know, and it's any anytime we engage in violence of any kind,

in our world, whether it's personally in our lives, even in having violent words or violent thoughts or angry thoughts towards others, it creates, you know, more violence, and then we just get ourselves, so it's such a difficult concept, this idea of, we just think we get so angry at what's going on over there, we think, well, we just have to blow them off the face of the earth, and we have to, you know, it's darkness, darkness, darkness is what we're looking at,

and then to think that the way to resolve it is to send more darkness, you know, more killing, you know, drop more bombs, you know, then we burn people alive, only we do it from bombs above in the air, you know, we just call it collateral damage, but to that family, I mean, that's as every bit as horrible as the family of the young pilot who was so, so horribly maimed and executed, and I was looking through a book that I wrote,

a few years back, it's called Inspiration, your ultimate calling, which we're reissuing under a new title, because I just don't think that this book has had the kind of exposure that I'd like it to have, it's just one of the things I'm most proud of, we did a whole public television special on it, and so we're going to reissue it under the title, living an inspired life, it's been out about 10 years.

And we're in that, in this book there is a, there's a letter that was written by my friend Ramdas, now Ramdas was one of the people that was most influential in my life, especially in terms of my professional life, the kind of speaking that I do, the kind of writing that I've done, his approach to living, his great sense of humor, his ability to tell great stories, and to make, you know, what sometimes it seems as a taric and difficult concept.

It's to make it come alive, and years ago, before I had a chance to meet Ramdas, Ramdas lives on Maui, where I have a residence, and you know, we're very, very close friends, and someone that I love very, very much.

He had, he received a letter from someone from the parents of a girl who had been murdered, and just, you know, senselessly murdered, and I keep, I always think about that letter when I think about how do I process these kinds of events that are showing up on our television sets, you know, and we actually see the images.

My friend actually watched the entire video, I don't know if you've seen that I am, but it's the, I can watch that.

Yeah, I just couldn't, he asked me if I wanted to see it, and I said no, I just don't, it's already such a horrible image in me to actually watch, you know, to watch the take place, it just wasn't something I wanted to do.

But anyway, I got that letter out, and I just thought I shared here today, because the whole world is kind of reeling with the, with the anguish of, in the aftermath of this kind of thing,

and we're going back now, we're getting ready to do more bombing and more killing, and there's lots of revenge, and there's lots of hatred in our hearts, and I just feel a sense of personal responsibility since I have a pretty big voice, and a lot of people listen to what I have to say, and they read my books, and so on, and I think it's incumbent upon me to, to read this letter today, so I just thought I would read it, and it's almost as if I'm writing it to the parents of, of the pilot in Jordan.

And who was executed in that way, but I'm also writing it to everybody who's ever experienced a tragic loss, and especially a horrible loss, especially at the hands of somebody else in a violent way.

And so these parents, their, their name are Stephen and Anita, they wrote, Ramdas the letter, and just asked him, how could he was their spiritual teacher, as he's been mine.

And he just said, how can I, how can I deal with this in my own, how can the parents ask, how can we deal with, how can we come to grips with the fact that our daughter was senselessly murdered and left, left to die in an act of violence.

And this is what he said, her name was Rachel, and he said, dear Stephen and Anita, Rachel finished, this is one of the most profound, I included it in my book, in the book Inspiration.

I've read this every time I introduced Ramdas at a talk or anything.

Dear Stephen and Anita, Rachel finished her work on Earth and left the stage in a manner that leaves those of us left behind with a cry of agony in our hearts, as the fragile thread of our faith is dealt with so violently.

Is anyone strong enough to stay conscious through such teachings as you are receiving, probably very few, and even they would only have a whisper of equanimity and peace amidst the screaming fumpets of their rage, their grief, their horror and desolation.

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