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This class is the second of a two-part series called The Courage to Love.

I begin with a story from many years past that I like to share about a therapist who encouraged

his client who had come to some meditation classes to take the dive and do a retreat.

I think it was a three or five day retreat.

He said it will help.

The man went to the retreat and when he came in for his next session, the therapist asked

him how, when he said it was really challenging.

It was really difficult.

I felt a lot of fear and I went into a place of deep grieving.

At one point, I really got caught up in lust and then self-condemnation.

It was really hard.

You said that you thought it would help.

The therapist said, yes, you're learning to feel your fear better and you're learning

to feel your lust better and you're learning to fear whatever he had named.

The retreat taught him to feel better, but it was to feel the difficult emotions better.

The question is how come that's important?

One of the ways we sometimes describe it, we often talk about the circle of awareness

and the line that's through it and below the line is where we're unconscious and above

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