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Jul 2024
49m 17s

From Ego to Eco-Identity - Homecoming to...

TARA BRACH
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Our human loneliness and suffering arise from getting identified in a mental ego, and separating ourselves from the living web of our natural world. This talk explores the pathway back to sacred relationship, and offers reflections and practices that awaken intimacy with the non-human world. 

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