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Talk + Meditation: How to Feel Lived by Love
August 2, 2025

Feeling isolated, burdened, or unseen? In a world that often feels fragmented and exhausting—with anxiety, stress, and a subtle sense that you’re not quite enough—you may long to feel more supported, connected, and grounded.

So this week I invite you to shift from striving to be loved to being carried by love—not imaginary, but foundational. This kind of living transforms ordinary experiences: the events of your day might stay the same, but how you feel through them—and how they affect you—can change dramatically. In this talk, I share:

  • How to identify the felt sense of being carried, not left to push forward alone
  • Practices that encourage love to open through you
  • How to shift from a top‑down, “must act on it” stance to a more receptive, grounded belonging
  • How life’s persistent gifts—evolutionary forces, the natural world, kindness from others, and consciousness itself—are ever-present supports

When enough individuals begin to be lived by love, personal lives transform—and collective change becomes possible. In a world teetering between justice and strife, being lived by love isn’t just helpful—it’s essential .

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Talk: How to Feel Lived by Love

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Timecodes:

00:00 – Opening: Sensing Support and Goodness Recognize simple intentions and feel carried by supportive forces within and around you.

05:29 – Practicing Being Lived by Love Shift from striving to receptivity; imagine daily life guided by love and supported by reality.

11:00 – Relationships and Compassion Feel loved into being, extend compassion to others, and bring love into interactions—even conflict.

20:19 – Loving Yourself and Your Parts Embrace every part of yourself with love and self-compassion, allowing healing and integration.

23:44 – Love in a Challenging World Anchor yourself in compassion, integrity, and trust even in divided or competitive environments.

39:32 – Trusting Life’s Support Relax into life’s support, set healthy boundaries, and let love naturally flow through you

A Meditation: Calm and Kind

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When life feels scattered or tense, it’s powerful to return to simple grounding and heartfelt presence. In this meditation, you’ll settle into your body, release unnecessary anxiety, and open to calm strength and a sense of being safe in the here and now. From this steady foundation, you’ll soften into feelings of warmth, caring, and being cared for—allowing them to ripple through you and sink in deeply.

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And if you like, you may wish to participate in the age-old tradition of generosity through making an offering yourself – called “dāna” – to support Rick and the Wednesday Meditations. Generosity itself is a beautiful practice that opens and gladdens the heart, relaxes the contraction of “self,” and ripples out into the world to touch many people – and perhaps, eventually, even oneself. 

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