 just a couple blocks from our house and he stooped down and picked up a Kind of piece of concrete that was coming apart from the sidewalk he He'll live for a while. We were talking and put it back down again And we began to walk on and this guy called called out pick that up like in this really aggressive voice, you know and and It even before I could think I felt like this stab of hatred Like I wanted something bad to happen to that guy wanted him to to get his you know, right and Underneath that and like I was like wow like I didn't know I had such hate in me for for such a small thing you know like for that split second I wanted him to Have some really bad consequence for that, you know, and And so I kind of as I was walking I kind of carried that feeling with me and Explored it a little bit and felt like this wound underneath it this feeling of of being Tiny and alone in a huge unjust world full of of Enemies full of people who I couldn't trust full of people who even if they didn't Dislike me. They were indifferent to me. There are these there are others. They're not my they're not me There are these foreign beings Which I think is a common feeling And so when I'm talking about the new story, I'm talking about seeing the world through a different set of eyes Which requires You know, so intellectually I've accepted a new story That you know, in fact that person is who yelled that at us He's not really a separate other but in fact, he's a reflection of something in me And if I were in his situation if I had had his childhood if I had had his bad day That day if I had had everything that he had if I were in his situation Then I would behave the same way that he did like I know that intellectual and and that intellectual knowledge is beginning to to sink down into my body But I still haven't fully embodied that new story. So I've just said what the new story is the new story is oneness It's hard to say it's not sounding like a new age cliche, but it's oneness. It's interconnectedness. It's inner being It's the understanding that we're not alone in this cold and personal universe of force and mass Where everybody's separate from everybody else But we're we're we're together. We're we're not separate but to fully embody that is process and That process takes time and it takes help It's not something that anyone can do alone. It's not something I can do alone I've had a lot of Experiences that helped open me more and more to the truth of this other way of seeing and it's other way of being and Those experiences usually were some were something when I experienced love Coming from another person who I witnessed some act of great love or act of generosity and That opened something in me too