pain, sorrow, and suffering in such a way that the church has seen in her heart a model that can gnosis. >> the title of this icon is very interesting. it is called the softener of evil or cruel hearts. mary is the the cruel or the most evil heart looking upon her participation her unique suffering would soften even the most hardest of hearts. >> c7 swords, and again, it shows this depiction that a sword shall enter your soul and again, there are a variety of sorrows that are depicted symbolize for the seven swords, the flight into egypt, the loss of child in the temple, and the meeting of our lady, the way of the cross, the crucifixion itself, of course. the piercing of his heart, the taking down of the cross, all of these express her sharing and her sorrowful heart. >> why inflict that on her? it is able to know the joy of right direction. -- of the resurrection. she is also known as the joint of all who sorrow, the comforter of the afflicted, the searcher for those who are lost. stento and respond to the needs of her children, so all of this is not modeled so much as out of this pain

. >> i don't know if you know anything about this stuff but is there a role for gnosis and altering habits? >> i don't know anything about the evidence for it. >> maybe we will take two more. so david wasik says hi bus, thank you for a great topic. given habits developed with long-term goals , either implicit or indirect rewards, would you recommend a way to bring your reward closer to the present or make it more explicit when starting to develop a newhabit . i think you talked about for the good habits, there's not really a reward. >> that's interesting. that's a great question. one of the things that we, it's exactly right. why do i floss? it's because i'm doing that in service of a reward that isn't going tocome years down the road . like not getting gum disease or at some point down the road. that's one of the things we know about future rewards is they are much more, our mind treats them as much more abstract than in the rewards. an immediate reward is tangible. the long-term reward of not getting gum disease isreally abstract . one of the things people thought about his there's this