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Confronting questions for men. · Council of Kings

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  SPEAKER_01: Brother, what are you avoiding in your life?
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  SPEAKER_01: What do you not want to look at in your life?
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  SPEAKER_01: Where in your life are you abandoning your deepest truth,
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  SPEAKER_01: mission,
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  SPEAKER_01: love,
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  SPEAKER_01: grace,
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  SPEAKER_01: and potency as a man?
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  SPEAKER_01: In what ways are you
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  SPEAKER_01: subtle ways are you afraid of embodying your true power?
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  In what ways are you afraid of leaving no stone unturned in
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  your search for the
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  SPEAKER_01: authentic truth of what you are?
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  SPEAKER_01: In what ways are you being a coward?
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  SPEAKER_01: In what ways are you cowering and shying away from
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  SPEAKER_01: putting in the work,
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  SPEAKER_01: doing the next set of push-ups,
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  SPEAKER_01: going to the gym,
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  having the hard conversation with your wife about the honest
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  feelings that you've
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  been holding back and that you haven't been expressing for
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  months or years on end
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  that are gradually building up within you and leading to a
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  slow-motion disaster.
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  Where in life are you shying away from your sacred duty as a
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  man to be a profound
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  SPEAKER_01: presence of clarity,
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  SPEAKER_01: of honesty,
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  SPEAKER_01: of truth,
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  SPEAKER_01: of willingness,
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  SPEAKER_01: of authenticity,
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  SPEAKER_01: of directness,
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  SPEAKER_01: of order,
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  SPEAKER_01: of stability,
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  SPEAKER_01: of lightness,
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  SPEAKER_01: of joy,
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  SPEAKER_01: of playfulness,
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  SPEAKER_01: of joy?
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  SPEAKER_01: seriousness when need be, guardianship, stewardship, being a shepherd.
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  These are penetrating questions,
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  my friends,
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  penetrating,
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  confronting questions.
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  SPEAKER_01: And that is a big part of what men need on earth at this time.
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  SPEAKER_01: You need to ask yourself better questions and
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  SPEAKER_01: And you need to not settle for easy answers.
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  SPEAKER_01: You need to keep asking these questions over and over and over again,
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  SPEAKER_01: mulling them over,
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  SPEAKER_01: chewing on them,
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  SPEAKER_01: journaling about them,
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  SPEAKER_01: contemplating them deeply for years on end,
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  SPEAKER_01: finding brothers and role models who can give you better answers to these
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  SPEAKER_01: questions,
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  SPEAKER_01: who can shine a light on the blind spot that you can't see,
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  SPEAKER_01: that's been hamstringing your growth,
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  SPEAKER_01: your evolution,
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  SPEAKER_01: your healing for the last 20 years.
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  SPEAKER_01: and handicapping everything you're trying to do.
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  You need to put yourself in spaces where you've got a circle of
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  men who you respect
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  SPEAKER_01: that can act as a hall of mirrors,
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  SPEAKER_01: where you see yourself in every single brother.
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  SPEAKER_01: You see yourself in your struggle.
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  SPEAKER_01: You find yourself in his stories, and you learn from his wisdom.
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  You need a tribe of elders and shepherds and stewards,
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  philosophers,
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  warriors,
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  builders,
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  SPEAKER_01: to hold up the mirror for you,
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  SPEAKER_01: to hold up the loving mirror,
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  SPEAKER_01: to lovingly challenge you,
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  SPEAKER_01: to lovingly confront you,
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  SPEAKER_01: to tell you when you're full of shit,
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  SPEAKER_01: to tell you when we don't believe you.
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  SPEAKER_01: What you're saying is coming from your mind.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's coming from a store.
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  SPEAKER_01: We don't feel it from your heart.
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  SPEAKER_01: We don't feel it from your belly.
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  SPEAKER_01: We don't feel it from your pelvis.
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  SPEAKER_01: We don't feel it from your manhood.
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  SPEAKER_01: We don't feel it all the way through.
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  SPEAKER_01: Give us the truth that you can tell us with your whole body brother.
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  SPEAKER_01: What do you stand for?
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  SPEAKER_01: What is your mission soldier?
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  SPEAKER_01: What would you die for?
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  SPEAKER_01: What would you not hesitate to protect?
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  SPEAKER_01: Would you hesitate even a moment to take a bullet for your daughter,
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  SPEAKER_01: for your son,
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  SPEAKER_01: for an innocent child?
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  These are the questions that we as men have avoided in many
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  cases that we don't want to look at.
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  SPEAKER_01: We'd rather remain in a perpetually infantilized state,
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  SPEAKER_01: scrolling the next feed,
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  SPEAKER_01: playing the next video game,
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  SPEAKER_01: watching the next artificial image
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  SPEAKER_01: sex video brothers there's a reason men on this earth are in deep despair
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  alienation disconnection there's a reason five million men
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  killed themselves on
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  this earth in the past decade it is because men are avoiding
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  the true quest for
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  SPEAKER_01: truth
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  SPEAKER_01: There's one thing in a man's life that is a non-negotiable,
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  and that is the true quest for the truth and love at the center
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  of our being.
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  SPEAKER_01: If that is missing, if a man has not authentically engaged that quest,
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  SPEAKER_01: He will not be living anywhere near his potential.
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  SPEAKER_01: He will feel out of place.
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  SPEAKER_01: He will feel he doesn't truly belong in the world.
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  SPEAKER_01: He will feel insecure.
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  SPEAKER_01: He will feel anxious.
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  SPEAKER_01: He will not actualize his true mission.
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  SPEAKER_01: And he will not feel truly at home.
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  SPEAKER_01: He will not feel truly at home in this now moment.
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  SPEAKER_01: So that's what it takes, brothers.
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  SPEAKER_01: It requires...
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  This quest for truth,
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  a man's life,
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  is a daring quest for truth or nothing at all.
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  SPEAKER_01: If you are not connected to the pulsing,
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  SPEAKER_01: vibrating inferno of loving truth and grace in your heart of hearts,
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  SPEAKER_01: in the center of your being as a man,
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  SPEAKER_01: then you are lost.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm afraid to tell you.
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  SPEAKER_01: You've got to come home.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's the story of the prodigal son.
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  SPEAKER_01: Home is always there waiting with open arms.
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  You can never wander so far away that you can't come back home
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  to right here in
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  SPEAKER_01: your chest,
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  SPEAKER_01: pulsing grace,
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  SPEAKER_01: heart of hearts,
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  SPEAKER_01: stainless innocence,
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  SPEAKER_01: divinity.
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  SPEAKER_01: Right here, the kingdom of God is within you.
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  SPEAKER_01: The king of kings said it himself.
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  SPEAKER_01: The gentle lamb, the kingdom of God is within you.
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  SPEAKER_01: but you have to find it.
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  SPEAKER_01: You have to care enough to find it.
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  SPEAKER_01: You have to care enough to pray for it.
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  You have to care enough to weep,
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  to fall on your knees,
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  to ask God,
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  take the false from me.
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  Whatever I'm living that's not true to you,
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  take it,
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  burn it,
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  throw it in the fire.
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  SPEAKER_01: I don't want it.
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  SPEAKER_01: Not my will, thy will be done.
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  SPEAKER_01: Not my will, thy will be done.
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  SPEAKER_01: God's will.
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  truth pure love pure love lead me where your treasure is there
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  your heart shall be
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  SPEAKER_01: where your heart is there is your true treasure we are asked to
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  SPEAKER_01: Discover,
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  SPEAKER_01: brothers,
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  SPEAKER_01: the full embodied truth of our being,
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  the potency of our full masculine fertility and creativity and
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  bring it under love.
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  SPEAKER_01: Under love.
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  SPEAKER_01: This was the great error of Aleister Crowley.
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  SPEAKER_01: He said, love under will.
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  SPEAKER_01: He tried to put love under the will of a being.
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  SPEAKER_01: And that inversion is a fatal error.
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  SPEAKER_01: Love is the truth.
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  SPEAKER_01: God's love is the truth.
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  And when a man tries to put his own will and his own power
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  above the love of God,
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  SPEAKER_01: then pride cometh before a fall.
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  SPEAKER_01: Pride cometh before a fall.
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  SPEAKER_01: That inversion doesn't work because it's not aligned with the logos.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's not aligned with the way.
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  SPEAKER_01: There is a way, brothers.
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  SPEAKER_01: There is a path.
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  SPEAKER_01: There is a through line running through all creation.
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  SPEAKER_01: And when you align with that...
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  SPEAKER_01: You beam like the sun.
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  SPEAKER_01: You become a force of nature.
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  SPEAKER_01: You live the truth that you're here to live.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm not saying it's always going to be easy.
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  SPEAKER_01: Fuck no, it's not always easy.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's incredibly hard.
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  SPEAKER_01: It requires tremendous sacrifice.
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  SPEAKER_01: And you're still human.
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  SPEAKER_01: You still feel...
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  SPEAKER_01: All the pain of the human experience,
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  you feel more because you're more sensitized to the pain of
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  this world and the
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  SPEAKER_01: tragedy of how far we have departed from love.
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  SPEAKER_01: You feel the gap, the massive extent to which mankind has diverged.
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  SPEAKER_01: From the radical,
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  SPEAKER_01: unconditional,
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  SPEAKER_01: universal,
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  SPEAKER_01: all-encompassing,
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  SPEAKER_01: imminent,
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  SPEAKER_01: transcendent love that we truly are in our heart of hearts.
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  SPEAKER_01: That God truly is.
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  SPEAKER_01: That we are invited to partake of.
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  SPEAKER_01: The kingdom.
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  SPEAKER_01: You feel the gap.
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  SPEAKER_01: You feel the tragedy of that.
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  SPEAKER_01: And it activates you.
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  SPEAKER_01: It galvanizes you.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's where you find your mission.
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  SPEAKER_01: You want to do something about it.
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  SPEAKER_01: You want to do something about it.
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  SPEAKER_01: You don't just want to
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  SPEAKER_01: Go into a victim mentality and tell yourself, poor me, this world sucks.
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  SPEAKER_01: I never asked to be born.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm just going to waste away on the sofa for the rest of my life.
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  SPEAKER_01: Ripping the bong and, you know, watching nudie videos.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's not what you truly want in your heart, brother.
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  SPEAKER_01: You're here for a reason.
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  SPEAKER_01: You want to do something about it.
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  SPEAKER_01: You want to be a man who cares.
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  SPEAKER_01: Who fucking cares.
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  SPEAKER_01: Truly.
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  SPEAKER_01: About your kids.
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  SPEAKER_01: About your wife.
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  SPEAKER_01: About your friends,
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  SPEAKER_01: your family,
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  SPEAKER_01: your parents,
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  SPEAKER_01: your grandparents,
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  SPEAKER_01: your cousins,
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  SPEAKER_01: your aunts and uncles.
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  SPEAKER_01: About people on the other side of the world you've never met.
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  SPEAKER_01: About all beings.
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  SPEAKER_01: In our heart of hearts, that's what we long for.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's what we know is home.
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  SPEAKER_01: That universal love.
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  SPEAKER_01: And we've forgotten it.
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  SPEAKER_01: We've forgotten it as men.
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  SPEAKER_01: We've forgotten it as a human race.
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  SPEAKER_01: And that is why our world looks the way it does.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's why 5 million men killed themselves in the past decade.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's why men, human men, are the most dangerous animal on the planet.
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  That's why men kill each other and kill children and kill women
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  and rape and torture people.
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  SPEAKER_01: Because we have forgotten,
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  SPEAKER_01: we have diverged tremendously,
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  SPEAKER_01: immensely,
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  SPEAKER_01: from the direct remembrance of the love that we truly are.
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  SPEAKER_01: And in your heart, you want to do something about that, brother.
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  SPEAKER_01: You want to remember it.
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  SPEAKER_01: You want to remember it, and you want to remind others.
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  SPEAKER_01: You want to live it.
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  SPEAKER_01: You want to embody the change that you want to see.
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  SPEAKER_01: You want to be on a mission.
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  You want to penetrate this world like a meteorite of love,
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  of grace,
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  of truth,
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  of honesty.
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  SPEAKER_01: Don't you?
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  SPEAKER_01: Search within yourself.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm definitely not just telling you to
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  SPEAKER_01: Take what I'm giving you here and just adopt it as a new belief system.
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  SPEAKER_01: You have to find this out for yourself.
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  SPEAKER_01: No one can find it out for you.
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  SPEAKER_01: But maybe something here invites you to look.
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  SPEAKER_01: Look in your heart of hearts.
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  SPEAKER_01: See what's really there.
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  See what kind of man you truly are and truly want to be on this
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  earth and then be it.
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  SPEAKER_01: Do it.
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  SPEAKER_01: All the way through.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's a never-ending journey.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm far from perfect.
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  SPEAKER_01: We're all learning.
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  SPEAKER_01: We're all cubs on our hands and knees in a deep sense.
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  SPEAKER_01: But you commit to the path.
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  SPEAKER_01: You walk the path.
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  SPEAKER_01: You take steps.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's an ever-deepening journey.
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  SPEAKER_01: But you do it.
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  SPEAKER_01: You lean in.
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  SPEAKER_01: You have courage.
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  SPEAKER_01: You keep the faith.
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  Keep the flame of faith alive like your life and all the lives
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  depend on it.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's what men need on earth at this time.
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  SPEAKER_01: They need true purpose.
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  True purpose sourced from direct felt connection to the heart
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  of hearts and true
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  SPEAKER_01: care for this earth.
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  true care for every man woman and child animal and plant
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  sentient creature on this
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  earth and in all worlds the Bodhisattva principle sentient
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  beings are innumerable I
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  SPEAKER_01: will not stop till they are all liberated
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  SPEAKER_01: I will not stop until all beings come home and remember love.
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  SPEAKER_01: Who are you and who do you want to be in your heart?
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  SPEAKER_00: Who are you, brother?
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  SPEAKER_00: Who are you?
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  SPEAKER_00: I love you.
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  SPEAKER_00: God bless.