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Recycle Your Life: Transform Your Past into Purpose | Thursday Night Sermon | Eye Opener Society Ministry · Eye Opener Society

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Okay, hello everyone. Welcome to Eye Opener Society Ministry.
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Welcome to our live Thursday night sermon. And tonight it's going to be fun.
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My name is Gary Dean. I'm the founding member of Eye Opener Society.
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We're going to be joined tonight by our co-creator,
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Lizzie, Our cosmic fairy princess And then,
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We have another special treat for you We're also going to be joined by our newest
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minister Halos Phoenix And we're pretty excited about that Because I really
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feel Halos Always has something great to say,
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And she says it very beautifully So I hope everybody stays,
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Tuned to everything And enjoy the sermon Everything we do here Is going to be inspiring Uplifting,
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And it matters to us,
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That you, the audience Get involved,
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Don't forget we do this every Saturday night 7pm Eastern Standard Time live
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And then we put the recording up immediately And then we're also going to try
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and work on tonight Getting you an after show as well So with all of that said.
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I was sitting trying to come up with something for tonight And I had a few ideas
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And I kind of scratched it off,
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And I don't like to continuously talk about the same thing, but in the past
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couple of weeks, what's been on my mind,
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is the fact of life and how we are living it and how we are enjoying it.
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This is really important to me because as I've looked back on my life and my
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timeline, there's a lot of things I've gone through.
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And now I'm here in the moment that matters Which is the present moment And
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it took a lot for me to get here There's been so many changes along the way,
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What about yours? What's your changes? What have you done throughout your life.
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I'm very happy to say that I've enjoyed my life.
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There's definitely have been some pitfalls, you know, things happen.
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But I will say that with everything that has happened in the past,
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it helped me to develop into the person that I am today, right now,
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right here in this moment.
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So I want to talk to you, the audience, everyone listening, that we are so thrilled
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to help you try and see things from a different way.
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I do apologize if I'm rambling again. I think Lizzie says she wrote hers down.
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I might have to start doing that myself.
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But here's the most important thing. Sometimes we have to sit with our emotions.
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We have to sit with the moment that we're in.
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We have to embrace it and we have to learn the lessons from it.
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What we need to do is not so much renew ourselves, but recycle ourselves.
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And here's a good example of that.
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Going back when I left New York City and I was throwing down Southern Virginia
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and it was kind of a culture shock to me.
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I was going through a phase in my life where I was constantly thinking about
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the past Back in my high school days, I wanted to bring it back.
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And I always thought the present moment is what matters.
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Living in the past is not very good.
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And I was bringing myself almost a hyperventilation because I was so upset that
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those days were gone and over and I was in this new environment.
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It took me a while, a few cycles to sit with that and finally learn and understand,
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that that past was fantastic. I loved it.
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While it's great to say, hey, I want to go back to those days,
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I want to go back to that time, recycle and become renewed and rejuvenate everything
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that is in your present moment.
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I've had great friends back then, fantastic friends.
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We no longer communicate, but I renewed.
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I now have new friends, people whom I trust, wonderful friends.
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Recently, I made friends with Halos Phoenix, who you'll be meeting tonight.
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I definitely have a great friend with Lizzie. Means the world to me.
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Right now, listening live, my great friend, Sarah. Wonderful,
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wonderful people. And that's how you renew.
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You might not have those old friends, but what matters now are the people that
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are around you right now.
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And the things I've done throughout my life, when I was with emergency medical
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services back in New York City, that type A personality that I have and the
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go-getting and the, you know, that helped me to develop,
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into who I am because I had to take that level of excitement and bring it down
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to where I am right now. I learned from it.
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I recycled myself. I recycled what I was into who I am right now.
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Everything that I've accomplished between work, personal things,
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goals, dreams, everyone out there has something that you really want, dreams and desires.
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What I do not like is when people, And again, I hate repeating myself.
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I hate repeating the topics. But really, those of you who are putting that block
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in front of you, putting that big wall in front of you, just saying,
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oh, I can't do it or life's too tough or it requires money or requires this,
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that is repeating over and over
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in your mind and you're manifesting the failure that is certain to come.
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You need to set your goals. You need to set yourself up so that you get to do
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and achieve what it is you want in your life.
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Now, today I was reminded of something that was told to me, and I'm sure everybody heard it.
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Even when there is the craziest storm going on and all the clouds and how dark
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it is, that does not mean the sun is not there.
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We just can't see it in the present moment.
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But if you embrace that storm and you find the beauty in that storm,
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the way that feels, the negative ions taken over in the air,
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the freshness of that air, the feeling of that rain, the power of nature,
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you're starting to see things positive.
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Then the sun starts to come back out and you're still in that positive state.
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Nothing should put you down.
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Yes, we go through times of sadness we go through times of despair bad things
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happen to good people bad things happen to bad people,
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it's a never-ending cycle it's how we sit with them it's how we learn from them
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that's what's going to make you,
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achieve your goals and bring you to the point where you want to be,
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and it's important that we keep bettering ourselves keep recycling ourselves.
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I don't care how old you are, how young you are. I don't care if you change
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your personality, change your clothes every single day and what you want to
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look like and how you want to be.
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It's in the moment that you're doing it is what really matters.
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Some people change careers after doing the same job for 35 years,
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and then they change into something else. And then you sit and you have this
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realization, I just recycled myself.
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I now am the same person I was But I've just been remade into something Because
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some people say Wow, maybe I should have done this job Instead of the other
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one That I've been doing for the last 35 years This will bring us.
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Happiness, achievements, goals And that's what I want for everyone out there
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I want you to start achieving your goals I want everyone out there to see the
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silver linings in the clouds.
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I want everyone to remember that even when the clouds are out,
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doesn't mean the sun is not there.
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Now, I don't want to talk about the chemtrails that are hiding the sun and everything
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else. That's for a whole nother podcast, a whole nother show.
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But everyone, please enjoy life.
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Keep smiling, even struggling through the tough times. Lean on the people that matter to you the most.
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My name is Gary Dean. I appreciate everybody joining us.
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I'm going to bring aboard our favorite, our cosmic fairy princess,
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Lizzie. Let's bring her in.
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All right, Lizzie, you have the spotlight. It's all you.
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Okay, thank you very much. And I thank you very much for sharing your thoughts.
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I did write mine today, but no promise that I'm going to write mine next time.
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Sometimes it is just fun to kind of speak straight from the heart,
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but today I wanted to be a little bit more specific.
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I find that sometimes the most magical time for me is the time in which I can't
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write or explain myself.
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It's like my brain is a swirling pool of definitions, ideas,
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conspiracy theories, goals, new facts, old facts, added data of other people's
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perceptions, and the feelings that each of these leave in my body.
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If I attach to one, I'll make sense of it, but I find that sense made in this
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phase is never the most sensical in the long run.
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I used to define this feeling as writer's block, as still learning, and sometimes it is, but,
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I'm also in a state of redefining something that I don't even yet know how to
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speak, and for me, I find it most beneficial to not rush this process,
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even when the time it takes ends up being inconvenient.
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The relationship that you have to words builds the experience around you,
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and how you define a word or concept is how it engages with you.
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And the difference in how two people relate to something can be the difference
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between a solution and a compromise.
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Next time you're triggered by a word someone you care about says,
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try googling the definition together and see if you both were actually using
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the word in the same way, because often we aren't.
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When we're young, we have definitions kind of rapid-fired at us,
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sometimes from the dictionary in school and sometimes just from the people around
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us as they explain a mystery word that they came up in a movie or book.
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And who knows actually if they remembered that definition correctly,
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but you can still take it on and use that word forevermore in that way.
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As time goes on, our memory changes and sometimes the definitions we have for
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a word evolves and blends with other words.
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And we don't even notice because apparently when the right side of your brain,
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which is your fact checker, doesn't know something, your left side just makes
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it up, your storyteller. It'll look it up as a fact.
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But okay, so back to the relationship to the word itself.
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Healing, for example. If you define this as restoration to its original form,
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or is it the removal of damage? Is it the expansion of health?
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Is it the removal of discomfort or disease?
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Is it moving into an environment and conditions that sustains you.
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Discomfort. Something to move away from. Something to push through. Something to allow.
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A message. A punishment. Something to overcome. Something to fix.
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An invitation to expand.
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What you define it as in that moment is what your energy system will orient around.
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Healing as restoration of what is lost or broken focuses around returning to what once was.
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Healing as moving into an environment or condition that sustains or supports
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you implies moving forward.
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The distinction is small, but it can be the difference between trying to reconnect
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to your inner child as a way to get back what was lost or a way to gain what
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hasn't yet been picked up.
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One wraps reality around a wound. Another wraps reality around a new idea.
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And these are completely different energy signatures and will produce entirely different results.
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And this is true only because I said so. Does this all make sense yet?
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What's important is which is better in the moment for you.
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Knowing what you are actually trying to do can make it possible for you to do it.
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Sometimes it simply takes the time to really think out what you think,
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what you expect, and what you know, and maybe give space for those to change a little.
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Defining something before you gave it space to show you what it wants to be
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limits it by what you already, quote, know, not what you are learning.
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Sometimes we ask for these big life-changing quantum jumps, but then we refuse
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the redefinition it requires.
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The thing is, is if you thought like the version of you that you are aiming
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to become, you'd already be there and live that life. You already like do it,
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right? You wouldn't even be thinking about it.
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The action, the ideas, the world all comes from how you defined it before you even built it.
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It shifts as you shift the relationship to it, but sometimes the entire thing
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needs to be rebuilt. And sometimes that requires you to take the time to swim in the possibility.
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It actually has no defined definition except the one that serves you best.
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So what's going to serve you best?
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Money is earned. Money is a form of resource and can be exchanged.
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Money is security. Money is one form of abundance. Money isn't real. Money is a frequency.
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Money is a result of my hard work. Money is a result of my access to abundance.
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Doesn't matter. How did it respond to your body? What did it make you feel?
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Something I have long been frustrated with is the way that I would have to circle
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back to the same topic, seemingly healing a new layer.
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Which is accurate, but also what I was doing was redefining something as I had more information.
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I was rewriting the story. You know, the story that is only factual because
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that is how the definitions in your soul experienced it.
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As I changed the definition today, I changed the quantum tide to the experience
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of the past and what flavor comes in from the future.
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And this will ripple out to redefine a lot of things in your life if you allow
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space for it to be everything, nothingness for a minute.
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There's a song that I find a lot of hidden meaning in it. It's called Heaven's
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Gate by Amelia Farron, and I may slightly be obsessed with this song for the last little while.
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She says in it, one of the things is, I didn't realize nettle stung and apples weren't all white.
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And this made me pause because nettle is used for protection,
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which is something super important for every new witch or energetically minded
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person to learn as a very vital step moving forward in the world.
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But also, eventually, many people unfold to a place where the need to protect
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ends up feeling a little bit more like self-sabotage than a necessary action.
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When safety becomes assumed, instead of demanded, protection limits what comes
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in, and only good was coming in, So sometimes maybe nettles do sting.
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And apples are about healing and white being pure or whole. Apples aren't all
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white because not all wisdom brings wholeness to you.
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And only you know what is pure or whole for your soul.
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As a definition of changes of a word, an event, a person, an idea,
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a hope, the relation to it changes, the energy fueling it changes,
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the inspired action and the glimmered emotions change.
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What can be overwhelming can also be an abundance of options.
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What can be disappointing can actually be revealing or empowering.
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What hurts can be an invitation to move or an invitation to let go or an invitation
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to invite another into your understanding.
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What blocks can be an invitation to pause and redefine can also be a redirection,
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and it can also be an Easter egg you were hoping to find.
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There's no perfect definition or set of rules to live by.
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There's just how you are defining something, how you are engaging with something,
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and if that is working for you or not.
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Back to comparing definitions on Google when you're in a moment of tension with a person.
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It can also be really helpful to ask questions that have a little less solid definitions.
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What does a good person look like? What does love feel like?
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What does trust taste like? What does space function like?
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What does rest mean to you? Professionalism, consideration, support?
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Like write it down together. Really, really ramble about it.
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You might be surprised how many, quote, shadows exist in your definitions,
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even though you already, quote, healed them.
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When you write faster, then your spiritual ego can retranslate it.
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You may be surprised how many obvious solutions appear when you understand the
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rules the other person is operating under, when you understand the rules that
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you are operating under.
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Maybe the tension doesn't have to be a problem. Maybe it can be an awareness
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of where your definitions and rules are creating friction in how your realities
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are operating with each other.
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And usually you both hold important pieces to what the most wholesome,
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coherent, and enjoyable answer to the both of you is.
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It's rarely what was decided, it's what you decided it to be,
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and how well they intermingle with all that's involved.
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When compromise means we both lose a little, you always lose.
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And when compromise means we both felt understood, supported,
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and got what we needed, you always win.
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Sometimes our definitions is the best we're going to come up with for now.
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It is what serves us best until it doesn't, until we know more.
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If you shame yourself for not, quote, getting it right the first time,
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then you just wrapped redefining things into shame. So there's a great place
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to start with your definitions.
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Redefine and tell your heart's content like seriously and swim in the void of
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everything nothingness and tell your heart's content like god damn it if your
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heart is not content inspired,
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and overjoyed redefine your definitions in life before you try rewriting your
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story or healing your past or moving forward or making new connections,
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your words create your reality but what they mean gives you the materials that
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you use it sets your intentions your expectations It gives it shape,
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gives it function, it gives it life.
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Thank you for listening to me today.
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Well, I got to tell you, I literally have chills from that one.
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Thank you so much, Lizzie. That was beautiful.
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And you gave me a new idea that I might start writing down my things because
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it really played out beautifully.
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Well, thank you again. So you're very welcome. So we're going to put Lizzie
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back into the green room, and now I want to tell everybody that...
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I don't know if I'm on camera.
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I want everybody to know that we have another minister.
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I know we've had Elaine on here, but we also have Halos Phoenix.
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And Halos, I know, is going to give us another wonderful, beautiful,
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chilling goosebump kind of sermon.
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I know I'm expecting a lot from her, but I'm not putting the pressure on her.
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I want everybody to welcome on board Halos Phoenix. Let's bring her in.
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And Halos, the spotlight is all on you.
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Awesome. Thank you for having me here today. Okay.
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Yeah, you guys gave great sermons.
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Very lovely to listen to. And today what's been coming through for me is.
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Really, I think the last time that we had our podcast, we kind of talked about
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human emotions and like just giving respect to the darkness as beings of light
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that we typically associate with being in spirituality.
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And what I notice very often kind of goes along with what Gary your sermon was about victim mentality,
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and it's interesting because I really think the darkness is meant to push us
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forward it's meant to propel us into something better and,
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a lot of times though people get so stuck in it I notice people talking about
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all the issues in the world like oh there's this issue and there's this issue
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and I can't be happy because these people over here are suffering and the government's
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lying to us and they're putting poison in our food.
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I'm like, okay, yeah, that's great that you're aware of that,
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but what are you doing with that information? Because continuing to focus on
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something isn't going to change it.
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There needs to be action in order to create that change.
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And so what came to me was the law of dharma.
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And the law of dharma is.
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It is a Buddhist belief that when you are in alignment with your soul's purpose,
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you are acting in dharma.
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And why it's so important is because when you are in alignment with your dharma,
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then you are living the life that is going to create a positive change in the world.
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And what this means is that everyone comes here for a specific reason.
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And I think that the reason people are in victim mentality to begin with is
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because they're unaware of the power that we have.
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And everyone has a certain amount of power, not even a certain amount of power,
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limitless amounts of power because we are connected to source. We are source.
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And in order to come to this.
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Action of living in dharma, we have to realize that there are these four levels of consciousness.
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The first one, the lowest one, being victim mentality, which is saying,
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I can't do anything, everything's happening to me, and I have no power.
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And the one above that is when you feel like you have to control everything,
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when you won't allow help from others, when you feel like you have to override all this external.
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Assistance because you feel that you have to do it on your own the one above that is co-creation so
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when you're in co-creation with the universe which is what a lot of people talk
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about it's a great thing it's a beautiful thing and we do need to be in co-creation
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with the universe but then they're the so the one above that which is allowing
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the universe to happen through you and so you're not trying to
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necessarily create anything or do anything you're in a simple state of being.
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You're in the state of being in alignment with your soul's purpose,
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with your dharma, through coming to know yourself.
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And what that means is that you are taking the time every day,
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or maybe it's not every day, but you're just taking a significant amount of
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time to get to know yourself.
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And whether that's five minutes in the morning of meditation and simply tuning
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in with yourself and with your body,
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then you are able to move past these lower states of consciousness of feeling
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like things are happening to you or feeling like you have to control everything
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or do everything and then you're coming to this heightened state of
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oh that's not who I am and you can observe these thoughts from a different perspective
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and then reshape them to then help you create the reality that we're all here
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to create because yes there are so many things that are terrible in the world
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but what we do about that is what's going to create the reality that needs to
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come into to any existence.
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With that being said,
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I've just found it to be so important for me to just like really get to know myself.
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And I think it's funny because, you know, a couple of years ago,
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I would not ever think that I am where I am.
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I'm in school for child development and wanting to help all these people.
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And I remember my therapist saying, you should be a therapist.
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I was like, that sounds terrible. I will never do that. I don't want to help
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people. I can barely help myself.
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And now I'm like, oh my gosh, that's what I want to do. And I really had to move past those,
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layers of shame and victim mentality and coming into my true power and seeing
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that I can do what I want to do.
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And because I know myself, I know what I want to do.
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And it can be very difficult to know yourself when you're constantly being told
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who you are at a very young age.
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We're programmed to believe all of these things about ourselves that aren't
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true so it's very important to come to know yourself and just spend time with
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yourself observing your thoughts get um get acquainted with self-awareness and,
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just observing everything that you tell yourself that you are and realizing
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what you can let go of and then what you can bring in who are you really and
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what change are you here to make,
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okay that is my sermon thank you so much for listening.
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Halos, we really appreciate it. Thank you so much. That too was so beautiful.
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I love how you put those words together. Lizzie as well.
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I want to thank Halos. I want to thank Lizzie.
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And I certainly want to thank everybody that tuned in, watched us live.
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It's so amazing to see everybody.
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Don't forget, this is every Thursday night Our ministry, Eye Opener Society
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