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You Must Do This Daily to Attract Success: Take Action Now · Motivation Mindset Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Consider your circumstances. Start small. Have you taken full advantage
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  Speaker 1: of the opportunities offered to you? Are you working hard
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  Speaker 1: on your career or even your job, or are you
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  Speaker 1: letting bitterness and resentment hold you back and drag you down.
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  Speaker 1: Have you made peace with your brother? Are you treating
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  Speaker 1: your spouse and your children with dignity and respect? Do
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  Speaker 1: you have habits that are destroying your health and well being?
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  Speaker 1: Are you truly shouldering your responsibilities? Have you said what
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  Speaker 1: you need to say to your friends and family members.
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  Speaker 1: Are there things that you could do that you know
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  Speaker 1: you could do that would make things around you better?
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  Speaker 1: Have you cleaned up your life? If the answer is no,
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  Speaker 1: here's something to try. Start to stop doing what you
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  Speaker 1: know to be wrong. Start stopping today. Don't waste time
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  Speaker 1: questioning how you know that what you're doing is wrong
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  Speaker 1: if you are certain that it is inopportune, Questioning can
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  Speaker 1: confuse without enlightening, as well as deflecting you from action.
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  Speaker 1: You can know that something is wrong or right without
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  Speaker 1: knowing why. Your entire being can tell you something that
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  Speaker 1: you can neither explain nor articulate. Every person is too
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  Speaker 1: complex to know themselves completely, and we all contain wisdom
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  Speaker 1: that we cannot comprehend. So simply stop when you apprehend,
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  Speaker 1: however dimly, that you should stop. Stop acting in that
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  Speaker 1: particular despicable manner. Stop saying those things that make you
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  Speaker 1: weak and ashamed, Say only those things that make you strong.
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  Speaker 1: Do only those things that you could speak of with honor.
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  Speaker 1: You can use your own standards of judgment. You can
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  Speaker 1: rely on yourself for guidance. You don't have to adhere
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  Speaker 1: to some external, arbitrary code of behavior. Although you should
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  Speaker 1: not overlook the guidelines of your culture. Life is short
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  Speaker 1: and you don't have time to figure everything out on
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  Speaker 1: your own. The wisdom of the past was hard earned,
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  Speaker 1: and your dead ancestors may have something useful to tell you.
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  Speaker 1: Don't blame capitalism, the radical left, or the iniquity of
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  Speaker 1: your enemies. Don't reorganize the state until you have ordered
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  Speaker 1: your own experience. Have some humility. If you cannot bring
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  Speaker 1: peace to your household, how dare you try to rule
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  Speaker 1: a city. Let your own soul guide you. Watch what
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  Speaker 1: happens over the days and weeks when you are at work.
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  Speaker 1: You will begin to say what you really think. You
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  Speaker 1: will start to tell your wife or your husband, or
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  Speaker 1: your children, or your parents what you really want and need.
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  Speaker 1: When you know that you have left something undone, you
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  Speaker 1: will act to correct the omission. Your head will start
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  Speaker 1: to clear up as you stop filling it with lies.
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  Speaker 1: Your experience will improve as you stop distorting it with
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  Speaker 1: inauthentic action. You will then begin to discover new, more
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  Speaker 1: subtle things that you are doing wrong. Stop doing those two.
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  Speaker 1: After some months and years of diligent effort, your life
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  Speaker 1: will become simpler and less complicated. Your judgment will improve,
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  Speaker 1: You will untangle your past. You will become stronger and
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  Speaker 1: less bitter. You will move more confidently into the future.
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  Speaker 1: You will stop making your life unnecessarily difficult. You will
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  Speaker 1: then be left with the inevitable, bare tragedies of life,
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  Speaker 1: but they will no longer be compounded with bitterness and deceit.
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  Speaker 1: Perhaps you will discover that you are now less corrupt. Soul,
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  Speaker 1: much stronger than it might otherwise have been, is now
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  Speaker 1: able to bear those remaining necessary, minimal inescapable tragedies. Perhaps
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  Speaker 1: you will even learn to encounter them so that they
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  Speaker 1: stay tragic, merely tragic, instead of degenerating into outright hellishness.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe your anxiety and hopelessness, and resentment and anger. However
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  Speaker 1: murderous initially will receive. Perhaps your uncorrupted soul will then
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  Speaker 1: see its existence as a genuine good, as something to celebrate,
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  Speaker 1: even in the face of your own vulnerability. Perhaps you
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  Speaker 1: will become an ever more powerful force for peace and
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  Speaker 1: whatever is good. Perhaps you will then see that if
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  Speaker 1: all people did this in their own lives, the world
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  Speaker 1: might stop being an evil place. After that, with continued effort,
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  Speaker 1: perhaps it could even stop being a tragic place. Who
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  Speaker 1: knows what existence might be like if we all decided
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  Speaker 1: to strive for the best. Who knows what eternal heavens
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  Speaker 1: might be established by our spirits purified by truth aiming
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  Speaker 1: skyward right here on the fallen earth. Set your house
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  Speaker 1: in perfect order. Before you criticize the world, pay attention.
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  Speaker 1: Focus on your surroundings, physical and psychological. Notice something that
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  Speaker 1: bothers you, that concerns you, that will not let you be,
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  Speaker 1: which you could fix, that you would fix. You can
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  Speaker 1: find such somethings by asking yourself, as if you genuinely
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  Speaker 1: want to know, three questions. What is it that is
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  Speaker 1: bothering me? Is that something I could fix? And would
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  Speaker 1: I actually be willing to fix it. If you find
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  Speaker 1: that the answer is no to any or all of
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  Speaker 1: the questions, then look, swear, aim lower, search until you
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  Speaker 1: find something that bothers you that you could fix, that
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  Speaker 1: you would fix, and then fix it. That might be
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  Speaker 1: enough for the day. Maybe there is a stack of
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  Speaker 1: paper on your desk and you have been avoiding it.
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  Speaker 1: You won't even really look at it when you walk
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  Speaker 1: into your room. There are terrible things lurking there, tax
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  Speaker 1: forms and bills and letters from people wanting things you
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  Speaker 1: aren't sure you can deliver it. Notice your fear, and
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  Speaker 1: have some sympathy for it. Maybe there are snakes in
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  Speaker 1: that pile of paper. Maybe you'll get bitten. Maybe there
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  Speaker 1: are even hydras lurking there. You'll cut off one head
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  Speaker 1: and seven more will grow. How could you possibly cope
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  Speaker 1: with that? You could ask yourself, is there anything at
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  Speaker 1: all that I might be willing to do about that
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  Speaker 1: pile of paper? Would I look maybe at one part
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  Speaker 1: of it for twenty minutes. Maybe the answer will be no,
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  Speaker 1: But you might look for ten, or even for five,
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  Speaker 1: and if not that for one, start there. You will
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  Speaker 1: soon find that the entire pile shrinks in significance merely
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  Speaker 1: because you have looked at part of it, and you'll
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  Speaker 1: find that the whole thing is made of parts. What
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  Speaker 1: if you allowed yourself a glass of wine with dinner,
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  Speaker 1: or curled up on the sofa and read or watched
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  Speaker 1: a stupid movie as a reward. What if you instructed
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  Speaker 1: your wife or your husband to say good job after
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  Speaker 1: you fixed whatever you fixed? Would that motivate you? The
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  Speaker 1: people from whom thanks you want might not be very
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  Speaker 1: proficient in offering it to begin with, but that shouldn't
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  Speaker 1: stop you. People can learn even if they are very
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  Speaker 1: unskilled at the beginning. Ask yourself what you would require
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  Speaker 1: to be motivated to undertake the job honestly and listen
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  Speaker 1: to the answer. Don't tell yourself, I shouldn't need to
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  Speaker 1: do that to motivate myself. What do you know about yourself?
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  Speaker 1: You are, on the one hand, the most complex thing
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  Speaker 1: in the entire universe, and on the other someone who
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  Speaker 1: can't even set the clock on your microwave. Don't overestimate
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  Speaker 1: your self knowledge. Let the tasks for the day announce
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  Speaker 1: themselves for your contemplation. Maybe you can do this in
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  Speaker 1: the morning, as you sit on the edge of your bed,
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  Speaker 1: maybe you can try the night before, when you are
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  Speaker 1: preparing to sleep, ask yourself for a voluntary contribution. If
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  Speaker 1: you ask nicely and listen carefully, and don't try any treachery,
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  Speaker 1: you might be offered one. Do this every day for
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  Speaker 1: a while, then do it for the rest of your life.
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  Speaker 1: Soon you will find yourself in a different situation. Now
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  Speaker 1: you will be asking yourself habitually, what could I do
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  Speaker 1: that I would do to make life a little better.
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  Speaker 1: You are not dictating to yourself what better must be.
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  Speaker 1: You are not being a totalitarian or a utopian, even
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  Speaker 1: to yourself, because you have learned from the Nazis and
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  Speaker 1: the Soviets and the Maoists, and from your own experience,
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  Speaker 1: that being a totalitarian is a bad thing. Aim I,
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  Speaker 1: set your sights on the betterment of being. Align yourself
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  Speaker 1: in your soul with truth and the highest good. There
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  Speaker 1: is habitable order to establish and beauty to bring into existence.
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  Speaker 1: There is evil to overcome, suffering to ameliorate, in yourself
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  Speaker 1: to better. It is this, in my reading, that is
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  Speaker 1: the culminating ethic of the Canon of the West. It
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  Speaker 1: is this, furthermore, that is communicated by those eternally confusing
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  Speaker 1: glowing stanzas from Christ's Sermon on the Mount, the essence
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  Speaker 1: in some sense of the wisdom of the New Testament.
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  Speaker 1: This is the attempt of the spirit of mankind to
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  Speaker 1: transform the understanding of ethics from the initial necessary thou
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  Speaker 1: shalt not of the child and the ten Commandments into
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  Speaker 1: the fully articulated positive vision of the true individual. This
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  Speaker 1: is the expression not merely of admirable self control and
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  Speaker 1: self mastery, but of the fundamental desire to set the
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  Speaker 1: world right. This is not the cessation of sin, but
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  Speaker 1: sin's opposite good itself. The Sermon on the Mount outlines
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  Speaker 1: the true nature of man and the proper aim of mankind.
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  Speaker 1: Concentrate on the day so that you can live in
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  Speaker 1: the present and attend completely and properly to what is
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  Speaker 1: right in front of you. But do that only after
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  Speaker 1: you have decided to let what is within shine forth
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  Speaker 1: so that it can justify being and illuminate the world.
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  Speaker 1: Do that only after you have determined to sacrifice whatever
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  Speaker 1: it is that must be sacrificed, so that you can
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  Speaker 1: pursue the highest good. Realization is dawning. Instead of playing
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  Speaker 1: the tyrant, therefore you are paying attention. You are telling
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  Speaker 1: the truth. Instead of manipulating the world, you are negotiating,
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  Speaker 1: instead of playing the martyr or the tyrant. You no
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  Speaker 1: longer have to be envious because you no longer know
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  Speaker 1: that someone else truly has it better. You no longer
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  Speaker 1: have to be frustrated because you have learned to aim
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  Speaker 1: low and to be patient. You are discovering who you are,
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  Speaker 1: and what you want and what you are willing to do.
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  Speaker 1: You are finding that the solutions to your particular problems
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  Speaker 1: have to be tailored to you personally and precisely. You
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  Speaker 1: are less concerned with the actions of other people because
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  Speaker 1: you have plenty to do yourself. Attend to the day,
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  Speaker 1: but aim at the highest good. Now your trajectory is heavenward.
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  Speaker 1: That makes you hopeful. Even a man on a sinking
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  Speaker 1: ship can be happy when he clambers aboard a lifeboat,
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  Speaker 1: and who knows where he might go in the future.
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  Speaker 1: To journey happily may well be better than to arrive successfully.
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  Speaker 1: Ask and ye shall receive. Knock and the door will open.
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  Speaker 1: If you ask as if you want, and knock as
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  Speaker 1: if you want to enter, you may be offered the
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  Speaker 1: chance to improve your life a little, a lot completely,
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  Speaker 1: And with that improvement, some progress will be made in
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  Speaker 1: being itself. Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not
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  Speaker 1: to who someone else is today.