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The Power of Rest: Unlocking Creativity, Clarity & Spiritual Growth | Eye Opener Society Update · Eye Opener Society

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  Hey everyone, welcome back to Eye Opener Society.
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  My name is Gary Dean and Lizzie has the day off today. So I'm just doing this, uh,
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  episode solo, and I wanted to express my absolute appreciation to everybody
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  that's been standing by waiting for us to gather everything and put everything together,
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  whether it be through this show or through the church.
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  I know people probably have millions of questions,
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  but we are extremely excited
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  for everything that is happening and moving forward we have our new website
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  and that link is going to be down the synopsis it's a little bit of a longer
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  website that's why i don't really recall it uh but it's through wix and i want
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  to give wix a big shout out because.
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  It's amazing how i could put together an entire website with everything that
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  i need in it for absolutely free.
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  So I enjoyed building the site and it's a work in progress.
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  It always will be as the church grows, so will the website.
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  So if you're looking at it and you're probably thinking, yeah,
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  it's missing like the staff pages,
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  the about pages and stuff like that, it's going to be built and it takes some
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  time because there's a lot of work that goes on, you know, with these things,
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  But it is there and I hope everybody uses it.
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  We're going to put up any events that come up or any information,
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  anything that changes, all of our social media, all of our friends and associates.
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  Again, that'll all start to come together and we'll put it all together on that website.
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  As it builds, you will see us build along with it.
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  And I hope everybody can be a part of this in some way. That's one of our biggest goals.
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  And we'll discuss that once things are back on track. So again, in Lizzie's absence.
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  We've been busy with like our own lives on top of the church and this show.
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  And because of that, it's just, we're looking for space and not space in a physical
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  sense, but space in a mental way.
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  See, Lizzie taught me that when we hit the brakes and we pause,
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  that pause is when things expand.
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  And I think this is a valuable lesson that we should
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  all learn we could run ourselves
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  ragged every single day and we try to do everything which is great it's great
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  to have that sort of motivation where we just move forward and we want to get
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  things done and we want to get them done right and we pour our hearts our souls
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  and our energies into these things that's fantastic.
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  But you see when we do it all and we're trying
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  to get it done and if we have these type a personalities or or maybe we don't
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  and maybe we don't have that sort of aggression things can get kind of messy
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  because we're tripping over ourselves trying to do things completely right but
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  we're doing them either a too fast or we're trying to do too much all at once,
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  And so Lizzie had taught me You know When we take these breaks And we take these
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  moments And we take these moments,
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  that creates a brand new space.
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  The space opens up more because we don't have the, you know,
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  the conflict of doing all of these things.
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  So when we stop and we take a moment and we remove all the things that we were
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  trying to get done, now it's kind of like a clean slate and things start to open up.
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  They open up more creatively and it allows your mind to start saying,
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  okay, well, now I could start doing something else.
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  Maybe this is a better idea.
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  And all of that rest that you're taking builds this creativity.
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  And then we could move forward when we're ready and take these newfound thoughts
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  and ideas and starting to apply them with the things that we're trying to get done.
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  While we're in this space of relaxation, everything opens up.
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  It becomes a wide open field.
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  And that wide open field encompasses us and the direction that we want to go in.
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  And it's wild because when Lizzie was explaining this, I was able to actually
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  take that moment and I meditated and I said, okay, I'm not going to worry about
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  the church. I'm not going to worry about the show. I'm just going to be for a while.
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  And then there was a lot more clarity and focus because I removed those thoughts
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  that were occupying all of my time.
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  And as important as they are And I don't want to forget them,
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  It still worked out beautifully because I was able to start seeing new things.
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  And I had new ideas that came in.
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  And creating the website was one of them. And I said, that's a great thing I
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  need to do. And I sat down and I started to do that.
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  And it took away from all the other things that I was doing.
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  But it gave me more creative control for doing all the stuff that I'm doing.
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  It's easy. I mean, it's a little bit harder to explain sometimes,
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  but honestly, if you take all of the chaos that's going on,
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  right, because you want to get something done and you're trying to get it moving
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  forward, sometimes it's not going to get forward because you're pushing it too hard,
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  and things could collapse.
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  It's kind of like a shopping cart that's just so overflowed because you got
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  everything in it and you're pushing it fast and all the stuff that you put into
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  it is starting to fall out and it's going all over the place and you got to
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  stop and pick it up and redo it.
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  The moment you stop and you just put that shopping cart off to the side and
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  you just start looking around at all the other things that are in the grocery store,
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  you start to say, hey,
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  this is another direction I want to go in.
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  Oh, I like this brand better than this brand.
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  That's the concept of what goes on when you take that moment to stop and rest.
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  You also start to pick up on things that you might have forgotten about because
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  you've been so overwhelmed thinking about doing the things you wanted to do.
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  And that is why we need to rest.
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  Rest is a creative space.
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  And your creative space will grow the longer that you rest.
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  There's never a time limit, honestly. If you feel you need to get back because
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  you had enough rest and you found new creativity, it's great. you can move on.
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  But if you haven't found it and you feel, hey, I'm going to take a whole year
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  off, take a year off, it's fine.
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  Rest is wonderful.
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  Sleep as well. You sleep on things, you dream about things.
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  And if you're too busy worrying about what you got going on,
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  those dreams then become complex.
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  They become more anxiety-driven rather than just creative dreams.
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  So, let's all remember that we have goals that we want to set.
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  We want to do things right, but we're not always able to do them right,
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  or they don't come out the way that we planned them to because we just moved way too fast.
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  So what we need really in the
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  long run is to have these
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  moments where we can stop kind of
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  smell the roses you know i like to smell the wide open fields because there's
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  so much more energy and you get so much more excitement and you start to build
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  up a new found excitement to move forward.
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  But you're moving forward in this big empty field and you start planting more
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  seeds and more flowers and new trees.
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  And that starts to expand yourself, expands your mind, that expands your ideas,
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  your thoughts, and it'll guide you throughout your future.
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  Because sometimes during that rest period, you might actually change to a new direction.
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  You might want to try something else rather than the direction you were going
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  in because you have these moments of clarity and you have these moments where
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  you see things from a period of rest rather than a period of work.
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  These are the things that Lizzie
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  explained to me, and I just took it and I expanded it a little bit more.
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  And the fact that these things actually do work, that's what I wanted to express to you.
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  Because you may be in that moment where you are really, you know,
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  so wound up tight because you're trying to get all these things done.
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  And all of these things that you're thinking about are probably beautiful.
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  But if we're painting too fast and the brush strokes start to,
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  you know, bleed or you put too much paint on there and it starts to drip,
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  that's because you're rushing.
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  That's because you're trying to get things, you know, done too fast.
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  Stop and just look at the canvas. Study what you already have there. And just wait.
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  Don't make it a priority now to move forward and keep painting over that.
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  What you're doing is taking a break, resting, and you're going to look at that painting.
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  And you're going to see things that you haven't noticed before.
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  And you're going to see the creativity that you have. And then you're saying,
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  I might want to add this color. or this color contrasts better with that,
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  or this matches the mood much better.
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  And then you start to build from there. Once you get out of that break period
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  and you start moving forward, you're moving forward at a slower pace,
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  but you have so many more brilliant ideas that are going on.
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  And that, that is the power of creativity.
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  That is the power of the human mind when we can actually stop,
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  live in a moment, and rest.
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  So my dear friends, my dear audience, everybody out there, it's time for you to rest as well.
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  And again, that rest could be a couple minutes. That rest could be a couple of years.
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  You do what feels right.
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  Before the new year, I had spoken about how I made some changes where I was
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  listening to myself more, listening more to my intuition.
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  And I was only going to do what felt right at the time.
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  And I have not strayed from that.
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  But I was reminded by a dear friend, Lizzie, that you do need to rest.
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  And maybe I wasn't listening to that. Maybe because my body was telling me and
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  my mind was telling me, yes, let's keep moving forward because I have so much
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  wonderful things and I want to get them done.
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  So, what that did was drown out the fact that I probably needed to take a break
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  for a little while so I can expand on everything that I got going on.
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  So, Lizzie, you have the day off, but I thank you so much for that.
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  That's great wisdom, and that's something that I'm going to always remember now.
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  And I'm hoping you, the audience, have a little takeaway with this.
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  And we could build on our own dreams, all of us, together.
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  That's the purpose. That's the purpose for us here at Eye Opener Society,
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  for the church, once it starts going and once you start coming into this church,
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  once it's ready and you start listening to us, the things we're going to teach
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  you, it's not about religion, it's about us.
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  And it's about how we can control our destinies, how we can see things in a
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  much different perspective, higher awakening.
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  We're very excited about this. But again, it's going to take some time because
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  we have some thoughts and ideas and I have some things in my own personal life
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  that need to be taken care of first as well.
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  And once those things are taken care of, I can move forward.
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  And one of the big things right now is just the legalities of the church.
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  It's very easy for me to form the LLC and all, but I want to make sure it's
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  done correctly because this is going to be a worldwide church.
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  I don't want it to be referenced just in one area where I live.
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  Lizzie lives, you know, I think like 3,000 miles away from me.
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  But that space in between is also the church, the space outside of that,
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  outside of the country, into other countries.
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  That's all the church. And it's all of us.
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  So, again, we're not going to limit ourselves to just one area.
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  And that's what I'm looking into. And that's why I'm taking a break.
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  And I'm still working on everything. But it's going at a different pace.
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  And more ideas are coming forward. And speaking of other countries, listen,
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  for everybody else that's listening outside of the United States,
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  we welcome you and we thank you so much for tuning in because it's amazing when
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  we have an audience that's so diverse.
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  That's wonderful. That diversity is wonderful.
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  Really brings in so much more ideas and understanding of people in life.
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  And we appreciate you here at Eye Opener Society. We appreciate everybody that
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  tunes in, but we certainly appreciate everybody that's listening from other countries.
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  And we're going to, you know, give you something real soon to be a part of.
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  And you're not going to listen just to us. You're going to listen to others
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  and you're going to hear from your own self too. I want to hear about everybody.
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  And that's going to be the purpose of this church that we are starting.
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  So we're looking forward to it. And I can't thank everybody enough for tuning in.
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  Everybody that does tune in,
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  Okay, like I said in the synopsis, I'm going to have the brand new website,
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  spread that around, don't forget too, we got a Facebook page as well,
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  You'll find her on TikTok as well. I'll have that all down in the synopsis.
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  We're also on YouTube, but the other thing, BitChute.
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  And again, those of you that are tuning in on BitChute, I can't thank you enough.
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  We've got so many more listens on BitChute than we got on any other platform,
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  and that's amazing, and I thank you so much.
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  I want to thank everybody that tunes in, downloads, and listens.
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  We love you all here, and we will see you on the next episode and we'll have
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  Lizzie back and we could talk about so much more.
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  Don't forget about our Wednesday night guided meditation series as well and
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  my solo episodes that are also on Saturday mornings and hopefully Thursdays,
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  we're going to start getting some kind of sermon nights, but they're going to be fun.
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  They're not going to be like religious sermons where we're forcing things down your throat.
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  We're going to talk about some really cool things and we got some great episode
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  ideas. So stay tuned every week, every Monday. We'll see you soon.