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What Is Church? Redefining Faith, Source & Our Divine Power · Eye Opener Society

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Hello, everyone. Welcome to Eye Opener Society and welcome to a Thursday night sermon.
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We are very happy to be here with you and we're happy that we keep the consistency
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with these Thursday night lives because we keep getting better as time goes on with them.
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So as always, I'm going to start off and then after I'm done,
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we'll be joined by Lizzie and Lizzie will give her sermon And then we could
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wish you all a great night But before I go on with any of that We wanted to
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make the announcement that we have another new minister Who will be joining
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us on some future sermons Some future shows You may have already heard her,
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Halos Phoenix Wanted to give her a big shout out I want everyone to welcome
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her But she has recently been ordained with Eye Opener Society And we look forward
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to everything that she has to offer to us And she has some great and wonderful things as well.
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So I wanted to start off by saying, what's in a name?
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What's in a definition?
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We could take so many different words and we could transform them into whatever it is we want.
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At least here in the United States, we have the freedom of speech.
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And that includes believing what we believe in when it comes to a word.
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So when we take the word church...
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What exactly is that? What exactly are we saying with church?
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See, Merriam-Webster's dictionary states it's a building for public religious services.
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And then they say, especially Christian worship.
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Or it's a body or organization of religious believers or the clergy of a religious body.
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You could take any of those definitions and interchange them, whatever you like.
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But I could take what I learned a long time ago when I was under the whole Catholic
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religion and I was going to religious instruction.
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And the instructor, don't remember her name or anything like that.
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It was many, many years ago, but something stuck with me where she had asked, What is a church?
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And everybody said, oh, it's the building, it's the house of God and all that.
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But she had defined it differently. She says, if a bunch of people got together
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out in a park to talk about God,
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Is that a church? And I still remember that to this very day from childhood.
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It's just a group of people. We don't need a physical building over us.
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Church is a noun, is a building. But church could be defined as a group of people
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all discussing the same religious belief.
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Or, in eye-opener society's case, it could be a group of people all discussing religions on all terms,
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Spirituality on all terms As well as the metaphysical In all terms And then
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we have a ministry Now a ministry It's a form of service The work of a religious leader Or community,
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Active service Performed to express faith And help others encompass Both spiritual
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guidance Preaching And pastoral care And support I like that one.
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That one fits eye-opener society almost to a T.
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But if we combine those two words, church, ministry, and we use the word society,
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Are we changing anything?
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By legal standards, Eye Opener Society is a religious organization.
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When we throw in the tax man and we throw in government and all that,
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it gives certain definitions in order to fit a certain thing,
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in order for us to be established, blah, blah, blah.
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But here's the thing, the IRS cannot determine, nor can they establish a definition
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for the word church because that would go against all beliefs of freedom of
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speech as well as freedom of religion.
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So therefore, they cannot define it, nor will they.
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And that's good because when it comes to a church, we're not here for political beliefs.
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We're not here for government interference. We are here to perform what we perform.
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And in our case, we're gathering a group of people, a society that's just expressing peace,
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love, metaphysics, spirituality, and whatever else we wish to discuss because
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it is our church, it's your church as well, or your ministry,
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or your religious organization.
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You could give us whatever name you like. It's fine.
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Going on further, we define ourselves as a church And then we got to wonder
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about religion and what do we actually teach.
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And the thing is, we're not teaching any specific religion. We're a religious organization.
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Worship, when it comes to that, God is a source, all-encompassing.
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Those are three different definitions.
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You could use whatever you like, whatever you believe in.
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God, source, all-encompassing, universal consciousness.
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I thought about this the other night when I was thinking about what I was going
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to speak about on tonight's sermon.
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And I remember going through my course through the University of Sedona for the metaphysical.
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And there was a lot of God, this, Jesus, that.
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And I said, I thought I was learning about metaphysics. I didn't realize there's
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going to be so much God in Jesus. I only know about it because that's my past
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religion, you know, when I was practicing Catholicism.
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But it quickly says you're defining God as a source.
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And if you believe that there is an all-encompassing creator of all sorts in
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everything, well, don't we, by definition, fall under the category of everything?
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See, that religious instruction teacher also said, and I even remember this, what is heaven?
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Is heaven floating on some cloud in the sky? That would be pretty boring.
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God is everywhere and in everything.
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So we can't define just one God all the time unless that's what you believe
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in. I believe in multiple gods.
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But I don't worship or pray to any one. And here's the reason why.
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See, us as human beings, we're made up of flesh, blood, bone.
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Most of us can believe we have something within us, a soul.
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But then there's a third thing that might also fit into that soul.
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And that's consciousness. We've never really been able to define consciousness,
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We're still trying to figure out
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exactly what that is And I think without consciousness What would we be?
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Now, to me, if we're talking God, we're also talking consciousness that we all have within us.
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And that's a beautiful thing. And what I was taught and what I believe, power of prayer, right?
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There's so many of these prayer warriors and prayer groups that go out there and they do their thing.
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And they're praying to God for a specific result.
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The thing is, there's been many, many cases where these prayer groups had great
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outcomes, perfect success.
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But the thing is, many people believe, oh, that's God.
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The thing is, if I'm praying over someone to heal someone, and that person miraculously
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heals, God didn't just step out of the universe, come trampling down,
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put his hands over it, and say, okay, healed.
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And then turn to us prayer warriors and say, hey, I heard your prayer and I've done it for you.
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It does not happen that way. It goes right to source, to God,
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to the universe, whatever it is, whatever word we use.
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It goes up there and us as human beings, we have this power.
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And I say something that is so sacrilege in most religions saying we are gods ourselves,
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because we have access to the same source, to the same power,
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to that same universe to do these things.
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When we get together and we pray or prayer warriors do this,
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they are talking to source.
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That power from source comes down to us through our consciousness,
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which then spreads to wherever it is that we are praying for.
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You could choose not to believe this, and I'm okay with that.
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Everybody has their own beliefs.
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But when it comes to metaphysical, when it comes to spiritual,
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we're not designed for structured religion, saying we must grovel to a certain God.
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No, we have the same power, the same source, because we came from that source,
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and we are connected to that same source.
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It's just a matter of believing that, reaching up and understanding that no
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matter how we do it, if we pray, if we do rituals, no matter what,
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we're connecting to that same source.
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And that source is coming down through us. We're very divine in that way.
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Our souls are still so connected.
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I believe our bodies are too as well. We just need to remember how to activate that.
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But for right now For what we can do Some of us have much more gifts Than most,
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And that's great too But we all have that And we must remember that We all have our own gifts,
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And it's just a matter of practicing And once we believe And we use the words
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Whatever word we choose God's source,
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Consciousness Universal.
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We're using that It's part of us, it's in us.
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And we just activate it through that source.
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And then when we're down here, gathering on our Thursday sermons,
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this could be church, a ministry, a religious organization, a society.
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We call it what we will. The power of words are very, very important.
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And if we're using them correctly,
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They're going to mean a lot to us, and they can establish things for us.
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My name is Gary Dean. I thank you for joining me on this sermon.
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I'm going to turn things over now to our cosmic fairy princess,
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speaking of words, and let's see what she's got for us. Lizzie, take it away.
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Thank you very much. That was a lovely sermon, by the way, now that you moved my screen around.
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When I was thinking about what I wanted to talk about today, I was thinking about how,
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everybody kind of approaches truth a little bit differently,
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and something that's really important to all with this church,
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if I decide where I want my thing at.
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That each person has the opportunity to explore their own truth.
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Because I do believe that each person has something very unique to themselves
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that they can only find within themselves.
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But I think it's also true that you see that reflected in the world around you.
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And two things can be true at once. And that kind of led me to what I wanted
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to talk about today, because my favorite way to explore truth,
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because when you try to go and broaden your perspective, there's like a lot
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of infinite possibilities.
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And that's hard. And there's, of course, infinite ways to go about it.
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But my favorite way is to play with polarity, duality and unified truth.
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Truth when i originally was
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exploring truth i was trying to find like this core deepest
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truth this like undeniable below everything
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just foundational but the truth is it just doesn't really work that way we all
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exist as everything everywhere everyone in every way but we're also in this
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beautifully and carefully crafted,
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limited perspective and experience of being a human, your version of a human.
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And so we actually, in a way, select our truth by our awareness of what we're
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willing to witness, hold, let go of change and body.
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We select our truth with our actions, our words, and the definitions and whys of life.
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The thing is, is when I first was exploring truth and I would reach a new layer
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of it, it was like it kind of undid that truth.
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And I'd be like, oh, I was like, I was so wrong. And I tried to like rewrite everything.
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And as I rewrote it, I would find that actually my new truth is true,
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but also the old truth is true too, just not necessarily in the way that I was viewing it before.
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The thing is, is when truth, when you find a new truth, and it undoes the old
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truth, generally speaking, you're not getting rid of a filter or a lens,
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you're just changing perspective, you're changing the lens.
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And that's really useful to then get to know that experience, that perspective.
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But for me, my end goal is to eventually find where they merge together.
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So I define polar truths as two opposing truths, like good and evil.
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Duality is allowing those polar truths to exist simultaneously without undoing
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each other, as in good and evil both exist, and they're both right and wrong in their own way.
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Unified truth is where you begin
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to recognize where the polar truths actually support
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and reinforce each other rather than argue
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with each other because that's typically what happens in the beginning of finding
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a new perspective is it feels like it's the opposite it like it undoes the other
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one but slowly when you give it space to just exist and everything to move without
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you holding and defining,
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those polar truths kind of start merging into one truth.
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And when it becomes a unified truth, it actually, they support each other and
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they support you in what you're trying to do.
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And so if it doesn't get to that, then you're not there yet.
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You're exploring this perspective.
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Nothing wrong with that. Nothing to rush. You'll just like, fuck yourself up anyways with that.
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By merging polar truths, you slowly reveal a broader truth that is more useful,
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but that is yours to determine.
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It can be true that a person's behavior is inappropriate and kind of makes them
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an asshole, but it can also be true that they were doing the very best they
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could with what they had and what they knew, and from where they were standing,
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that was the right thing to do.
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Both of those can be true. And when you give space for an example,
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their intentions were to protect themselves and their actions were not great.
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Both of those can exist at once. And when you give space for that,
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you get to see their perspective and love them where they are.
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And it gives them space to love themselves where they are, which opens them
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up to evolving that perspective to better see your perspective.
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When you see the way that they're learning to strengthen their boundaries,
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you're learning to soften yours, you see how the disagreement was actually beneficial
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for both of you guys, so long as you let go of what you're insisting on.
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The original truth is that their behavior was inappropriate,
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and it makes them an asshole.
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The fact that the argument came out to resolve things you didn't realize were
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a problem doesn't undo that that was not a great way to handle the situation.
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That's still true, but also the other one gets to be true, too.
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And truthfully, this polarity-duality-unify goes through all of it.
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And that's personally how I like to explore it.
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Another one, a big topic right now that everybody's on is how expensive gas is.
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It's true that the gas prices have gone up right now, but it's also true that
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the price of things are actually irrelevant to me.
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We are all infinitely abundant multidimensional beings.
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That means that if the prices go up, either we'll have more resources to fund
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it or it's in our best interest to drive less.
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Prices have gone up, but that doesn't have to limit you.
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That would mean that they are existing still as polar or maybe even dual truths.
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Sometimes it's an opportunity to look around and see what wants to shift in
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life. Maybe you get a grand idea for making some new money.
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Maybe it gets you to notice that your car is actually eating up far more fuel
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than it usually does. It maybe needs some maintenance.
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Maybe you realize you're actually not that efficient with your errands and you
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can save gas in more importantly time if you just strategize a little,
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which will in turn open you up to more.
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The thing is, is a lot of the times we encounter these things that just seem
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like they're like, like, what the hell?
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Example today my apartment complex
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took the railing off of my porch I just have no
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railing on my porch and they've also taken all the wooding from underneath the
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cement plank I'm actually uncertain if it's safe to walk on my cats go out there
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like and they're just they just left they didn't inform me that it was going
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to happen that just happened and so I'm sitting there going,
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what am I supposed to do and I want to ask all these questions and maybe I will
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maybe I won't tomorrow when they're open like when am I going to get a railing
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on my board the truth is is that,
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They should have notified me that's not safe to not tell a person you're going
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to pull the railing off of their porch.
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But it's also true that my cats will actually be just fine.
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They know where the edge is and I lock the door.
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The kids can't get out there. It is safe. Both of those are true.
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And for whatever this is trying to teach me, show me, reveal to me,
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move me towards them, I don't know yet because it just barely happened and I'm
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still processing what the heck.
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How do you anyways it's fine i just you know you got to be a little and you
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know remove the railings in life i guess maybe that's a good reminder.
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When you're exploring truth, it's really easy to get caught up in that everything
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has like a specific meaning.
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But the truth is, is you do decide that.
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Is it teaching you something? Is it revealing something to you?
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Is it just a fucking annoying thing that people just didn't think about your perspective?
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And the truth is, is it doesn't matter and you just get to decide.
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And so when something's happening and you're pissed about it,
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before you move, before you let it go, before all of those things,
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like just give it a minute to just be.
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Because sometimes we jump to an assumption, but a lot of the times that's just
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based off of our past pattern.
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And the more we can just allow things to reveal themselves and allow those truths
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to be explored without trying to define them along the way,
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the more we just open ourselves up to more potential, more opportunities.
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And, okay, I think that's it. So thank you so much for listening to me today.
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Well, that was absolutely fantastic, Lizzie. Thank you so much.
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And thank you so much to everybody that tunes in, joins us.
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Of course, if you miss us, this is recorded and we're going to get it up in
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a little while. And you can tune in whenever you like.
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But in the meantime, from Eye Opener Society, we thank you all so very much
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for joining us. And we'll see you next Thursday, 7 p.m.
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Eastern Standard Time for our live sermon. Have a good one.