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Rabbi Moshe Haber Path of the Just - The Down to Earth Path of the Just 4.22.26 · Rabbi Moshe Haber - Daily Mussar/Weekly Perasha

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  58 You need to gear up for this because he's going through a
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  mental humbling process trying to take a person down to earth
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  to relax and to not believe that he deserves so much and
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  certainly knows when it comes to honor in order to function and
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  practice in a humble way. So he did so because he told us
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  first of all, you have to practice it literally and get
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  accustomed to it. Now he's getting to the mental
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  angle, he said from the schnappy cowboy.
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  As you know, then, every person needs to know where they came
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  from, where they're headed to and whom they're going to stand
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  in front of. Those big three really bring a
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  person down to earth and make, you know, any mentality of
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  grandeur. And these things become very
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  much limited when you think that way.
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  Now, let's play it out in full detail.
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  Get ready. Keep it.
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  The truth is, call it these three points Hamnek deem
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  Ligalva. They contrast arrogance, the
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  Azim ELA Nava and they make you humble.
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  What are the three points? Kibiota Adam mistakel, the
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  bahritudes homero vigrituta attrato.
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  When a person realizes how material they are and where they
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  came from, what they started with.
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  You look at a little baby, think that way.
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  Start from a baby, but I didn't start earlier.
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  Start from a little baby. And he was the baby has no
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  control. We can't speak, maybe can't even
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  eat on its own, definitely can't walk and hardly crawl, right?
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  That's completely and totally helpless without the help of
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  other people on its own as the baby starts.
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  And that's what we are. Everything from that point is
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  development, everything. The point is Hashem's gift to us
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  to change us really, really what we are is we're a baby.
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  We're a helpless individual. You start from that.
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  You realize where you started from.
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  You recognize there's no reason for arrogance.
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  Everything from then on has been God's gift.
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  Even that has been God's gift. But you can start.
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  You can't stop before that point in your mind.
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  You start from that point and you realize just how helpless
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  we, technically speaking, are, and therefore just how humble we
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  think these things should be. That's what he's telling you.
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  And little time. You have no angle and no
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  perspective within that sick cloud to be arrogant at all,
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  Ella Lavochevilicale. If you live without mindset,
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  you'd be embarrassed and ashamed.
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  Now, no one's telling you to walk around ashamed, but they
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  are telling you to walk around minus and deleting Any sort of
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  arrogance and any sort of cowering is off in a heavy way,
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  as if you're something special because our core, we came from
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  this. OK, what is this similar to?
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  And you probably have some people in your mind that fit
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  this picture. Not as strong, but fit this
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  picture, Little Air Khazim, Shaheel and Loch.
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  A guy was a swineherd, but that really amuses.
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  He was a shepherd of pigs. Kyle was a shepherd of pigs
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  somehow. And I used the odds was a little
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  nicer than shepherd of pigs. What happened?
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  He graduated to becoming king somehow, right?
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  A classic example that they give someone to this Ahashidosh, it
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  was a stable boy became a king call it ashiya scoria
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  mavarition. Whenever you remember his early
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  days, he can't even he thinks about his early days.
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  He can't think arrogantly. He have Charlo lachait Gaia.
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  He can't think arrogantly when he realizes where he came from
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  right now they in America today we use his rag to riches and we
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  spin the whole thing till you make even more arrogance.
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  But at its core, I listened yesterday to a ballplayer, the
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  guys talking about the projects he grew up in all right fine.
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  So if they think probably they should be I'm blessed I'm
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  looking God give me talent If I'm in the right spot, I made
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  millions of dollars. I'm just so happy to be here
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  right. That should be the mindset and
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  that's the real mindset. There's no way to, there's no
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  way to develop arrogance and from this climbing of this
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  ladder, because he came from nothing and he became something.
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  And at his core, he's nothing plus.
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  That's really what a person should think.
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  Like I said, today we spin it as rank creatures.
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  That's a spin. That's A twist at its core,
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  where it really is rags plus he's a nothing plus.
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  That should be the perspective. And if someone thinks that way,
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  yeah, they're going to be successful.
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  Yes, they're going to be blessed, but they're going to
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  look at every layer of addition and to their life, the ability
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  to function and grow and develop and make a business and make a
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  family and, and, and, and impact the world.
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  All these different things that they've done right.
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  They say plus plus plus plus plus go down to the core.
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  I'm the core plus all that and I'm really nothing.
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  And if you think that way, you chill out and you relax on all
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  the perspectives of arrogance. Arrogance comes from our
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  successes and our accomplishments and one by one,
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  you and I, if we had to discuss them, we would go 1 by 1 and we
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  could remove that accomplishment and that one and that one and
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  the other one that we could say it's all baby plus.
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  You go baby plus core plus nothing plus.
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  And you realize, well, plus, sure, I feel great.
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  The position that I'm in a person can say, but at the same
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  time, I'll chill out and it won't be arrogant.
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  That's the perspective. It's impossible to be arrogant
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  if you think this way. OK, sure.
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  Come on, Ken. And the guy doesn't want to
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  think so much about his past. He wants to think about his
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  future. Oh, my future's bright.
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  I own 33 apartments. I have whatever.
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  I have a bunch of cars. I'm rolling on a big deal,
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  right? I get to pick up and fly
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  whenever I want. Anywhere in the world.
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  I'm rolling. Think about your future.
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  That's great. But think about the long term
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  future. Long time future doesn't end
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  that well in this sense. Oh Shah Shah of Komokan shabbi
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  soap called gutulotab yahshuva farda mahala talat is a strong
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  word. I told you, I asked you to get
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  ready. He will be literally in the
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  ground which you will end up and he'll be there for the worm, so
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  to speak. In other words, he's got 0
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  control of his outcome 0. So you started with no control
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  and you had it with no control, right?
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  With that, tell us you this the point that you're holding right
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  now where you feel like we're all in control is a joke it's a
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  sketch it's all a mirage We started with no control.
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  We end with no control. We're playing games in the
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  middle, but really we're nothing plus and we're like we said,
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  headed to nothing from nothing going to nothing, some way of
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  finding ourselves in between. That says relax, because a lot
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  of times the arrogance come from look what I made you, look what
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  I did, look what I accomplished and we know it's really zero.
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  A lot of the comes, the arrows comes from look what I have,
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  look where I'm headed, like what I have and you have what you
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  have eternally. And that's also in the physical
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  sense. 0 Do you have your accomplishments spiritually?
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  Sure. Do you have your accomplishments
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  and what you've done for the people?
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  Absolutely. You're learning, you're praying,
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  you're giving, you're caring, you're helping, you're advising
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  even, you're supporting. All that is there, sure, and
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  I'll stay with you forever. But at its core, you and me, our
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  cores are really nothing plus and we're headed to nothing.
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  And that, for all of us, is a very humbling statement.
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  It's very humbling, but at the same time, it's not so bad
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  'cause it's just very real. You just finally out the truth.
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  And the truth is life is awesome.
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  We're blessed. We have a lot going for us, but
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  not our own going for us. We are blessed to have it going
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  for us. So therefore we end up being
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  humble. We remain very happy about our
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  state. We remain very thrilled about
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  the blessings I Sham has given us.
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  The fact that he supported us and took care of us and give us
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  the health to this point and give us everything that we have.
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  We're very appreciative. At the same time, it's blessing,
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  blessing, blessing, blessing. And it's not me, me, me.
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  Instead of becoming the most difficult person to be around,
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  you become the most enjoyable person to be around 'cause you
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  have things going through left and right and people say, wow,
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  this guy, he's got a roll going on and he still carries himself
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  the right way. It's such a thing.
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  He's as easy to talk to. He's down to Earth.
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  Down to Earth literally means he's humble.
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  Down to Earth in this sense means he's down to Earth.
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  He knows where he's headed. He knows where he came from.
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  He came from Earth. He's known to Earth, right?
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  He's a regular person. Literally, you want to take a
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  little roll literally down to Earth means he came from Earth.
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  He's going to Earth. He's Earth plus his whole life,
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  so of course he's normal. That's not a douche.
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  He's just thinking. A person who's humble is a
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  person who's real. We've said this so many times.
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  He's just someone who doesn't allow himself to sketch himself.
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  An arrogant person is someone who's a fool.
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  He's a fool because he's fooling himself.
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  That's it. That's what he is.
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  A humble person is a real person.
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  An arrogant person is a fool. That's what he's telling you.
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  So be real and you're much easier to be around and you're
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  much easier to connect to it, to talk to now Koschke, so you can
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  now go on. No, Oh, definitely get rid of
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  his arrogance. Forget about where he came from,
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  and these are where he came went to only two.
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  That's even more of a reason. Which one is a driver?
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  Your stronger force, your potential and your ultimate
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  future was more of a humbling mindset and your past, because
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  your past, you can still say accomplishment.
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  Accomplishment, like I said, Rakes to riches.
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  I afford it. The fact that I started in the
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  projects makes me even better, makes me even more impressive.
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  The fact that I was a swineherd, whatever he called it, a
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  shepherd and I became king makes me even more impressive.
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  That can be spun, like I said, Rakes to riches, but the future
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  can't get around that. You can't avoid it, you can't
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  stop it, you can't fight it. That is something that's
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  unbelievably humbling. Quima Tovo Uma Gadulato, what is
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  what are his gifts? What is his grandeur of Alcarito
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  Porsche to Lima? When he's headed to the exits,
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  he's headed to the finish line, he's headed back down to earth,
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  right? So where's his grandeur coming
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  from? And then when the person gets to
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  this point, this is really rough when a person imagines standing
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  in front of Ashem and Ashem's analyzing everything you've done
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  your entire life story. All right, that guy will zip it
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  up real fast. I got quiet.
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  Any person that thinks this way, imagine himself sitting in front
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  of a sham and standing in front of a sham and being being judged
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  and being allies. It's it's it's overwhelmingly
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  humble. It's too much.
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  You really can't function this way.
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  If you think about it too much. I'm telling you honestly, if you
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  think about this too much, it makes you true, like feel small.
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  You want to go there, but once in awhile you do it and it
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  brings you down to earth. Regal console.
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  So if you realize you're going to be sitting in front of the
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  bedding, the great Joey Court and he'll find himself
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  one-on-one with God. Bishalte Gibbuda Hashem, who has
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  every single type of description powerful description on demand.
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  Hashem is the leader of Gibbira KOA or Siddevaro.
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  Hashem has a billion whatever is angels that just do God's will,
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  Hashem by him call the moon. There's not a single problem
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  with any of the angels for men to defend God guides them.
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  Karua I'm sitting in front of them.
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  I'm a nothing pahoot Venezeme besides 1.
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  You got this person with this history and these blackened
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  parts of his life standing in front of billions of angels and
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  God. It's a joke.
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  It's game over. Another conversation, There's
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  nothing to talk about. There's a person have a leg to
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  stand on. Hopefully he squeeze his body
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  and maybe he did a lot of good things that are alive and he
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  gets even past that point and shut up.
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  But nothing to get all loud about.
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  Not going to be the last person in the room.
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  He's going to try to go quietly. You know, Rashad, we try to pray
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  for no judgement. We want to go quietly because we
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  know there's a spotlight. We're in for it if that's the
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  case. So one second down here, the
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  guy's the biggest deal out there.
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  He's loud, he's noisy, he's gets upset all the time.
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  He demands, he thinks he's something special.
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  Yet in the real world right now, if God was just, you know, peel
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  away the cover, pull back the current and say, let me look
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  right now. You look at the entire picture.
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  So you see the people under this person who all afraid of this
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  person and they, they attempted they're they're, they're
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  terrorized by the fear of someone so intimidating guy.
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  And then you look at the real story, look upstairs as I'm just
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  looking down as a joke, right? The whole thing becomes a real
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  big total comedy scene. So the entire arrogance that
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  we're dealing with and the people that you face in your
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  life or even the mindset that we at times have that are, you
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  know, I'm something. How do you treat me this way?
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  Don't you know I am? Don't you recognize?
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  Come on, I deserve more. I've done so much for you.
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  The whole thing goes out the window and people become real,
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  real, real people. That's who you want to be
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  anyway. So this is you can become real
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  if you are real and what's going on in life, it's a very easy
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  pathway. You're real, what's going on in
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  life, you know the truth, you chill out, you relax and you
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  become a much easier person to be around.
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  So this at one point is a very sobering mindset.
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  It's a very humbling mindset. In a certain sense, it's a
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  limiting mindset, but it's also freeing you from falsehood, from
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  a made-up existence, for a freak persona, for something that
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  isn't really there, and freeing you from getting nervous.
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  Some other people who act this way 'cause when you look at them
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  now, you say you just left and you say, I know you.
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  I know you're a big deal right now.
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  I know the deal that you made. It was a complete gift for my
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  son. I know the the, the person that
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  that they valued you into the company.
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  They were very nice to you. I know your background.
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  I know your parents. I know the truth.
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  I know what you're doing in private life.
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  I know what your mistakes you said.
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  I heard the language you're using privately.
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  I know the whole deal. And because that all I can say
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  is chill out. And therefore, when I'm dealing
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  around you, I'm not going to get afraid.
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  I'm not going to be intimidated. I'm not going to be bothered
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  you. I'll tell the person you lose
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  because you're stuck with this life and you're living this fake
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  life and you're feeding into it and you're playing into it and
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  your mind is really, you know, above everyone else.
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  That's all a joke and I know it. You don't know it yet.
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  I know where it's coming. I don't know where you're
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  headed. So therefore I know you're going
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  to find out what I know right now.
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  And for me, what I'm saying right now sounds like it's an
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  arrogant perspective. It's not.
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  It's actually a very real perspective.
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  And when it does for a regular person is it helps them just
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  function in the world so much better because no one out there
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  is not a single person on the planet that should intimidate
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  you. Not a single is not a single
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  person on the planet who should you should look at and say I'm
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  terrified of them. They're more than me.
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  I or whatever they say is gold. Nothing doing.
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  That's just thing. And you know what?
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  Us too. We're not that person that
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  should be terrorists. I don't think we are.
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  We're not that person that should be intimidated.
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  We're not the person that should be whatever this person says is
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  gold. We're not that we're a regular
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  person function in a regular world where we came from, where
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  we're headed or we're going to meet.
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  We know the deal. And therefore actually flying
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  with much more strength. Because if you get real and you
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  relax from the say fake persona and you become down to earth
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  literally as we're saying it, what happens?
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  You function in a much more actual world.
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  Things can only insult you if they're really breaking at your
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  core, which is very unlikely. You don't really demand that
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  much. You don't get upset that often.
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  All the beauties of being humble come out when a person's real,
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  be asked to think about these three things, where he came
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  from, where he's headed and who he's going to meet.
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  You think about those three things.
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  You're nervous first, you get real.
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  Second, humble. And you then function in a much
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  better world and you look at all those people who are not that
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  way and you say chest out, head held high, yelling loud, making
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  demands, saying statements as if they make sense.
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  Chill out. Not that big a deal.
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  And I know we'll stop this.