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Rabbi Moshe Haber Path of the Just- Perishoot: Cultivating Leanness to Avoid Dependency and Achieve Higher Potential 7.15.25 · Rabbi Moshe Haber - Daily Mussar/Weekly Perasha

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  191282 So he asked the question, emphasizing and stressing this
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  idea of pity shoots, which maze in many ways holding back.
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  So we showed so many examples, not being too busy with food,
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  not being too obsessed with drink, not being overly obsessed
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  with needing a perfect sleep or needing to to be a big talker.
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  All these things he says can lead to problems.
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  So instead of person has to basically be lean in all these
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  areas to make themselves less prone to issues.
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  This is pretty shoot, it's an obligation, no relief to a
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  better life. So now he asks, so if this is
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  true, why did the Torah make it part of the Torah itself?
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  If this is a concept that a person should be not so busy
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  with these different things because they're going to lead to
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  problems, gateway problems make us become too obsessed with
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  things, whatever it may be. So why did the turn on the
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  beginning just writing to be entered right into that itself?
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  Be a Polish. Don't be, you know, you have a
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  limit of 100 words. You can say a day, you know, or
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  you shouldn't overeat. Give us the rules, give us the
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  restrictions so that we avoid all these problems.
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  BIM tish al it's Omar. If you're going to ask and say
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  in can, if this is the truth, Air Force, this is obviously a
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  necessary concept of being punished.
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  Maybe it's not itself wouldn't write it.
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  Why the rabbi's make it clear very much across the board rule.
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  Kamoshiga Zoo, they have so many other rules.
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  I see a good issue with Takanochiga Zoo.
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  They have rules like Muksi and all these different rules.
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  Why did they give us a rule? You're not allowed to talk too
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  much or you're not allowed to be too busy with food.
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  I don't know. Here are the shivam avoided to
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  pursue that. The answer is, this concept is
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  not for everybody. The way he says it is as
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  follows. Kilo gazu Hakim zerah ella M Ken
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  rohatsibor yeholima. Moba is a rule myself, Abu
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  Dazarah. They will not give you a decree.
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  They will not give the broader Jewish community a decree unless
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  it's able to be followed. Then Robert Zibu yekhlim leot
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  hasidim and it shouldn't. The reality is majority of the
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  Tibur cannot follow the rules. I just said about the lambs.
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  You said the Kim. It's good enough that they're
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  good people to go and apply this concept to become even a better
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  person at Hakalimbai ah However has the Redeemer should be on
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  the select few Hakaf. It seem this called the
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  corvatoist para who want to get close to the sham, the people
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  who want to avoid pitfalls, who want to become better people.
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  But as well as I call to Biz Kutam and to have much merit to
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  call a shot here on morning and be the ones who really are the
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  people that the whole community depends on.
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  The ones who want to become a little better, the ones who want
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  to become the leader, the ones who want to be the finer people,
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  Lahem and Maggia. Those are the people who require
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  the Kayam Mishnat Hasidim to follow the rules.
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  I just said to be a better person, to be on the top of the
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  community, you need to be the ones who are appreciate the best
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  of the people are those who are Polish.
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  Now again, Polish in this definition does not mean that
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  they live in a cave. It doesn't mean that you can
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  notice anything different about that.
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  It just means they're cognizant and thoughtful to avoid getting
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  pulled into all the problems of life.
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  They're basically very aware and they're very aware of all these
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  concepts that say to themselves, I don't want to be a guy who
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  hangs out for a long amount of time because that's going to
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  lead to Shalom problems. I don't want to be a person who
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  talks too much because that's going to lead to speech issues
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  like a Sean and I etcetera or fights.
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  I don't want to be a person who's so obsessed with the food
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  I eat because that's going to lead to different issues.
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  Like I'm always going to need to have a good meal and I have
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  challenges with cut shoot. I don't want to be a person that
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  always need to have the most comfortable situation because
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  that's going to lead me to become a spoiled person.
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  So basically the person is cognizant of being a better
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  person. He has that in his mind.
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  He's aware of that and he's the one of the select few in the
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  community or the Jewish people who was on top.
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  All right, We're not talking about how much today he learns
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  how much he prays. We're talking about a person.
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  Of course he's strong in all other areas, but in this
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  specific area he's working on himself to avoid problems, so.
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  There's a big issue today if you look around, but we just said
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  the moment sports everything became, oh, I I need to
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  calculate this and be the best at it and it doesn't matter.
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  Like, yeah, I know a guy that used to come to pray in the
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  morning, then his tennis instructors only able to give
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  him 7:00 AM lessons exactly. So the last three months he gave
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  a. It's exactly.
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  It's exactly the idea they have all these examples when a person
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  becomes too connected. I don't think you call the word
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  reliant, but too connected on any of these fronts.
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  What happens is they make themselves now available to so
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  many different challenges like that one, like scheduling
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  challenge. A guy wants to learn, go to
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  class, but he goes to the gym, it's out.
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  You should go to the gym, Perfectly fine person should be
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  fit. That's very much very clear
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  idea, but not if it's going to take away or at least
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  completely. Why?
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  Boy, they're both to learn. Because after four or five
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  years, you say, why does that guy not never go to class?
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  Because he goes to the gym. Could you imagine what he's
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  losing out on? Because he has a certain
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  requirement that's guaranteed. He always plays tennis and it's
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  a simple thing this time. In and of itself, none of these
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  things are bad. That's the beauty of it.
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  None of these things are bad, but what they pull you away from
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  or what they lead you to can be, shouldn't be destructed.
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  It's unbelievable to define it right.
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  The gym is an example. If it force you to give up
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  something, it force you to become too dependent, too
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  connected and makes you therefore more available to
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  problems. Take any of these examples that
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  we have and a person is basically leaner in these
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  examples. All right, take the talking
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  example. He's not a big talker.
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  He make sure not to hang out too long when these conversations go
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  on. Say yourself, what's the big
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  deal to be a talker? It'll be that he wants to
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  schmooze. You're right, you can schmooze,
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  but if you sit and talk for hours and then if you're that
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  type of person, there's a far greater possibility and
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  probability of fights breaking out when it comes to
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  conversations you're having or disputes or saying something
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  wrong. All right, I know people love to
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  hang out. I'm not a hangout type of guy.
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  It's not my thing. I know people love to hang out
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  and they going in with the minds they want to have a good time or
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  good. The reality is bottom line that
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  you have to know who has more fights or is more the sweet.
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  They're trying to have more fun. I'm not as interested in fun.
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  And who has more fights? Those laying out are much more
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  prone to fights than those who don't, right?
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  It's basically simply if you stay away from things.
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  Obviously that healthy approach, but if you leaner in life in
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  general have less probability of leading to problems, less
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  probability of having problems during those instances.
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  That's how it works, right? And the leading includes
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  dependability. The leading includes needing it,
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  leading includes scheduling conflicts.
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  All these things are LED become problems because you're so
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  connected, dependent, reliant on all these different areas.
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  If you're leaner, you have less things that you rely on,
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  dependent and busy with less of her ability to create problems.
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  This is how it works. It's that simple.
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  How many people have been pull their Achilles, for example?
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  Not that many people pull about that many.
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  How many people on the basketball court pull their
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  Achilles a lot more. Why?
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  Because they're on the court and they're jumping and they're
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  running. So the more you're involved in
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  the different areas, the more you have the capability to dump
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  into problems in those areas, which is the way life is.
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  That's his point. And he's saying if you want to
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  become but the upper echelon of the Jewish people and you have
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  to be cognizant and mindful of these concepts.
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  Again, this is not an iron clear idea.
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  No one says don't talk. No one says don't enjoy food.
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  No one says don't go to a restaurant.
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  But they do say don't be a guy who always needs to have a long
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  conversation and sit around and just sit there and talk.
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  That wasn't in cause problems will come out.
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  Don't be a person who always needs to go out to eat all the
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  time, because then there'll be a place where you can't go out to
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  eat and you'll have trouble, or there'll be a time you can't go
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  out to eat and then face an issue of kashut ever.
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  Maybe. So don't be dependent or lied
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  busy with these things. That's the problem.
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  Stop. That's who's telling you.
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  Again, this is in order to become the finer, better part of
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  our community of the Jewish people.
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  Well, that's and that's obvious what you meant this whole week
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  with staying away from things that are mortar.
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  Yeah, because it just like when you, when you, when you play it
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  out in modern society, right 'cause it sounded very ancient.
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  But today you see it in everything.
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  Nothing. Nothing is good enough in the
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  physical world that everyone is suffice with not growing in
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  their spiritual world. What happens is anything that
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  you become linked to physically, right automatically, if you're
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  too linked to it, it pulls away. It has different methods of
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  pulling away, either as a gate Reeves least or more or as a
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  literally as a distraction because it takes you away from
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  whatever you're doing. I think of learners, OK, it's
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  heavy. It's always accurate.
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  It's part of the heavy concept of of of of go ahead 100%.
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  I think of learners, right? Guys in Kuwait, guys who spend
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  the day learning anything, literally anything that comes up
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  that has not involved in learning is unbelievable what it
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  does to their growth. I was looking around yesterday
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  when lake, when I'm looking around, I'm looking at certain
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  people and I knew them from years ago, just random.
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  It happened to be yesterday, one or two guys and I said to
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  myself, and I remember their projection when they were
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  younger, when they were 22 years old, 22 years old, and that
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  projection what their their future was straight up.
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  You follow their path, they can become unbelievable to
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  unbelievable now, are they not? They're not on the level that
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  they could have become. That's all I would say now.
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  Why not? Why not?
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  All they need is one small derailment, Any derailment and
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  it's off. Derailment can be.
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  They got busy with trying to figure out how to how to figure
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  out their finances. OK, that's a real thing.
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  There's no choice. Derailment can be.
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  They really weren't so committed to sitting and learning the way
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  they were at that age. Whatever it is they got busy
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  with, you know, having a problem in her name, they got for this
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  Army lights in the building. I look at myself the same
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  derailment. Any person has a derailment,
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  anything, and it takes away from where they're headed, right?
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  So fine, They didn't go off. They didn't do anything crazy.
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  There's not exactly where the natural projection would have
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  been if they just follow that path as is.
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  That's the way life is. But any person that you and I
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  both know, any people we know who are, you know, good people
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  at heart who would dedicate people, they can become
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  unbelievable. What happens is life things at
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  the fine. If things come up, they have to
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  deal with them, but they themselves on their own will got
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  involved in things, got busy with something and you save
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  yourself one second. This guy had unbelievable
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  potential, but he was too busy. Yes, with tennis, he likes
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  tennis, that's great. But people obsessed with tennis,
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  how much they're taking away because of that, always too
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  overly driven to make money beyond the normal amount.
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  Or he cares too much what people think.
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  Or his entire person that loves to schmooze all the time and
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  it's like a bad thing. But you know what?
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  All these things derail a person is how it works.
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  And all it tells you is if you're a leaner in these areas,
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  if you stick to who you are, he has such a greater capability of
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  becoming unbelievable. Every person you and I both know
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  has great potential. The problem is how they take
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  themselves out. And this is voluntarily because
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  of enjoyment. You have a guy who was a great
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  guy. He's a sports fan.
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  OK, I like sports. Sportsman is great.
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  Yeah, but. You don't over here.
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  He's not saying moderation, he's saying absences.
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  Like you stay away from it. So it's the ability to stay away
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  from, you're right, by the way, really moderation is really the
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  modern day version of this. Stay away, stay away is the way
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  to say, OK, keep it away to never get close.
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  But the goal is to have limitations.
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  The challenge is it's hard to limit yourself, especially if
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  you have our community or the modern Jewish person.
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  Everything we get involved in, we get obsessed.
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  That's the way we are. All right.
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  The guy is a tennis guy to the ABS example.
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  If he's a good tennis guy, he's good at it.
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  Or he's a golfer. OK?
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  Some people like golf. I can hear you.
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  Any other people who golf every single day?
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  OK, Every day, or they're not working that much?
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  They golf every single day. Golf every single day.
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  Are you serious? I'm sure by Day 4 of the week,
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  by Wednesday, right? The Gulf is not really because
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  they enjoy the Gulf. It's not possible.
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  Rather, it's just that this became a routine.
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  So then that's that's right there.
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  That's literally life being taken away.
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  I mean, I guess productivity being taken away unless they
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  have a method to be productive through that.
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  I don't want to disparage anybody unless that way to be
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  productive through that. That's the way to have a free
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  clear mind. OK, They make money that way or
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  they produce it that way. Feel far between.
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  But if a guy becomes depending too much on golfing every single
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  day, you got to say the hours that are being taken away,
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  there's productivity being ruined.
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  That's the same mindset. A guy with a tennis guy now he
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  needs to be with the instructor all the time is constantly.
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  OK, relax. You know, you're not going,
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  you're not going to Wimbledon tomorrow.
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  So, so relax, you know what I mean?
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  There's degrees on levels that we get connected and busy and
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  involved, and all this are all distractions from the genuine
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  you and I and the capability we can become.
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  That's what it is. That's how it works, all right?
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  And we have a knack for being obsessed.
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  We all have knacks for being obsessed.
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  I don't know if it's the Syrian mentality, Jewish mythology,
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  whatever it is, we like to get involved.
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  Great, but watch where it goes. That's the challenge, all right?
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  It's the idea. People want to dip in the pool
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  once a day. Fine, that's good.
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  The rainy day, you're in a bad mood because they didn't get
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  their pool dipped. OK, That you've ruined it.
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  You just ruined the purpose of your little habit.
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  The purpose is to give you a little pleasure, not to make you
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  sad. And saying it's literally the
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  same idea as addiction, same idea as everything.
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  That's how he's telling he knew the Pahot.
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  He says, yes, baam, mother got, mother got.
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  There are many levels to our Jewish people, many degrees.
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  We're talking about the best. At least let's have some people
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  who prepare themselves properly. And it's interesting, these
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  people lead the way for all our people.
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  When you have such people like this who are not so dependent,
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  such people that are, you know, keeping themselves out of harm's
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  way, by the way, keeping themselves out of being involved
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  in all these things. These people lead the way.
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  The whole Jewish people, same ideas we have to love has four
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  different meaning, right? That the set has four meaning.
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  And the idea is each one has a special strength.
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  The other one doesn't have one good one.
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  Let's compare on the other one, which O karma tsuya was a whole
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  a torch shamala Bishop and the V bin ma said to all the ula
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  Barkoshev Shiva Shiva, the law mishnai of Wamala vahi mishna
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  tracedimu. Or is this conversation, I don't
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  know the instant inside city inside it was an example of
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  where not all people have the same requirements.
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  OK, this is the idea. Patient.
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  OK, so just before we go to the next step, which probably we'll
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  do tomorrow, let's absorb this concept.
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  The concept clearly is, is that a person can be able to reach a
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  far greater level. A person can become a much more
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  productive person and a much more beautiful person by doing
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  the following, by being less connected, dependent, busy,
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  involved and things in this world, right?
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  The less you are, the better off you are.
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  Now again, the greedy is called pretty shoot, which means
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  completely wiped away. Fine, that's a far level.
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  But the concept we can observe for us today is, is that all
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  these things we are busy with, anything we're involved in,
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  realize and follow. What did it lead to?
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  If it led to me having more relaxed life, OK, great.
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  But if it led to me to being upset when I don't have it or
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  LED to a problem where because it leads to a path to another
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  issue, led to a dependency, led to an obsession with
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  materialism, whatever it may be, will led to a inability to
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  function without it. All these things are really all
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  literally, if you think about America today, if you think
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  about America today, there's so much that we have, I had,
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  there's so much that we would tell ourselves.
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  If I don't have that one thing, my idea is not the same.
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  All right? So it's kind of backfiring if
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  you without it to overtake you that kind of backfired.
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  The purpose or purpose, the purpose of all these things that
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  we have are meant to make life easier.
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  Yet if you're missing one of them, life is impossible.
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  That's overdoing these ideas is enjoyment and that's where
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  petition comes in. Stick to the basics, be a leaner
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  person in every area and never be feel better by yourself.
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  Feel good, always feel the same. The more dependent you are, all
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  the different things, the more your mood can swing, the more if
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  you're depending on good weather, your mood swings on bad
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  weather, that's 50% of your life.
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  OK, right there. If you depend on good sleep,
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  your days are fully dependent on good sleep.
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  And again, not every day is a good sleep, right?
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  I'm always sleeping right. Depending on if you dependent on
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  that, everything has to feel good around you.
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  You need then a lot of times we have things that are up in the
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  air, all right. It's dependent on a perfect
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  meal. A lot of times they don't enjoy
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  your food. You go on and on and on and
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  dependency really controls our mood.
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  So again, an example, the more you're involved, the more you're
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  busy, the more it leads to problems.
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  Exactly. That's exactly what it is.
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  We start thinking what the idea of it is.
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  America is what's going on. America is, I share all these
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  different concepts. They seem, you know, extreme.
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  Oh wow, that's the person altruistic.
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  No, that's the person extremely idealistic.
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  They actually are the leaner, healthier, more genuine you as
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  the one who's less dependent. That's idealist.
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  Top of the global.