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to most of us life seems like a constant
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battle a constant struggle to either
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attain something that we desire or to
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fend off things to get away from things
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that we do not desire that we want to
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avoid in life but by the end of this
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video I want to hopefully have convinced
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you that all this struggling all this
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fighting all this
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battling and all this push and pull that
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we feel of things that we want and
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things that we want to avoid
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is really largely if not completely self
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Afflicted and can be stopped within a
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moment and I know this is a concept that
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seems really
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radical but in essence and that's
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another thing I hope to show you is that
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it's also extremely simple and that the
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only thing that keeps people and that
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most people come in contact with it
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throughout their lives but what keeps
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them from seeing it understanding it
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belie leaving it and applying it is a
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very simple but fundamental
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misunderstanding of the entire
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concept and to convince you of this fact
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I'm going
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to get some help from multiple people
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one of them
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being Meister ekart or Master
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eart he was a uh
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German um well here I I'll read you more
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commonly known as m akart was born near
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gotha in Eastern Germany in around 1260
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he had an illustrious career in the
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Dominican order holding senior
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ecclesiastical and teaching posts all
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over Europe including sexy Bohemia Paris
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Strasburg and cologne eart is one of the
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great speculative Mystics of Western
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Europe who sought to reconcile
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traditional Christian belief with the
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transcendental metaphysics of neop
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neoplatonism so he was very much a big
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Christian figure a SC a scholar a
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preacher
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and he has very
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interesting ideas and
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insights about the human intellect and
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how we suffer through it and how we're
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how we can also be saved by it and he
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Likens the human intellect to God's
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intellect who is the intellect of
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intellect and how we become can become
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like God if only we apply this god-given
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gift this potential that we have it's
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like senaka says we are born for virtue
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but we are not born with virtue we need
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to acquire it
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ourselves and master eart is just um
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like we said he's a
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Mystic so like most other Mystics both
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in the Christian as well in the Muslim
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tradition uh they're very poetic they're
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very eloquent and they're very
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emotional and get to the point in that
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way rather than a purely academic or
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Scholastic way you could
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say and right on page 59 of this penguin
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edition of some of his
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work he
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says now I say further that all
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suffering comes from our love for what
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Misfortune takes from us if the loss of
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external things causes me pain then this
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is a clear sign that I love external
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things and thus in truth love suffering
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and despair is it surprising then that I
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suffer since I love and seek suffering
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and
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despair and that's really the heart of
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the matter and just like I've called in
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the help of master echart master eart
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calls in the help of another friend of
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ours
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Sena he says Sena a pagan Master asks
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what is the best consolation in
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suffering and distress and gives this
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answer it is this that we should accept
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everything as if we had desired it and
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prayed for it for you would have desired
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it if you had known that all things
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happen from with and in the will of God
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another Pagan Master says Lord Supreme
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father Master of the highest Heavens I
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am ready for all that you will give me
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the will to will what you
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will and here we have
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it and this is what all helenistic
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philosophy what the Ancients talk about
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what Christianity talks about what Islam
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talks about what Buddhism talks about
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what the bakat Gita talks about and many
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other philosophers schools of thought
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religions and philosophies whoever they
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are if they are in
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search in an
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open-minded and objective
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way of
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meaning then they all come to the same
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conclusions and you see someone like
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master eart who lived in the 13th
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century referencing Sena who in his own
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words was a pagan Someone who lived
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before
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Christianity yet he finds the same
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thought and he believes in the same
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thought and what is this
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thought we often
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say in our other videos which are much
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more based on people like senica than
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than Christians such as master
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eart
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that when we do not act indifferently to
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indifferent
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things when we love externals
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when we depend on externals and not on
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internals when we try to control what by
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Nature cannot be
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controlled that's when we find distress
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anxiety fear anger and everything else
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that we commonly experience in our daily
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lives that we want to get away from but
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again what does senica
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say he says if you knew that God willed
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it you would have willed it too
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everything that fortune throws at you
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what we tend to do is when externals
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such as say a job loss say a fire in
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your house say someone gets sick say
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your dog runs away it doesn't matter
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what it
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is when these things happen to us we
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immediately label them as either good or
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bad and when we do label them as bad we
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think we're in a bad way and that we
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need to now fight against these things
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that we need to fight to preserve
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something or fight to keep something
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away but that is the same
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thing in
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essence as trying to stand up to
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something to fight something that by its
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nature is
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invincible and not possible to fight not
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possible to
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overcome think of it in physical terms
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if you were at a
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beach and the water's nice and calm but
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all of a sudden you see a 40ft wave come
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toward
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you you would not try to fight that wave
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you would try to get out of its way if
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anything you would not stand up against
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it you would not try to win over it you
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would not try to defeat
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it yet when it comes to things like
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death disease or even smaller things
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such as Financial loss Financial ruin
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even even if you will any of our
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possessions being damaged or destroyed
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we think we can prevent that by fighting
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against it we think we can win over
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that and especially with things like
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death we think well if we never think
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about it if we act like it doesn't
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exist then that's us fighting against it
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maybe that way we can win over it but no
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as as epitus says
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to learn how to live is to learn how to
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die
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meaning we should not try to forget
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about death we should not try to ignore
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it we should not try to not think about
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it and act like it doesn't exist quite
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the opposite we should study it if we
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would study how to die we would
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essentially study how to live because to
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study how to die well is to study how to
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live well
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and look at all those people who do not
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surrender and when I say surrender I
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know there are lot of connotations
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attached to that and this is exactly the
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misunderstanding I was speaking of when
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we say that we should
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surrender we always have this idea of it
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being an act of weakness and not an act
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of strength at all but quite the
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opposite I want to convince you that
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surrendering that to will what God Wills
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what Fortune Wills what happens to us to
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want what is happening to us instead of
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trying to fight it is surrendering and
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it's an act of strength not an act of
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weakness rather look at it this way all
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those people that we sometimes hear
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about who end their lives because
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because something they've experienced
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terrible Financial
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loss or their loved ones left them even
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sometimes if it's a short relationship
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they say how can I go on living even
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though they don't realize they've been
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living quite well up to that point
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before they met that person and when
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they're in their lives we say we wish
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you could have adapted we say we wish
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you could have realized that this is not
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that big of a deal that you could have
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learned to live and that you would have
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come back from
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this and that nothing that can happen to
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you is as big as you make it out to be
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this fight this trouble this battle you
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make it out to
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be and we say I wish I could have been
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there to show you that but I didn't know
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I wasn't there sometimes we hear of
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these people
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right so that if
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anything is weakness but to say no I
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will overcome this I will learn to want
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what is happening to me and I will learn
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to live with it I will learn to even
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like it and to draw Advantage from it
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because we talked about earlier in every
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disadvantage there's an advantage and in
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every Advantage there's a disadvantage
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but again when we Face these so-called
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bad things negative things in our
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lives if we learn to not only accept
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it but to love it to see it as something
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that is happening to us
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and that we should not just wish to be
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over and done with it but that we can
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draw an experience from it a lesson from
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it an advantage from it and to become
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better through
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it what what better thing is there I
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forget who said this now but the the
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quote goes something like
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this I step on to my Misfortune and as a
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result I stand taller and that's that's
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exactly what it is life throws us all
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kinds of things we are the ones that
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label them as good or bad but what if we
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labeled even the so-called bad things as
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good things because we've learned how to
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turn them into our
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advantage what if we could become better
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through all the so-called good things
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and also through all the so-called bad
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things wouldn't life be not only
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infinitely be worth more living but
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also would it not be a much better
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life even though we're so-called
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surrendering to these things even though
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we're so-called submitting to
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them if you try to fight something as
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big as a depression an econ economical
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downturn and your financial
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loss or if you try to find fight disease
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illness death in yourself or in
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others you will lose that
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battle and you will break
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yourself but if you are more bending
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more flexible if you adapt to the will
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of
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Fortune if you will to will what God
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Wills what life Wills what the universe
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Wills the word does the word God doesn't
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matter you can replace it with the
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universe or or life or whatever you
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want but if you learn learn how to do
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this your suffering will stop
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immediately and everything will become
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easier and another thing is realize that
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every time you're battling something
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every time you're fighting
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something you wish to be out of that
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situation as quickly as possible a
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battle a fight a struggle is not
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something we want to be in so we always
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look for the future for release for
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relief but not only will that future
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never come because with that mentality
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there was always there will always be a
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battle battle there will always be a
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fight there will always something
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so-called negative and bad happening in
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your
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life and another fact is that we only
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inhabit the Pres the present the the
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future is not here
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yet and the past is
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gone so it's just a simple fact that
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we're only Moment by moment living in
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those very moments
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and anyone who battles or fights or is
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in the middle of a war cannot inhabit
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the present because they don't want to
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be in the present they want to do what
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they need to do get over their
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struggle and live a happy life
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afterwards
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maybe but they never get
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there and that's another thing that
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surrendering allows you when you try
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this in in every situation from now on
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that you think is a bad situation that
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you think is a a negative situation try
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this just accept the situation as what
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it needs to be in fact want what is
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happening to you
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currently if you start doing that you
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will look around for opportunities to
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advance yourself instead of for
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opportunities to exit
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it this could be as simple as going to
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the DMV and and having to wait in line
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for hours it's a perfect example even
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though it's very small of
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course when we wait in a line like that
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we just want to get do what we're there
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to do get it over with as quickly as
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possible and we're agitated the whole
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time
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through we never stop to think and look
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around but if you accept the situation
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if you say the line is what it is it's
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bigger than I am if I fight something
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that is bigger than I am I will lose
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but ironically it seems if I surrender
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to what is bigger than I am to what is
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stronger than I am then I win because I
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start inhabiting the only place in life
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that I could possibly inhabit and that's
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the present that's the
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now so when I Surrender when I accept
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the
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situation when I even want the situation
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to occur exactly as it is occurring
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right this instant
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then all of a sudden I inhabit the
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present I inhabit the room that I am
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that I'm in I look around I see things I
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see opportunities maybe I can relieve
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someone else's stress maybe I can put a
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smile on my face and and make someone
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else realize this is not that big of a
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deal that we waste Moment by
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moment the only moment that we
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have look around for opportunities want
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what you're going through because if you
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start want wanting what you're going
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through you start living and as long as
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you're fighting
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battling and hating your current
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situation the current place you're
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in then you're not
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living and if you never start living you
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will nevertheless die without ever
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having
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lived all right so these are just couple
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of things I would like you to think
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about it's one of the biggest keys to
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happiness and it's also one of the
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biggest keys to
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understanding every thought every school
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of thought that has ever existed in
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including religions philosophies
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everyone who is after in terms of again
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a school of thought or religion everyone
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who is after the truth in an objective
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and open-minded
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Way Comes to these ideas and that's why
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we call them Universal and
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Timeless and we find them everywhere
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so I I would recommend you to read read
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Master eart if you sort of want to dive
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into that if you're a Christian
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certainly you should but even if you're
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not maybe you want to see how these
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Timeless and Universal ideas regardless
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of religion regardless of school of
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thought regardless of who the person is
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if they are that kind of person who is
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looking for meaning in life nevertheless
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comes to the same ideas it's very
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interesting all right and then I also
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have a little bit of an announcement for
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those who are still watching at the end
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of this
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video um I thought it'd be maybe fun to
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do a live
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stream um answer some questions just
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just have a chat
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live and um in that live stream I think
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I'm also going to have an announcement
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or two for you about the the future
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of the work we want to do here of the
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work that we can do here
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possibly and that um some maybe bigger
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things are
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coming and uh it also just give me an
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opportunity to or us an opportunity to
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reflect together of the sort of Journey
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we've been on right um a lot of people
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have joined I'm sort of I'm a little bit
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amazed at at how many there are now in
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terms of
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subscribers and so we'll just have a
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little chat have a couple announcements
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answer a couple of questions and just
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have a good time I'm
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thinking I'll still announce this in a
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in a community post but I'm
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thinking
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Sunday at uh 11: a.m. Central
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Time might be a good time to do
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it but I'll still announce it look out
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for that
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and I hope we'll have a good time and
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I'll I'll see you then
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