Awakening Traps to Avoid

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Think concerns a lot of people these days, and not
talking about it, not going into the details of it,
might cause confusion, isolation, and loneliness, all of the things
that we actually don't really need. But the awakening, you know,

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an clearly overused word by now, but it's overused, I
think because there's hardly any other word that describes so
beautifully what is happening to many people. And before we
go into the five big awakening traps that almost everyone experiences,
so no judgment, but it helps to see the pitfalls

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before we go into that. I just want to quickly
say what, in my perception awakening really means. It is
truly the coming to awareness that we are much more
more than we were programmed and made believe to be.

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And as a reflection of that, that this realm and
everything we experience, that there's so much more to this
and beyond than we were led to believe in programmed
to believe. So I think, you know, in general terms,
that's what awakening means. But let's look at some of
the biggest pitfalls here, and some of the biggest traps
maybe that people could fall into while going through this.

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Let's see where this is here we go. Pardon me,
it's not quite there. You go, there, we have it.
So the first one, and this is something that we
discuss often with people when we have this conversation, is
that waking up means life gets easier. It's sort of,
you know, a misunderstood concept. But the reality is that

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awakening often begins with discomfort, not bliss. It's the collapse
of illusions, materialism, false stories, identities, belief systems, and that
can feel like grief, loss, or chaos. The real ease
comes later through coherence. So there's this awakening usually happens

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in two stages, depending on which comes first, can be either.
But for some people have the experience of you know,
the spiritual experience where they just through something or someone
all of a sudden have the feeling that there's so
much more to them than the body and their mind,
you know, there's just so much more, all of a sudden,

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more intuition, a greater expansion, or they look at the world,
you know, and they dig deeper and they go down
the rabbit holes. And that is a legitimate kind of awakening.
And the first inclination is that hey, now that we
know more of the truth, clearly things must get easier,

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and that's usually not the case, because it's like you
are waking up not only to the confusion outside or
to the case outside, you're also waking up to all
kinds of chaos, programming, fear, programming, lack programming, self destruction, programming,
all the programs of our world and what we were taught.

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So I would say that rather than coming or going
into this with the expectation that things are going to
get easier, think of it as with every day. You
are better equipped, You are in a better state, you
have more tools to navigate the waters. So life or

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the world or things might not necessarily get easier right away,
but you are better equipped to go through it, and
you can see the illusions for what they are, which
is very valuable. Right. I'm often looking around me and
how people fall apart with a small challenge, and clearly

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it's because of all these limited beliefs that they're program
run with, and the waking up and the awakening literally
helps you see that and see the bigger picture, and
you know it's just one challenge in the now. It's
not something that lasts forever, and it isn't the big
thing that the world makes it out to be, So
you know, that's one of the traps. However, caveat here

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is that the longer that you're in it, the more
that you expand, the more coherence happens inside of you.
So you see, then your hearter, spirit, your mind, your
thoughts begin to align more, not always, but most of
the time, and that makes you a much more powerful
co creator in this realm, which means you're actually starting

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to create the things that you want in your life,
more of them anyways, and that makes life become definitely easier.
The second trap is once you're awake, you're always awake.
The reality is awakening is not a one time event.
It's a process. There are layers, many awakened to one

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truth but not to others. You can be awake to spirituality,
but be asleep to social programming or vice versa. So
I really don't even want to use the term awake
because we're hopefully all in the process of becoming. And
the truth is also that there is always so much

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more to know. So awakening to me is the commitment.
It's a commitment to not fall for the trap where
we go. Oh, now I understand how this all works.
I got it, I know it all. I know the deception,
I know the conspiracy, I know the who, the where,
the when. I'm fully aware now. And that usually only

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means that you stop right, that you put a halt
to it. And that's sort of a human almost a
human natural reaction. We sort of crave certainty, and in
that we sort of need things to be a solid,
unshakable truth. And the truth is that as we are

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continually expanding and raising our consciousness and becoming more aware
of things, that we also know that there are more layers.
Even behind what we thought was the end of the story,
there's usually another layer two or three, or four we
simply don't know. And committing to that certainty makes you
sort of puts you in a stale position. You're just

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not moving forward any longer. So I would say that
there is no such thing as awake, but there is
such a thing as continually awakening. And it's a beautiful
thing when we allow ourselves to continually explore further rather
than settle on the truth. Like I said, our necessity
for certainty makes it so. So once again, what can

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we be certain? Off we can be certain of our
ability to continually awake. You know, that's a beautiful thing
to be certain of. We can be certain of our
own intentions, directions, and actions, so we can have these certainties.
But once we go to this is certainly what the

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truth is. You know, this is who's to blame, and
this is who's innocent. This is the perpetrator. This the
victim story gets very confusing. So commit to the process
of awakening rather than thinking you got it now. I've
not met anyone who fits that description, by the way,
and those who are usually expanding more and more are

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the ones who realize this. The third one also big ones,
especially if you're new to this process, which I want
to say a big wave hit a lot of people
at the end of twenty nineteen and throughout twenty twenty.
That was a big awakening wave, and there was this clearly,
now that I can see certain things, everyone else must

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be able to see them too. The reality is awakening
is often an isolating journey. Family and friends may reject
your new awareness, but it isn't a sign to stop.
This is your path to freedom, integrity, sovereignty, truth, and
you can't measure it by how many people think the
same way you do, or how many people are willing

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to do the same things you're willing to do. Community
is really something that is built from new states of awareness.
In the awakening journey, it becomes more and more isolating,
even if groups of people go through similar experiences. Most
people just are looking for a bigger box. Let me

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explain this. Everybody is used to boxes. You know, I
belong to this religion, this political party, this culture, this ethnicity,
this sports team, this music genre, whatever. Everybody has these identities,
and once they can see that their current identity box
is too small for who they are becoming, most people

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are not really willing to release themselves from identity boxes altogether.
They're just looking for a bigger box, and so when
they find it, they sort of are looking for their
group there. They're looking for their mascots, their flags, their everything,
and then they stay there. But the true seeker and
the true awakener, if you will, simply isn't satisfy and

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fulfilled with that any longer. It's a continuing journey. And
you notice really quick that no matter how big the box,
you don't fit in it, because ultimately your true being
is unlimited. It doesn't know any boundaries. It can spread
into infinity, your true being can, and so you don't

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feel comfortable in boxes any longer. So we must acknowledge
that the majority, at least historically speaking, the majority of
people is not going to be on the same journey
as you are. Folks are programmed very much, so we
don't even know if the majority of people has the
capability of going beyond it. They just simply might be

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backdrop people NPCs, non player characters, and they have their
role in this reality, running the program through their avatars.
That's it, you know. Sometimes, and this is more frustrating,
we can feel the spark in our relatives and our friends.

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We know it's there, but they want to push it down,
push it down, don't acknowledge it. That can be frustrating,
And one of the most frustrating things is to try
to hold on to those people and try to keep
it all up, long, long, beyond the expiration date of
that friendship or relationship. And the truth is that if

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you continually rise and someone say stagnant, there's only so
much overlap here. But the more you rise, and this
is not by the way, something like it makes you better,
but the more you expand and rise, the less you'll
have in common with that person, and said, it gets
harder and harder, and that is simply a choice people

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need to make. Do I want to stay here or
do I want to continually expand? Right? But the truth
is that the expectation that others around us will also
see things that we see and perceive the truth and
be able to finally open their eyes to the things

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that are so obvious. Frankly, as much as this was
my hope, I've simply not seen any evidence of it. Clearly,
the number of people today versus fifteen twenty years ago
is a lot bigger. The number of people willing to

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do that. Our reality has shifted enough. Also, the media,
the new media, if you will, gives people more access
to other information than mainstream but it is and remains
an inner choice for people to do that, and most
simply don't want to, and they will not want to

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understand you. And there's this. The last piece of this
is really that people are holding onto their comfort zones. Right,
So that's where the cognitive dissonance comes in. You might
think that if you just show them enough evidence, they
will clearly see the truth, but they you must understand

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that they're a hypnotic in a programmed state, so the
evidence doesn't mean anything to them. What is more real
for them is that most people believe what they believe,
and that makes it real. And if only a few
people believe something else, even if they have the evidence
on their side, it doesn't really mean much. So it

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is an uphill battle. And the truth is you can't
wake up anyone. You can only be the person you are.
Continually shine your light, continually expand as you do. And
those who will get inspired by this, you know their
journey will be unstoppable, just as yours and all the others.

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You know, it's their choice. It's it's all a free
will thing. Here another big one. This is a big
triggering one. Awakening is all about light and positivity. That's
the that's the love and Light Brigade as I call them.
But the reality is you must face darkness within and without.

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Awakening is a spiritual awakening isn't spiritual bypassing? That's sotant
we're gonna get into in the moment. It includes shadow work,
inner alchemy, encouraged to see the truth even when it's ugly.
The light comes by going through the dark, not avoiding it.
This is one of the this is one of the best,

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the best created psychological operations in the entire spiritual truth
freedom awakening community, if you will, is that there's this
body of teachers and knowledge and books and movies and
channels out there that are literally guilting and shaming people

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into only focus on positive thoughts, and they define what
that means by the way they define what that positivity
and what that light means. And it is neither authentic,
nor is it truthful, nor is it honest all the
things that we need in the awakening journey. So then
you know, when people listen to them and get programmed

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by them and almost hypnotized, they use all the spiritual
practices and tools that they gathered, some of which are
really good, to not strengthen their spirit, not strengthen their
resolve to go through whatever needs to be gone through,
but to try to go around it. Right, I'm not
going to look at this. If I don't look at it,

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it's not real and it will go away. And that's
just not how it works. That is a huge, huge lie,
and it is a lie created by ultimately, of course,
the enemy that wants you in that state. And what
happens to those people is they create a fear feedback loop.
They're so afraid of looking at those negative things that

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by their energetic state of trying to avoid them, what
do they do. They ultimately attract them. Right, that's interesting
because what you really want to avoid, there's almost a
magnetic force to that thing. So they see more of
it and they need to build bigger walls. Not real
just how much they're isolating their spirit from truth and authenticity.

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And the truth about this really is that our natural
state of being does not require constant positive thinking. It
doesn't require our reminder to be the light. Our natural
state of being is that. So what we do is
we start by looking at the truth, accepting it, and

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then transmuting it into For example, if you think about
all the pains that you might have experienced in your life,
the hurt, the rejections, or the abuse, when you try
to pretend it didn't happen, that just becomes a bigger
problem throughout life. When you're willing to finally accept that

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it happened, look at it, and oftentimes that requires help,
by the way, But when you're willing to do that,
you're actually willing to go through it ultimately, once and
for all, once and for all, and you can then
use the strength that this gives you to move forward
in a much lighter and better and unburdened way. So

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it's always through it. It's never arounded above it or
below it. It's always through it. But this is what
a lot of people in this greater community will tell you.
Only focus on the light, only focus on the positive.
But what is positive? There's no greater positive to the truth.
Now do we linger and do we just stick around,

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and do we just not ever try to get through
it but just observe it? Well, that can be very troublesome.
But the truth is everything that we wish to transcend
in our own lives or collectively, we must go through,
acknowledge it, and find the real solution. And that can
only be found when we define a problem correctly. So

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this is true spiritual maturity. And I've never met anyone
who has reached a certain level of consciousness or awareness
who isn't fully committed to the truth. That's a powerful thing.
The fifth and one of the biggest traps in the

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awakening journey that I've seen is now you know, there's
all this energy from this awakening process. You see all
the truths around you. Oh my goodness, something big, something huge,
must happen, you know. The reality is the idea that
awakening leads to an instant global shift can become a trap.
Many expect the five d ascension solar flashes, earth shattering

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events to follow their own awakening, but this expectation often
delays real lasting transformation. Awakening is not about waiting for
the world to change. It's about changing your world moment
by moment. And the interesting thing is that every generation,
if you look back into those who were awakening, maybe

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in the early nineteen hundreds, even late eighteen hundreds, and
of course there were previous periods, almost every period had
their moment where they thought, clearly, something earth shattering now
must happen. Because see, when you can see something so
clearly which you couldn't see before, it's only natural to

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think that the world now must shift. But the truth is,
having been in this pretty much all my life, it
doesn't work that way. Yes, shifts to happen, but they're subtle,
they are sometimes more localized, they take time to take rude,
and they're not these huge events. But what this does,

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and it's also a narrative. It's a narrative that's out there,
a very persistent one. You know, the big thing is
going to happen. Whether that's on the more political, uh
you know, conspiracy side, it's, oh, the white hats will
have all these arrests or they already had them, get
moqu Trump musk all that, or whether it's more on

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the spiritual side, that we will have the solar flash,
the big solar event, or the geophysical event, or the
reset or the five D ascension or a combination of
these things. And while I'm not saying that there isn't
a truth to certain certain projections and outlooks into the future,

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it keeps people from actually doing the work. And awakening
is the commitment to consistent, active work, right, it's you know,
you're shedding skin, you're shedding layers, and that requires like
a clear intention. But there's a lot of people who

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are in the waiting stages. You know, have friends who
every time we would meet up, they would say, what
do you think is going to happen in the next
month or two? You know, you know sort of is
it the rapture? Is it the revelation, is it a
part of it? And it was like observing how it
kept them from doing certain things, or making certain decisions

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or simply living life. And that is neither healthy nor
is it good. Because here's the thing. Ultimately, do you
think that you can affect this big event? If it
is that inevitable? Wouldn't it make more sense for you
to continually show up for yourself and show up every

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day and in the process help many others. Wouldn't it
make more sense for you to commit to your own journey.
You're healing, your expansion, doing what's really in your heart,
knowing what you came here to do, rather than waiting
for some external event Jesus, the solar flash and all
the other stuff that's out there, and just focusing on

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preparation for that. That puts you in a waiting position.
It puts and people spend fifteen twenty thirty years in
those waiting positions. Like I said, every group has their
sort of their big event that they believe will come soon.
And it was in the sixties, it was in the seventies,

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it was through the eighties. It was the UFO arrival.
It's the disclosure. Something is always there something is always
sioped into our reality that keeps us more passive than active.
And this is what these siops are really supposed to do.
They're supposed to capture your attention and keep it on

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these Supposedly it's very very soon, you know, happening events
rather than focusing on your own journey. On the flip
side of this, so those who see through that are
very much ahead of the curve, if you will, because
they just keep showing up and then they get their

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own clear intuition whether there's some preparation that they need
to take or whether there's really something around the corner
that might affect them. But then it isn't in an
anticipation mode. It's just oh, I got this intuition, I'm
going to act on it. I'm going to take care
of these things and move on. So you know, there's
many more small traps, but these are sort of the

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bigger ones that almost everyone goes through, by the way,
So you know, if you think, oh my goodness, I
fell for it, everyone does. Come on, we're we're all human.
We have a certain program that runs through us, a
certain way we were programmed to think, and so don't
give yourself a hard time about it, but be honest
with yourself. Oh that's me. I can now make a

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different choice. This is really what spiritual maturity to me
is about. It's acknowledging that we have, you know, had
maybe erroneous ways of thinking, and now we're shifting. Now
we are literally repenting in the non religious sense where
we acknowledge, Oh you know, I was maybe wrong about this,

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But here I am changing my heart, changing my mind,
changing my direction. And that really is what a continual
awakening is about. Also, think about it this way. You
cannot see what you're not ready to see. So sometimes

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we're sort of puzzled, you know how something could have
been right in front of us for years and we
couldn't see it, a truth that was so obvious now,
but we couldn't see it until then. And it's sort
of like your sight, literally, your sight and your spiritual

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sight keeps improving and expanding. So one thing that might
have been in your reality all along, you couldn't see
because you weren't ready to see it. It's kind of
like for those of you who take the same path,
maybe you take the same road to work, to school,
whatever you wouldn't driving down a road for many years

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and for some reason, until one day you never saw
that one building, or that one billboard, or that one
something that clearly was always there, You just couldn't see it.
It's the same thing with the truth. You know, we
cannot rush these layers. We have to walk through them.
We have to do the processing and then be ready

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for the next layer. And that goes for all of us.
So even if someone were to sit down with you
and sort of lay out the full truth for you,
wouldn't matter. You couldn't really do anything with it because
chances are you couldn't yet grasp the fullness of it.
That's how it goes for almost all of us. The
key issue, or the key point is is a journey.

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It's not a destination. It's not I arrived today. It's
a continual process and it's a rewarding one. And you know,
the when gets when does life get easier? When does
it feel better? Well, the more that we awaken, the
higher our standards and principles also become. See, as long

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as we're ignorant of something, it's sort of easy to
break one of those principles. But once we're not ignorant,
any longer, it's hard to do, and sort of the consequences,
the inner consequences are bigger. In other words, we live
a more self responsible and self regulating life, and that

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in and of itself is much more than most people
can say. Most people live by the rules if you know,
and whatever the rules are, they will obey them as
much as they need to get by. But a life
that where you see truth and you see reality for
what it is or more of it, that puts your

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standards are much higher now. So yes, in a sense,
life becomes easier because you know it doesn't begin here,
it doesn't end here. You're not this body, you're not
this mind. Your fear of death begins to subside. Your
attachments begin to soften. Your attachments to this physical world
and things and even people. You love them, but you're

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not clinging. You're not attached to them any longer. You
love them for who they are, and you know that
your journey with them is ultimately an infinite one. Right, So,
in that sense, life gets easier, But in terms of
being in the matrix, that gets harder because you're still

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in this world. You still see mainstream society, you still
see all of that happening, but you're now much clearer
about what this really is. That gets harder. So you
choose more, You decide whether you want to, you know,
expose yourself to certain things. You're probably going to be
more picky with where you go to, who you spend

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time with, going into big crowds, malls, concerts, festival stuff
like that. That all becomes more challenging. And I don't
know for the foreseeable future if that's going to change,
But that's just a part of it. And I'm I'm
I for one, I don't believe in what some people

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talk about. It's also rosy and beautiful and unicorny and
rainbow not at all. But it's also not dark and
gloomy and just bad. It's just a truth. And if
you follow that principle, the principle of truth, you are
on the best possible path you could be. And that's
to me what awakening ultimately means. So yeah, my friends,

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thank you for joining us, Thank you for being here
with us again today,