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Welcome to the Subconscious Mind Mastery

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Podcast on our Sunday series.

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Thomas Miller, I'm glad you're here. We're

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going to talk about a principle or

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a concept that I rediscovered

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here this past week and I

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can't believe it got off my radar because

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it is so valuable and so

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important. I was re-listening

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to the audio program Pilgrim

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of the Heart, which is by Krishna Das,

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aka Jeffrey Cagle, aka

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one of the original founding

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members of the band the Blue Oyster

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Cult, who threw all the rock and

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roll lifestyle away to go to India

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in pursuit of the same guru

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that Steve Jobs saw and

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that Ram Dass found, Neem

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Karoli Baba. And Pilgrim

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of the Heart is his story of becoming

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acquainted with Ram Dass, leaving

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everything, going to India, what

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all happened there, and then coming back

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and actually being lost and

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going back into drugs and really

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having a hard time after he left the

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safety of working with this incredibly

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powerful guru.

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And then he found his path.

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He found his way out. He found

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it for himself, not from all

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the influences and inspirations

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and going on that were happening

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in India. It was his and it was

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real. And I had forgotten also that

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in the setup of it, he talked about that

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we all pop at different times,

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just like popcorn. Pop, pop, pop.

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We all have our moments that cause

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us to pop spiritually.

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And you know, some people can pop and

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they just take off on a path and a course

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and it's great and they do the work and on

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the way they go. And then some of us

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choose the path of hitting rock bottom.

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And I know that some people find

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this podcast who have hit bottom

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and they're trying to find their way back out just

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like I was. But I also know that a

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lot of people.

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have been prevented from hitting

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that bottom because you can

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make choices along the way to

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make the changes that life itself

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is trying to point you toward. If

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you haven't heard that program, it's all over all

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the audio places that you find everything

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else, Apple, Spotify, Pandora, and

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it's from sounds true if you wanted to go

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that route. But I'm going to be a spoiler

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because I want to tell you the ending. The

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ending is very powerful and told

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by Krishna Das. It's wonderful

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because it was kind of the culmination

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of his lesson from his story. But

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it's a very valuable point that

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we all need to take time periodically

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to stop and think about. And that's

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why I thought we might do a longer meditation

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with more music today. But

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the point of the whole thing became

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as all these people were going

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over to India during the late 60s

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and early 70s when NIM KUROLI BABHA

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was so popular and alive

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was that everybody wanted to

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pursue the Guru, the Baba,

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the teacher. They thought that by sitting

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in his presence, they would become enlightened.

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And he certainly had gifts and they were discussed

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in some of them were discussed in the program, how

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he hold a train from proceeding from

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going it's a cool story. Oh, that we

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all could do that. But

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that would be hilarious. But everybody

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was in pursuit of the Guru. And

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we do, we hold our teachers high.

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You know my regard for Fred Dodson. His

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work helped change my life. But

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he's not my Guru. He didn't tell me

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a path to go on. I listened

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to some of the teachings and I chose

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the path. And that's where this audio

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program points. The bottom

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line lesson is the path

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of life itself is

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our teacher. Life

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is our Guru. Our

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experiences are pointing

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us to what we came here to learn. Our

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very own.

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The life path

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itself is our Teacher. Think

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about it. All the challenges,

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all the failures, all the high points,

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all the successes, all

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the wish that I could have dot, dot,

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dots, all the times we wished

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we had turned left when we turned right,

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all of it is our Teacher, our

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Guru, the One pointing

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us on our life path. It's

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all inside of us. And

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that's the point of the lesson. You could

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travel to the other side of the world to

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try to find what is right there within

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you. And then as I

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was thinking about this for today, something

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became so crystal clear, is

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that this very thing, this

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awareness that the path itself

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is our Teacher, is

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probably the pinnacle of highest

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conscious awareness on Earth. In

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other words, if we understand that,

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then we understand consciousness

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and God and the process itself,

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because we are combining the infinite,

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the finite, and the path

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as our infinite Teacher. And

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think about what that makes decisions for

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us like. It's like every decision

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that we make, whether it's a

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big one, like do we marry, do

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we move, do we take this job? We

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don't go on those paths until we

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make a choice, we make a decision, and

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that decision itself then becomes

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part of the lesson, part of the Teacher. So

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even our choices themselves, as

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big or small as they may seem, especially

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when they alter life's direction, become

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a really big deal in the whole big picture.

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But if we grasp this, we tend

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to think of the lesson itself as

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the Teacher. But we wouldn't have the situation

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for the lesson if we didn't make the choice

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to get there. So when you walk it back,

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it really is a big deal. these decisions that

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become the guru, the vehicle,

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the teacher, the portal. Then

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I thought about this, that often

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we really don't stop to think about

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the journey as our teacher.

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We think about it as our path, am I aligned with my

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path? But really we are seeing

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it more from the present moment. We are

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trying to analyze where we are now, is

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that on our path? Rather

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than seeing it as the collective accumulation

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of lessons over the course of our life.

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And because we don't see it in the context of

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the big macro picture, we tend

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to react to the present. When

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the very present is trying to

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teach us the lessons, wow! I

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hope you get the depth of this, that there

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really is some reframing that we can

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do here. When we have a present

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moment decision, a present moment

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choice, we can choose to go

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to the right or to go to the left. We

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get caught up in all of the minutia

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of the decision itself. But

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now we start thinking about the whole

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process as part of our

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infinite source teacher. To me

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that would take the resistance out of it really,

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really fast. In other words, it's

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not about the pluses and the minuses and the

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should eyes and the muscle testing and all of

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that. It's about what lessons am

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I getting from this right now? Soul

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path lessons that my soul

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grows from this silly little

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decision that's in front of me is

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actually a really big soul based

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deal. Then it's not so

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much about the decision or the outcome

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or the results, etc. It's

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about capturing the essence of the

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very moment of decision itself,

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being in our most conscious awareness.

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Wow! So

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I thought, let's just take some time

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to first go back and

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look at some of the big, high watermarks

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of our lives. I'm

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going to intervene less and play

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a lot more music. But first,

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I thought it would be good to

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get a context of this. Maybe

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you've done this work and this is more

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of a review, but it's a good thing to do. What

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are some of the biggest challenges

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and what are some of the biggest victories you've

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had in your life? Do the challenges first

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because then you'll be offsetting them with the victories.

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What are some of the bigger, high

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watermarks on both sides in your life?

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Thank you. Thank

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you. you Spirit

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If you have a journal, you could spend a few

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minutes thinking about that relative

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to where you are in your

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path, what

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obvious lessons are still left. If

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you could change anything, what would you change?

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Just bring it all forward to today. Maybe

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even give yourself a score. How am I really

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doing here? Not so

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bad? Made the changes?

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Still have a lot to go wherever

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you are. You

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Then I think the third part of this that's

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a natural is to game film what

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you're going to do next time you have a major

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decision. So

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when there's a crossroads whether

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it's maybe a conversation at work

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with your partner, maybe

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it's an obvious change where

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something happened completely out of left field,

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now you have to switch courses

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unexpectedly maybe. How

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are you going to frame that decision

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in the context of being at the pinnacle

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of your conscious awareness? In

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other words, are you going to be focused as

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much on the outcome of the result

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of your decision or are you going to

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be more focused on the process of

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the spiritual part of your decision?

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Thinking of those inner qualities as

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more important criteria than

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the external ones. Maybe

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an example, somebody puts

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their home up for sale, they

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get an offer. It's not as

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high as they had hoped. They

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start to negotiate and decisions

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have to be made along the way. Do

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I even counter? How much? How

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much is it going to cost to close? What

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are the commissions? How much am I going to

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get out of this? Ooh, that's

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less than I thought. And

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all of a sudden you're faced with your money

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paradigm. Are

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you thinking about that in the course

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and context of this decision? So

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all of a sudden it doesn't become an

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issue of personal business matter, let's

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say, X price versus Y

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price. It becomes

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a How am I with this money?

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And how am I without the money that the offer

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is below? What is money to

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me? Is it an energy? Can

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it be created? And

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can it be exchanged? And

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if those were more important criteria,

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how would that affect the decision of how

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much to accept for your property? Puts

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it on a whole different plane, doesn't it? And

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it's a lot of work to accept when you bring that in to

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every decision. So

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think about, as we close, how

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you will do that in the future. I

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leave you with more music, and

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of course the invitation to, especially

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now, enjoy the journey. Thanks

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for listening. I'm Thomas Miller. www.thomasmiller.com

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