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...Right? Be aware of that.

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So when you're doing it,

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when you're not conscious about it,

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what you're doing is you're grasping it.

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Your deep insides are saying, 
"I hate this."

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Very quietly, but "I hate."

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But if you're conscious of it, 
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you look at a famous person,

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you look at them from a place 
of openness.

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You have to look at the image,

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because the image is where you're storing 
that information and emotion.

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You look, but you're trying to look 
from a different place

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You're reprogramming it
you're restructuring it.

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You are healing the relationship.

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So if you look with that openness 
to that same image,

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At some point that image will 
have different meaning for you.

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It will not carry the same meaning.

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If you look at it in your own body,

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if you look at it in your health, 
probably the same thing

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You know, wherever the cells are in 
your body

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producing a kind of disease, 
like a cancerous cell,

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if you look at that, if you're being 
aware of that in your body

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aware of yourself, the whole aspect of 
yourself,

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it will begin to give different 
information to the rest of your body.

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And therefore, that information 
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your biological conditions.

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It is what we believe, how to understand it's going to happen to the body.

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Reproduction of cells, like cancerous 
cells, the same principle.

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That's how the cancerous cell knows how 
to reproduce the cancerous cell.

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It will do wonderful thing if it 
forgets one day.

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And it's producing some new cell.

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Probably that's what happens 
if the deep pattern of identity

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it shifts something inside you

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It shifts what it brings in the body.

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So the principle here is

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the power of openness and awareness 
is able to change things

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in our body, able to change the way 
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it's able to change the way we relate 
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it's able to change everything.

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That's why it's called vision, it's able to 
cut those things.

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So that's a bit of explanation.

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Any questions?

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I'm happy to see that many European 
people are staying up really late.

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They are participating with us.

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So any questions?

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Do you think that in openness, there's a 
possibility to maintain curiosity?

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Curiosity? Yeah, and there is some degree
of curiosity in ourselves.

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And there's also curiosity on some 
survival level, you know

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I'm curious to know what I need, and 
so on.

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Curiosity has a lot of playfulness,

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and you cannot have playfulness

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if you're not open to it.

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What we use, what we say, 
we are serious.

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That's what happens in a relationship, 
when people are very serious

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in a relationship, that is the beginning 
of divorce.

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[laughs]

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They are curious about each other? Yes. 
Too curious about each other.

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They are not that curious, they are very 
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that doesn't mean 
loyalty and things like that.

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There's some sort of sense of openness

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and that brings a lot of playfulness.

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I was in a place in a country
where people are usually serious,

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and I was making a little joke, saying,

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"How are you going to be a little more 
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So how are you going to be a little 
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first thing, you kind of have to go 
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seriousness is stuck. You have to go 
to that place inside and loosen that up.

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You have to feel some confidence.

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I think that confidence is clearly a key
to be playful.

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So if you're confident that you can be a
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can have humor, and you can have 
curiosity in a good way.

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If whatever you're curious about is 
not showing up, you're curious

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why it's not showing up!

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Rather than feeling pain that it's not 
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You're open to every direction.

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So yes, I don't think openness prevents 
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Openness makes life richer not poorer.

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Openness is the source of knowledge, more
than the knowledge we conceptually know.

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There was a study in Netherlands about these

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executive people making big 
decisions about a big company.

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The research was based on, did they make a
better decision when they're taught alot?

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Or did they make a better decision when 
they didn't think much?

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The conclusion was, they made a much 
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they didn't think much.

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So of course, people who think a lot,

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they believe we have to think.

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we have to think to not to think.

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But, some sense of these practices call 
for a direct path.

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Direct path means you don't have 
to think about it.

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You can just be aware of it.

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Any other questions?

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We have a group of people in Brazil 
who we've met with before,

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they're asking, "Please, what do you mean 
by the essence of sky?"

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[laughs]

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[he repeats the question.]

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First, when I say essence, the sense 
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the truth of the sky, the truth of the 
phenomena, the truth of the mind.

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So in some sense, the essence of sky I 
mean, the truth of the sky.

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So what is the truth of the sky?

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It's that boundlessness. When I'm gazing 
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of that boundlessness, because the sky
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When I'm aware of that, it's something
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Psychologically it does something to me 
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I feel that boundlessness.

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But when I'm looking at the sky I have 
to be aware that that's what I'm feeling.

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That's what I'm seeing, that's what I'm
experiencing, that's what I'm aware of.

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Very often people will not be aware
of it.

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I gave one example where people were 
doing a sky gazing practice in New Mexico.

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Everybody was having this wonderful 
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But one guy was getting really agitated 
about it. He looked around,

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and it seemed like everyone seems 
like they were having a good time.

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He's wondering why they're having a good
time and he's looking up at the empty sky

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And he said, "What am I supposed to see?"

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Well, he's not seeing the essence of the 
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He's not seeing the boundlessness of 
the sky.

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He's expecting some stuff to show up 
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what he would desire.

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So that's what I mean.

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I saw a cartoon in New York Times
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there was this wall street person, 
and he's in Tibet with all the

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hiking shoes and all those things, and 
really getting up in the mountain.

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And on top of the mountain he sees 
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Not with the hiking shoes. He sees 
himself with the suit and tie

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and breathless with this pure vision.

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So, no matter where you go, you might 
see your impure visions

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you're not even able to see what you're 
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You're only seeing what you're wanting 
to see.

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[asking question] This is somewhat 
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Kelly is in Vietnam right now, and she's
watching the broadcast.

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She says, "Here in Vietnam I'm more 
lonely than I was even in the dark retreat

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Everything truly appears to be illusion.

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How can I keep myself connected when
there are so few supports?"

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It seems like she's in a place where she's
lacking support.

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Sure. Well, you know,

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the opportunity for you to be 
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lonely person in you.

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So that basically means what we were 
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"It really hurts me. I really feel lonely,
I really feel lonely."

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And probably that sense of loneliness, 
probably everybody feels it.

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At some times we have to go so 
far away to feel it really strong.

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So when you feel it really strong, 
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to know that.

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And to know that will be fully open 
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and when you're fully open to that, 
it will go away.

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When it goes away, the voice saying, 
"I'm lonely," and the energy

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bringing a sense of loneliness, and the
one who's thinking, "I'm far away,"

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Out of all those voices and cards and the 
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all those somehow are like a cloud.

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The way you let them go away is by being 
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Connect with them, so it's like a loving 
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napping child. So radiate the love and 
attention with your open awareness

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to that lonely experience in yourself.

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That awareness, when you open to that, 
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you come to a place where you don't 
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So you need to become familiar with that 
place where you don't feel familiar.

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The question is, how do you get to that 
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"it's okay." So that's what I was saying 
earlier that pain body.

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The principle is the same.

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And we all, right now with the internet, 
you're not lonely, you know?

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Everybody's together. Yes?

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[questioner:] Could you comment on the 
role of medical diagnosis

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when one experiences certain aches 
and pains? Does seeking that

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diagnostic action from a Western medical 
practitioner, is that a way of

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staying attached to the story of the pain 
rather than being with it

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and allowing it to disappear?

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Well, I think in the West, all the doctors
are trained to tell some sense of truth.

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So people say, "Okay you only have five
months to live," or something like that.

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So if somebody has 5 months to live, 
do they really need to know that?

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I mean, how important is it for a doctor 
to tell you you have 5 months to live?

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From my point of view, I don't think it's 
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If you have some suggestion about what 
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so somehow the way people...

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bring this kind of energy, there's a sense
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compassion, but maybe it feels like 
a lack of compassion and attention

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because there's so much time pressure
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So, the point is, when somebody labels
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or "now I am this," I think it's terrible
for sure.

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So how you don't do that? Again, 
You have to try to be open.

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If you're not identifying with being 
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why do you have to identify with being
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You're sick maybe, but you don't have to 
identify with that.

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You know, last moment of breath for a woman,

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you can live with full sense of joy, 
no matter how sick you are

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or how much pain you have, that awareness,
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it doesn't take away. But again, the point
is how we can feel confidence

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to know that is the case. To even attempt
to try,

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that have glimpse of experience. 


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It's true, and people do have those trusts
in themselves to not be influenced

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by those labels. For sure it's a challenge

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The question is practice.