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When you step back far enough, away from yourself, meaning all of your thoughts and your emotions are not focused on this tiny little

thing called you, certain things become crystal clear. For example, you are given a phenomenal

gift. It didn't cost you anything and is the greatest gift that could ever be given.

You were given the time between your birth and your death.

Not to me what happens during that time, but you were given the time between your birth and your death.

Was it given to anybody else?

They can try and take it.

All kinds of things can go on.

But it's yours.

And that's a very important way to look at it.

Don't ever feel you being controlled.

They never feel you're not a free will.

It's your time.

That's all.

Now, the question becomes, what is going to go on during that time?

And that's when it gets interesting. Because what goes on during that time, believe it or not, is still completely in your control.

It is completely up to you. But you haven't evolved enough to see that or to

contemplate that or to understand what that means. And I'm telling you, I mean you play around

when you're a little baby, but from the time you're born to the time you die, you're inside.

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