Good morning. Solitude and loneliness. Which do you choose? Do you choose to be in solitude? Or do you choose to sit in loneliness? It is a choice, not an easy one but it's a choice. Today we explore

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So let's sit down and listen to the sounds of rain and discuss the difference between solitude and loneliness.

Which do you choose?

And it's raining outside. I mean not like a pitter-batter. It's raining torrents pouring outside and you know that I love the rain. I just love the

rain. For me when I listen to the rain it's's cleansing, it's washing away whatever I choose to have washed away.

Because our minds are ever powerful and we can choose how to use any image any visualization if we want to.

At times we don't want to use our mind as we can to visualize.

Because we feel hurt, we feel downtrodden,

we may feel like victims,

and we may have every right to feel that we're victims so we don't use our mind in the way we can. In the movie Matrix, Keanu Reeves, I don't remember the character name,

Keanu Reeves realized that the entire world is the matrix

and we're all plugged in and he chose to wake up,

unplug himself and be in the real world. That takes an enormous

amount of courage to wake up and be in the real world. Because we're encouraged to be part of this falsity. The falsity is

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