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If it's a caterpillar's walking on a stick, if there's a wall here, right?

The victim caterpillar goes, oh there's a wall here, I'm not going to do this.

The achiever caterpillar, the make it happen motivation caterpillar, goes, I'm going to get over the wall.

That what's trying to emerge out of me Caterpillar goes, I think I'll just sit here for a week and do nothing.

And then it's cocoon forms and eventually it has wings and this thing's a non-issue. It's not existent.

So I've had it before where someone talks crap about me, right? Now the victim caterpillar goes, I'm going to leave this. The achievement caterpillar

goes, I'm going to prove them wrong. But the what's trying to emerge out of me caterpillar

goes, okay, this thing is here. What illusion, what story am I in for this thing to even be an existing thing?

And for me that shift happened.

Comics were giving me crap because it was this positive guy.

And all of a sudden I was like I cared what they thought

about me but something was trying to emerge out of me so I had to sit and I sat in a

hotel for a long time and I felt all this pain in me and then eventually I noticed my mind was coming up with all these

solutions but I was just sitting on a bed safe but my mind was literally fighting for its life

for days but I'm totally safe. And we always are sitting here in a place of thinking I got to fix this problem and we're actually in fight or flight life or death mode when we're totally safe, almost the entire life. So at one point I saw

my mind was doing this and I realized I'm not my thoughts because my thoughts are coming

up with this and I was separate from the thoughts and I realized I'm the one looking at this and all the

sudden my entire life story collapsed and I was just this moment and I stared at a wall for

like five hours and I felt totally free and I realized I felt a freedom that was even

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