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Something I want to bring up to
your attention. It's something that I'm having

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a hard time with. Now it
makes perfect sense to me, but I'm

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still having a hard time with it. So I wanted to share that with

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you and see if you felt the
same. The thought comes from reading The

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Living Gida by sus Swami Sachidananda,
and there's a part in there where Krishna

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is telling ar Yuna that we are
all one. And we've heard a lot

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about that in this new thought,
new age movement, whatever you want to

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call what we're doing here, the
fact that we are all one. But

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what exactly does that mean at the
core of it, Well, I would

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think that what it means is that
when you look at another person, you're

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really looking at yourself in a different
situation, in a different body and a

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different personality, a different you,
but you nonetheless. And then he talks

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about chocolate. I know, I
love chocolate. There's all so many different

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types of chocolate, different sizes and
shapes and flavors. And you go to

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a candy store and the kids order
one kind of chocolate. The other kid

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orders a round chocolate, another one
orders a square chocolate, and they're all

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arguing about which one's the best.
Oh, mind tastes better, No mind

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tastes better. At the end of
the day, it's all chocolate, right,

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It's all the same thing. They're
just in different forms, different shapes,

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but they're the same thing. So
I have a hard time with that

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because in this age of complete and
utter division in our country, at the

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very least here in the United States, when you look at someone across the

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aisle and you see the things that
you feel are so incredibly heinous that you

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can't believe that they would actually believe
some of the things, you start to

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demonize them. You start to see
them as not you. And that's one

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of the things that I'm working on. One of the hardest things that I'm

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working on is when I look at
you, I want to see me in

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another circumstance. It's important for you
to be in a different circumstance, because

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that's why we're here, to experience
all circumstances, in all points of view

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and all examples of what we could
possibly be and think and feel. And

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so instead of demonizing someone from the
other side of the aisle, I'm trying

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to see them and celebrate them as
who they are, and that is someone

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that is me trying to experience something
completely different than what I in will form

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is experiencing. And that's beautiful when
you think of it that way, when

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you can see yourself. And there
have been times when I've been driving down

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the street and suddenly I feel this
connectedness with everyone else around me that's driving

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as well, everyone in their cars, everyone in the street. I just

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see them as me in different circumstances
and that changes everything, everything, and

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that's really amazing. But it's so
easy to fall out of it, especially

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these days. So I urge you
and encourage you to try that today,

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and everyone you see, try to
see them as another you in a different

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circumstance, because honestly, that's the
reality of it. They are a different

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you in a different experience, and
that is perfectly okay, that is divinely

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okay. You see, we need
to celebrate each other in our different circumstances

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so that when we reunite as one
in the astral plane, we can bring

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these experiences and this knowledge to ourselves
in oneness. Does that make any sense?

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I hope it does, because when
I started it made perfect sense in

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my head, and now I might've
talked myself into a tizzy. Anyway,

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Just remember when you look across the
aisle, you're seeing you looking at you

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across the aisle, So try to
do that with love.