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Then, rather than returning meanness for meanness, your creative spirit finds a way out of the situation. You can even have the spiritual glory of showing this other more brutal or more cynical person, show by living example how to do this, how they can be more open because you are being that right in front of them. You are offering a hand even though it is spit upon or slapped aside. You offer it again.
 
Then, rather than returning meanness for meanness, your creative spirit finds a way out of the situation. You can even have the spiritual glory of showing this other more brutal or more cynical person, show by living example how to do this, how they can be more open because you are being that right in front of them. You are offering a hand even though it is spit upon or slapped aside. You offer it again.
 
   
 
   
You bypass some of their violence with a kind of judo. You slough it off. You don’t let it affect you to where you feel you have to become calloused yourself. In your meditations, in your time with your Father, and with Mother Spirit and with me, this is where you open again. This is where you relax any of that defensive reaction. This is where you renew yourself. You can get up from your mediatons and once again be an active person.
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You bypass some of their violence with a kind of judo. You slough it off. You don’t let it affect you to where you feel you have to become calloused yourself. In your meditations, in your time with your Father, and with Mother Spirit and with me, this is where you open again. This is where you relax any of that defensive reaction. This is where you renew yourself. You can get up from your mediations and once again be an active person.
 
   
 
   
 
This is what I did so much in my human life--over and over again--use this kind of judo, this real spiritual strength to turn things around to not let folks hurt me; and then not re-act, but handle their reaction to me with a new, spontaneous, fresh response. This is what truly wins the day because it is truly new and creative. It’s not just a knee-jerk re-action.
 
This is what I did so much in my human life--over and over again--use this kind of judo, this real spiritual strength to turn things around to not let folks hurt me; and then not re-act, but handle their reaction to me with a new, spontaneous, fresh response. This is what truly wins the day because it is truly new and creative. It’s not just a knee-jerk re-action.

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