In our spiritual sleep… we live with imagined rights that, when denied, produce imagined trespassers. The internal consideration of these now in debt to us grants us imagined powers of pride along with its prejudice. These false forces permit and foster the belief that there is righteousness in being negative, and that it is our subsequent responsibility to judge others for what they have seen fit to do to us!  What we must see is that we are our own undoing.  This is what it means to wake up.

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