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Win the war not the battles… or where are you looking?
A minor miracle happened yesterday morning… I found that one of my students who had willfully turned off The Sight capacity, unexpectedly allowed it to stay on. Or maybe it was a major miracle… we shall see.
I assert that what was underneath of that miracle is that I suggested that he can be polite when asks someone to back off and let him speak his piece.
He saw that he never looked to see if it was possible. He had only seen that to get something, you need to be haughty, bombastic, loud, rigid, forceful… and his sight got stuck there.
Only when you discover, even if for a moment, that you haven’t been looking, that you become ready for The Sight, and to do the practices that keep it open.
We could say that as long as you look for your keys under the street light, but not where you lost them, you have no need for The Sight capacity, in fact it is annoying.
What makes you search under the street light and not where you lost your keys? Laziness? sloth? yes. But more importantly arrogance.
The United States is arrogant.
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