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Oh, you try all of these things and do all of these things, but you don't master any of them. And that sat with me for a while until it dawned on me that maybe I'm not supposed to be mastering skills. Maybe I'm not supposed to be mastering trades or a career and these things outside of myself. But maybe what I'm here to master is myself. So it's the thing that I'm supposed to master in this life
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 0:30
Hey, Sheena. I want to, like, hold this up in my hands to the sky and let it shine out. I love everything you just said. I don't even want to repeat anything and paraphrase it back to how it felt to as to who I am, because what you said resonates so deeply that I just want to lift it up by replying and saying, I guess, amen. Hallelujah. Seriously, just one of the most perfect swells I've ever heard. Thank you
Thank you for that. I'm glad you were able to get something out of it
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
Jai Staton
@SistahSoul · 2:47
Like we don't want to other anybody, we don't want to other ourselves. And by forcing people to choose or you can be this or that, you can do this or that, you can be a stay at home mom or you can be a working mom. Like there's so many different things. And now we know that you can be a stay at home mom and you can be a working mom because you can work from home
Mtwadamela Ijogo
@Mtwadamela · 5:00
I think you hit that right on the head when you got to the part where you said maybe what I'm supposed to master is myself. Okay? I've been a lifelong practitioner of martial arts. Been doing it my whole life. There's a saying our Sipu used to tell us, he used to always say it takes 5000 repetitions, correct repetitions to master one technique. Right? But kung fu is such a I've always looked at it as a spiritual discipline
So the idea that if we're allowing ourselves to other ourselves from the truest sense of ourselves, then yeah, we're definitely going to look to inflict that same sort of otherness on others. And it may not even be intentional, it's just the way that we begin to look at things that becomes our new lens of comprehension to say that, well, if I have to be XYZ, then I can only recognize you as XYZ
Hi. I have never heard the hemispheres of the brain described like that. Like that simple definition, if you want to call it that, of one side taking apart and the other side bringing together. That was an AHA like mental click moment for me because it's always logical side versus creative side or logical or aggressive side versus emotional side. But to really create the fluidity that's just like one takes apart and one brings it together, that feels beautiful. That feels peaceful almost
Zara Lisbon
@ZLisbon · 4:49
But when I heard this, it just rang so false to me, and it became a favorite thing of mine to remind myself that everything is both this and that. And I always wanted to get a tattoo that said both flash and but I have not yet. But that's a good reminder. I forgot about that. I wanted to do that
Zaire Ukuu
@zaireukuu · 3:12
They don't know how to control it. And then eventually it actually kills them because they are holding back what they truly are, and then it eventually explodes into chaos. I'm oversimplifying it, but yeah. And that's exactly what happens to us in real life when we're not who we're supposed to be or who you're not. Being honest with yourself and true to ourselves, you're going to bust open. You're going to bust open in some way or another