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I was just reading a Rashad field book called The Last Barrier, a Sufi journey.

One of the lines they have in there, which I underlined, says that if you're walking in the garden

and you step on a thorn and you're looking at the roses and you step on a thorn, be sure to say thank you.

And I just studied that for the longest time, because usually when the thorns of our life show up

and we just, we curse them and we wish that they wouldn't have happened, but they're also there to teach us important things.

And so often...

Two great lessons.

Yeah.

I think I've learned more from the situations I've hated than the ones I've loved.

Oh, absolutely.

Not only that, Diane, but the situations that you say you hated or that were struggle.

Generally, I've preceded a spiritual advance.

They say that every spiritual advance that we take in our life is preceded by a fall of some kind or another.

That's in the process of falling and getting down low and having these storms show up in our life.

It gives us the energy to propel ourselves to an even higher place.

Most people who've had problems with drug addiction and alcoholism and so on will often tell you that it was their falls.

You know, their ultimate falls, which finally gave them the energy to just propel themselves to a higher place where they no longer were dependent upon some external thing to put into their body

in order to make themselves feel better.

It's like...

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