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You see, we're better together, and then together we accomplish amazing things. No one creates

success alone. We all need a team to be successful. We need relationships to be successful

and we need to be one with God to be successful.

But again, there's this force always separating, dividing,

and disconnecting.

Think about our mental health.

When we go from oneness to separateness, we go from positive to negative.

And if you look at all mental health conditions, they all report feelings of

of negativity, of depression, of sadness, alone, isolation, and disconnection.

They all feel separate.

And then as we move towards oneness, we feel more whole, we feel more healthy, we feel more positive,

purposeful and peaceful.

And so what I realize is that the enemy is always trying to divide us and the way he does that is ultimately through our thoughts and we've had speakers talk about this with the thoughts the battle

field of our thoughts and so we're always having these negative thoughts that are trying to separate us. And when I talk to professional athletes or various groups, I always say, do your negative thoughts come from you?

And everyone's like, oh yeah, of course they're in my head.

Here's the next question. If you believe your negative thoughts come from you,

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