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Your growth could be on pause because you are studying a skill you should be practicing.

SpiritualityYour career becomes more fragile when you stop developing a craft.

The animal soul is rooted in selfish desire, but it can become a deep expression of love. You could even think of it as the “love soul.”

SpiritualityLove can begin in selfish desire and still become something much deeper.

A soul cannot be physically measured, but you can look at what it keeps producing.

SpiritualityYou can learn something about a person by noticing what they keep choosing when the choice becomes costly.

Not everyone who struggles with anger or self-hatred is narcissistic. Sometimes the nervous system simply does not know how to handle pain or overwhelm.

SpiritualitySometimes a person has serious emotional tantrums, anger problems, or deep self-hatred without having strong narcissistic patterns.

A desire to feel loved can become manipulation, people-pleasing, or healthy intimacy.

SpiritualityCreation being an expression of the Creator’s compassion and free choice means no part of your story has to be erased.

The Creator’s compassion is so deep that even a body made from dust was given free choice, the freedom to choose to become part of His purpose.

SpiritualityFree choice is deepest when the qualities of what you choose are not what make the choice happen.

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