take the jokers out of your deck.

where focus goes, energy flows. ⁣

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you can’t force people to respect you. ⁣

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but if you walk away you will respect yourself. ⁣

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you can’t get angry at clown shit, ⁣

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and then be consumed by that same foolery.⁣

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those who are out of control try to control. your power isn’t anywhere outside of you.

this is why the best work we can do, is the work we do on ourselves. ⁣

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this game of life is you playing with you. it isn’t about going against anything. the clowns in your life are you. they are a reflection of you. ⁣

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whatever you are phased and/or affected by, is something that you don’t want to accept in yourself. ⁣

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you can easily take the jokers out of the deck. you don’t have to respond to anything that doesn’t feel good to you. you don’t have to argue with people. you don’t have to prove yourself. you don’t have to entertain and act. ⁣

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life can be like a circus, there are many acts playing at once. and you always get to choose what you want.

what do you want to watch? what do you want to entertain? how do you want to play? it is all up to you. ⁣

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but it doesn’t serve you to watch an act that you aren’t feeling. if you were quite literally at a circus and the performance got out of hand or dangerous or just plain boring, would you stay or would you leave?⁣

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apply this same rule to your life. ⁣

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our minds are so powerful. this is why we can use them to create things out of thin air. we aren’t actually creating from thin air. all things are already here. we are just focusing on that thing that we want. and the focus on it, creates it to appear. ⁣

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if that isn’t magician-like, I don’t know what is. ⁣

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if we are constantly focused on some shit that makes us angry, sad, frustrated, guilty, or shameful, then we have no chance at having something else appear in our reality. ⁣

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if you keep giving clowns your energy, you create more clowns. ⁣

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this is quite literally the way it works. ⁣

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in college, i always used to say “life is a never-ending circle.”⁣

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i didn’t know it back then but this was me recognizing that situations continue to play themselves out if lessons aren’t learned. ⁣

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for instance, that person who jumps from relationship to relationship with different people who are all the same. ⁣

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we all know that’s the definition of insanity. ⁣

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“life is a never-ending circle” is true when you don’t realize that you have the power to choose when the circle ends. ⁣

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full circle moments happen all the time as an opportunity for us to jump out of the loop. ⁣

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when it closes itself out, the lesson is available and it is time to move forward. however, most of us stay in the loop. and that is okay too. we are here for a short time and these lessons are invaluable so we don’t have to rush them. ⁣

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but, we have to get radically honest with ourselves otherwise we will fall into the victim trap. ⁣

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and start to think that life is happening to us. ⁣

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or something is against us. ⁣

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or we have no power. ⁣

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it’s like a hamster on the wheel. except you aren’t a hamster. you can jump out of the cycle of karma. ⁣

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if you don’t, no one will do it for you. ⁣

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#getoutthetrap ⁣