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destructive motivation in the remotest recesses of your personality. What religion refers to as salvation -- and 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL
At the same time, other areas of your personality are still in the dark regions of conflict 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL
only secondary, while the primary aim of the personality is in fact destructive. Covering up the more 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS
healthier sense. With a completely constructive psyche, the personality can trust its spontaneous, unchecked, free expressions. It 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS
their futility be comprehended so blatantly that the personality will dispense with them. You will no longer 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS
exact result of the sum total of your personality. This includes, of course, the favorable circumstances. When 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY
more realistic as it relates to your inner personality. You will gain a more rounded picture of 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY
integrate it with the adult ego does the personality become whole and equipped to handle life. The 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY
they manifest from the live center, the human personality cripples itself and puts itself out of balance 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY
occurs when two opposite directions exist in a personality. The direction of the universal creative forces is 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN
the disturbance is fought against ineffectively, and the personality wants health, it negates that it also wants 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN
That is the origin of pain. If the personality were conscious of wanting non-health as well as 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN
be desired only by one part of the personality, never by the whole of it. There will 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN
always the result of the pull on the personality by two tendencies which are the life and 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN
positive and negative directions. The outer layers of personality must suffer as long as unity is not 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN
already been found in human material realms. The personality level that wants the negative and pursues that 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN
be understood and subsequently abandoned, so that the personality finds its way back to the original level 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION
may exist only in certain areas of your personality, whereas in other areas you may be in 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION
safety of hate and cruelty and change your personality into one of love for others. To make 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION
whenever a person is in flux, when the personality is truly vibrating in the harmony of the 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION
is not real development. Real development produces a personality that does not need to be on guard 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION
investigating the particulars of this overemotionalism. When the personality does not dare to invest natural, spontaneous feelings 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION
disturbed. This balance must be reestablished for the personality to be in harmony and peace. When the 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION
trust cannot be established as long as the personality plays such magical, childish, bargaining and -- in 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION
comes. It is not a giving up of personality, of individuality or consciousness -- not by any 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION
insufficient trust is given to other levels of personality, which function autonomously when given a chance and 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION
has existed for some time and exhausted the personality, people often resort to false means to liberate 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO
consciousness affords. This longing is misinterpreted by the personality, partly because it is an unconscious yearning for 143 UNITY AND DUALITY
from it. That very character defect makes the personality unable to cope with the good even where 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE
ahead and find out why not. When your personality is geared to a positive soul movement, there 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE
however, is a mechanism taking place within the personality. The innermost self is aware of the incongruity 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE
themselves. This hardly ever applies to the total personality, except for the insane. Most people have many 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY
responsibility. It requires the selfhood of a mature personality which copes with personal limitations and the difficulties 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY
conscious level. Hence these currents come into your personality almost by the back door, as it were 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY
you, compared with the vast areas of your personality where you do love, your conscience will still 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY
it cannot reach the outer layers of your personality. In physical sickness, the body remains inactive for 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY
say that it does not reach the outer personality levels and it is then found only in 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY
reality. It can then surge through the outer personality levels and heal the distortions. A totally self-realized 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY
so confused and so alien to their innermost personality that they feel they are dealing with unrelated 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE
dealing with unrelated phenomena when looking at their personality, their concepts, their feelings or the lack of 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE
the most positive and constructive aspects of their personality to bear on the situation, their experience in 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE
trust in the ultimate good of one's own personality nor, consequently, anyone else's. There is a great 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE
need concise acknowledgement in order to bring the personality into balance and truth. It means more than 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE
more this will become possible. The more the personality is willing to dispense with deceit and courageously 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE
unbearable, frightening, overwhelming, and almost annihilating when the personality is still geared to negativity and destructiveness. To 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT
put it differently, to the degree that the personality has impaired its integrity, and impurity, dishonesty, cheating 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT
with another establishes the requisite conditions in the personality for true inner union. Therefore this pull toward 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION
fear of and opposition to this pull; the personality bucks the natural flow. To the degree that 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION
whose counter-pull is relatively weak and whose predominant personality affirms life and their own deepest instincts, and 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION
like to discuss a feature of the human personality that seems relatively insignificant, merely psychological, yet it 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION
the inability to tolerate frustration constitutes a severe personality disturbance and impairs one's character. When frustration is 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION
This may manifest on any level of the personality. Negative contact manifesting in the desire to hurt 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION
other; both elements are always represented in a personality, but only one of them may predominate on 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION
a violation of personal integrity that prevents the personality from coming into its own -- whether or 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS
widespread and affects more areas of life and personality than you can imagine, my friends. We have 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS
to the power, but permanently through a changed personality that no longer cultivates attitudes which obstruct the 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION
the universal power, it is necessary that the personality is in inner and outer relaxation. Such relaxation 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION
is in flux and not taut can the personality give its total attention to what it is 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION
of it creates an incompatibility between your inner personality and the universal power. It causes a deep 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION
power must enter into all levels of the personality for it to function well. If the mental 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION
consciously, half-unconsciously, that the more tautly intense the personality is, the greater the pleasure. In other words 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION
The lighter and easier the flow of the personality is -- it may first appear almost as 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION
us recapitulate: A relaxed, lighthearted, natural, undramatized, unintense personality is essential to look at the self in 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION
established. Simultaneous with this reorientation of character and personality will be the possibility of letting go of 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION
goodness results when real feelings are blocked. The personality feels guilty for hindering the natural flow of 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION
do anything -- face anything unpleasant, change my personality, or give up a destructive attitude I do 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION
use the physical approach is to help the personality reorient itself, which may give to many the 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION
necessary stamina they otherwise lack. A change of personality does not make people lose their uniqueness, but 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION
uniquely themselves by eliminating distortions, imbalance, destructiveness. The personality must become compatible with this power in order 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION
describe certain overall, fundamental levels of the human personality: the higher self, meaning the real potential in 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER
-- of the best in yourself. For many personality types it seems shameful to display one's best 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER
merely described certain features of one kind of personality on a relatively superficial level. The specific personality 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER
personality on a relatively superficial level. The specific personality I then discussed feels this shame primarily about 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER
oneself, as one is now, is exposed, the personality is less frightened of annihilation or danger, but 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER
involuntary processes create a tremendous imbalance in the personality. To a greater or lesser degree, depending on 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
the body, but to all levels of the personality. When you realize that you do not have 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
is how balance can be reestablished in the personality. The cultivation of healthful mental habits chosen by 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
becomes a rigid constriction of creative processes. The personality becomes stiff, unspontaneous, empty of real feelings, bound 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
inner tension and rigidity exist that separate the personality from the real self which has all the 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
personalities break. The strain becomes too much. Other personality types choose, as a way out, evasion through 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
on forever greater proportions, perpetuating itself until the personality truly loses itself. The personality can no longer 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
itself until the personality truly loses itself. The personality can no longer stop the process and may 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
fullness and depth of feelings that make the personality vibrantly alive and joyous on all levels of 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING
of proportion about it, not rejecting the total personality because of it, the rage will transform itself 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING
is, the less masochistic, suffering, and self-depriving the personality becomes. The more the false giving by self-impoverishment 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING
nature, that in these forbidden emotions your true personality is revealed, that this is the ultimate you 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
constructive. Gradually the old, undeveloped side of the personality will gain confidence in these new modes of 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
should be, or letting neurotic layers of your personality mix in with superimposed perfectionistic standards. Neither one 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
real self follows the creation of a healthy personality. This can happen once you learn and comprehend 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY
them first to the troubled areas of the personality. Whatever possibility you can conceive of, you can 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY
applies, of course, to all levels of your personality. It applies to the mental level, where you 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY
fear and weakness. Because this corner of the personality usually induces a strong shame, it is kept 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY
less shameful than the means to which the personality resorts to placate and appease others. The ways 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY
know, my friends, that this area of the personality has remained a child. The child does not 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY
not yet know that the whole of the personality has grown up and is indeed no longer 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY
in this one area so that the whole personality grows lopsidedly. Your adult conscious mind ignores the 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY
of the most fundamental splits in the human personality. Let us now look a bit closer at 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY
of cruel impulses. This, in turn, weakens the personality even more as guilt comes up. You conclude 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY
of self derives exclusively from the ego, the personality is unable to let go. Letting go would 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF
As with the conscious and unconscious of the personality, so with individual and universal consciousness. This applies 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION
constrictions create all sorts of knots in the personality -- physically, mentally, and emotionally. These knots cause 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT
of the climate you live in within your personality, it automatically loses a certain binding power. You 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT
no fear, no cramp. It involves the total personality. In order to come to this level, my 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT
would put it this way: The moment the personality ceases to struggle against a feeling, the pain 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT
chores. The type of strength flowing into the personality during this particular immersion into the universal forces 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
into the vast ocean of universal force, the personality can never be the same. Not only is 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
experiences are hindered because of obstructions in the personality which the ego is unwilling to remove, to 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
is so great that when the distorted, fearful personality hinders this natural process, unnatural processes are sought 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
toward it. Death is the great relief the personality seeks when all other avenues of relief from 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
daylight of consciousness. For as long as the personality tries to force a change before the destructive 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
disintegration, which is inevitable when the outer, ego personality is incompatible with the universal self. If the 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
totally attached to the ego levels of the personality -- causes fear and insecurity. It is such 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
negating and denying the childish misunderstandings in your personality. To admit what childish nonsense is lodged in 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE
the child strives for magical omnipotence because the personality fears and dislikes dealing with the present limitations 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE
in the universe and therefore in each human personality. One is the force that is striving, moving 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY
the principle applies to everything. Growth within the personality is also a creation determined by the same 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY
the natural rhythm to prevail until the entire personality is freed from the painful, cramped state. Freedom 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY
is worse than any conscious pain. In some personality types the result is inertia. Misapplied will and 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY
ceases to be a threat so that the personality does not cramp up and shrink into itself 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY
different. The real self says to the outer personality that it is conducting something in a wrong 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS
hidden it is, the more clearly the outer personality registers its messages. Sometimes this is experienced as 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS
which rebels against the mismanagement of the outer personality. Thus the weight is subtly shifted relating to 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS
these attitudes are decisive factors of the human personality and have to be faced and changed. But 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS
a breakdown, of a violent eruption which the personality cannot control. We shall come back to this 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS
value, beauty, and function. Only the most distorted personality will consider one as good and battle against 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS
by themselves can never bring aliveness into the personality, nor can they bring into you the consciousness 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL
tiny part of the whole picture of your personality or the motives for the hurting act. There 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL
never unbearable, always leaving the essence of the personality intact. If you can let yourself feel such 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL
be established with the life-resisting part of your personality. May these words lift you in hope, courage 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING
death, but movement versus nonmovement. Although the healthy personality accepts death as one of the phenomena of 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE
directions. In the very center of the human personality exists a potent, white-glowing mass of energy. It 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER
in ascertaining this fact about yourself. The human personality is an integral part of the great power 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER
substance I mentioned. When I say, the human personality, I actually mean everything about it: the conscious 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER
is therefore necessary to comprehend that the conscious personality, although relatively limited, contains everything you need to 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER
one with it and express it, the outer personality must be compatible with its attitudes, its laws 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER
the consciousness stems from an individual brain or personality, or whether the consciousness is the great universal 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS
bound and must wait for release until the personality has settled its difficulty with its own destructive 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS
holding back is so firmly rooted that the personality will needlessly forgo the use of the activating 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS
actively builds, affects, causes, and determines. When the personality is fully aware of no longer needing and 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS
masculine and feminine creative principles permeates your whole personality. Let us take for example a problem at 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS
active and aggressive is so throughout his total personality. He will inevitably discover an area in which 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS
can be removed, no unhappiness eliminated, unless the personality, be it man or woman, uses the activating 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS
round out not only your progress but your personality itself. In this new phase, you will learn 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS
unconscious block. This may merely imply a different personality structure; it may mean that the person has 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS
back once more to the difficulty of the personality when one still ignores one's own denial of 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS
stage must also be unitive, including the total personality. You will learn certain practices that will make 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS
however, to open up these centers once the personality is firmly grounded in reality, in love, in 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS
starts, an undefendedness takes over that makes the personality chargeable, if I may use the expression. Here 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS
the almost unconveyable facts: imagine the conscious, functioning personality as an overall center. Imagine it like a 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS

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