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it, but not if you suppress it. And understanding can be gained only by the procedure I 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS
and of psychology has contributed greatly to this understanding. The essence and root of psychology, if you 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS
or in a very superficial way, not really understanding what it is all about. That is not 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS
measured by the human eye. The efforts and understanding of a handful of such people are more 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS
of you who have already gained an overall understanding about your inner problems, it will become necessary 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION
and victory -- which gives you strength and understanding about your own life and life in general 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION
instant you have experienced that first glimmer of understanding you will recognize how steeped in separateness you 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION
to life will eventually reveal to you an understanding not only of yourself and others, but also 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION
world into another are self- knowledge and the understanding of your unconscious problems, concepts, and attitudes. Self- 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION
ultimate aim. Once you have reached a deeper understanding of your innermost problems and deviations, as you 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION
tune into a different current. Your awareness and understanding of the negative is the essential part. All 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION
create new perspectives. It may help gain new understanding from a different angle so as to better 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION
purification. And if you pray for strength and understanding to be able to overcome your cowardice to 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures)
for abstract ideas. An adult is capable of understanding an idea or a concept in abstract terms 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures)
feel my words; you will derive a deep understanding from them and they will give you a 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT
you which is still hidden and then, through understanding its imagined necessity, dissolving it. In that moment 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT
the inner view and vista. In other words, understanding. The more you understand yourself, the better you 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
having experienced this truth. Your real seeing and understanding begin only when you see and understand yourself 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
that measure will you be understood. With such understanding, you will see that the meaning of these 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
before in connection with the eye -- seeing, understanding. But the tooth refers specifically to the process 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
in your observations, you will gain an entire understanding of this meaning. You are so often puzzled 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
not found how you caused it. Only in understanding the causes that you have set in motion 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
happenings to a fate outside their control. People understanding and living according to this truth will take 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
you, that you resist not evil. ANSWER: Yes. Understanding the real meaning of the quotation we are 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
is merely an amplification, an extension. With the understanding that you gain on this path, you are 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
deeper meaning you will gain an entirely different understanding of Scripture. QUESTION: Another saying of Jesus has 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
sufficiently developed, there is absolutely no way of understanding a spiritual meaning, whether clearly and directly, expressed 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
the more dangerous it is for those whose understanding has not reached a higher level through development 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
is not at all the same as not understanding -- and therefore abuse would be inevitable. QUESTION 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
to one who is not yet capable of understanding. That person is just as apt to misunderstand 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
the benefit for those few who derive real understanding from revealed truth will balance it out. This 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
in symbols and parables, but because the person's understanding was not sufficient. It would have been worse 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
one's own potentials and limitations. Where the clear understanding of one's own limitations is lacking, ability must 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
enlightenment, and victory due to the insight and understanding you gain about your entire life and yourself 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
you strongly enough that the fact of finding, understanding, and even changing to some extent, does not 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
the old way, you gain additional insight and understanding. You broaden the view you have gained so 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
you will find the strength only by complete understanding of the negative emotions that still exist in 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
I need not discuss it at greater length. Understanding the need for communication and cooperation on the 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION
but repulse it. Such observations will broaden your understanding and will prove very beneficial for you. In 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION
facing and examining your feelings and reactions, and understanding their significance by tracing them to their roots 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION
it also demands a great deal of intuition, understanding, and talent. A dream is something extremely personal 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION
sight everything that may give them a deeper understanding of themselves, whether gained from a dream, or 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION
on earth. You can only develop a different understanding, a wider vision. Cause and effect move closer 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY
their suffering, which they have to accept without understanding the reason, often fare better. They may not 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS
for the moment, the unwanted pain, and fully understanding that the self-produced misery is of therapeutic value 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS
not understood by people because, in humanity's limited understanding, they seemed to contradict his other teachings. It 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS
spirit life do not go far enough in understanding this phenomenon from a worldly point of view 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS
right to want to be always decent, loving, understanding, never angry, and to have no faults, but 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE
you have weakened your idealized self by fully understanding its function, its causes and effects. Then you 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE
you should understand and expect that a theoretical understanding, especially now, will avail you nothing. As long 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE
chosen love, with all its subdivisions of compassion, understanding, forgiveness, union, communication, brotherhood, sacrifice, as a rigid 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS
it is but a caricature of true love, understanding, forgiveness, or compassion. The poison of the underlying 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS
it differently, you will communicate in love and understanding while being truly independent. Love, power, and serenity 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS
only for further thought, but for insight and understanding. May you thus gain a further step toward 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS
to deal with, not only in theory, but understanding them emotionally. But this is impossible if you 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION
and believe that you are acting on your understanding, you must find where this is not so 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION
two sets of feelings -- one forgiving and understanding, the other angry -- there is always a 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION
only after the sustained effort of discovering and understanding your idealized self -- to that degree you 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION
May they open further vistas, further doors, further understanding. May they strengthen you a little more to 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION
either from lack of love, from lack of understanding of its own individuality, from a general uncertainty 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT
yourself. You will consequently gain an entirely new understanding of yourself and your problems. If your predominant 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT
no awareness of these two basic needs, no understanding that these needs are unfulfilled and why. All 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT
learn this by decreasing your resistance through increased understanding, you will truly unfold layer after layer of 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT
very different way and with a very different understanding. The acute anxiety and fear that you occasionally 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT
you will accomplish further insight, growth, and self- understanding. In order to accomplish this without unnecessary delay 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
principal aim will be less a further theoretical understanding than a great deepening of your emotional awareness 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
theoretical and not yet conducive to a true understanding. Only as you become increasingly aware of the 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
spiritual emphasis, but with a deepened and broadened understanding. We shall come back to this point with 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
of all of humanity's inner conditions. Lack of understanding, confusion, unawareness of cause and effect, contradictory aims 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
to return to it later but with new understanding gained while having been away from the spiritual 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
But such answer will not bring you further understanding. Although some of these factors may contribute to 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
willing process: a free, self-determined action, derived from understanding. It makes people act from their own conviction 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
religious point of view, however. Complete awareness and understanding of these attitudes will show you how you 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
appease and be falsely good. By finding, tracing, understanding, and resolving these distortions, you not only grow 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
clinging appeasement and blind obedience -- often without understanding -- you will develop into a strong self-responsible 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
no less divine. Quite the contrary. With this understanding, you will not mind my returning occasionally to 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
your own, the grace still exists. But this understanding will not come until you assume responsibility for 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
best interests; how logically impossible. After seeing and understanding all this, the change happens organically, by itself 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
For a while you will live without any understanding of grace, but then the true concept will 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
they are allowed expression for the purpose of understanding their significance will you finally reach a point 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
finding reasons and excuses, you will gain an understanding about yourself such as you never had before 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
it is in your power to change them. Understanding the interaction between yourself and others will show 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
originally wanted. This will give you an inner understanding about the process of communication. This is the 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
for others. After thus having gained insight and understanding, new warm, good emotions will come out of 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
what is so necessary with a little more understanding and truth. Any spiritual development is a farce 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
that you realize that your own lack of understanding causes the hurt and therefore the hatred. Then 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
still more mature, that you will gain the understanding and therefore you will no longer be hurt 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
exploring the depths of your emotions and clearly understanding their significance will make it possible to change 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS
permanent. And your childish emotions, despite your intellectual understanding, still feel that way. You exaggerate the importance 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS
of their existence, than with clear awareness and understanding about them. With this knowledge and intent, you 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
time ago. In the meantime, further insight and understanding was gained, so that now, with some of 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
with some of the new approaches, a deeper understanding can be reached. As I explained at the 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
until you can free yourself from it through understanding yourself. Do not automatically refrain from a constructive 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
If you stopped the pattern without the necessary understanding, you would experience extreme anxiety. This, in turn 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
takes time and needs a great amount of understanding; or not letting up on efforts of self- 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
a destructive pattern can be dispensed with is understanding the inner defense and the need for it 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
us go into it a little more thoroughly. Understanding and awareness of the significance of needs will 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
be satisfied only with full awareness so that understanding can be combined with the instinctual forces. Your 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
I talk about this point of relinquishing. The understanding will come, slowly but surely, as you proceed 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
are very close. But even an inkling of understanding some of my words will be of great 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
due to trying to force it away without understanding the irrational belief of advantage versus disadvantage. As 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
of advantage versus disadvantage. As long as such understanding is lacking, you must experience extreme anxiety, because 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
to let go of it because some further understanding is still missing. In this frantic state it 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
you more impatient, more frantic and hopeless. But understanding what you can expect will enable you to 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
as if by itself. Observation of this process, understanding of why the psyche retains it, will produce 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
This cannot be done, of course. Further intellectual understanding about spiritual factors would not induce an inner 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
to the surface more and more. Before overall understanding of the entire inner conflict is reached, you 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES
have not yet gained an overall and concise understanding of your life; what is problematic about it 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES
main links of cause and effect. Before such understanding can be yours, you are bound to find 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES
until you have gained a fuller view and understanding of the totality of your conflicts. By this 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES
this I do not mean a general, theoretical understanding, but a real inner, specific, and personal understanding 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES
understanding, but a real inner, specific, and personal understanding. Such inner understanding comes only after a great 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES
real inner, specific, and personal understanding. Such inner understanding comes only after a great deal of deep 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES
a little from the outside toward the inner understanding of the overall picture about yourself, let me 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES
the outside can give you only a theoretical understanding to begin with. It must not remain that 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES
guiding directives, so as to gain personal, emotional understanding from them. The link must be made with 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES
one another. Only if you have a full understanding of how all this applies to your own 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES
the full impact, and almost never with the understanding of what really hurts you and why. The 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES
inhibited, undemonstrative, or conflicted, and she therefore lacked understanding and imagination. In any case, the child experienced 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES
experienced an acute lack of affection, warmth, and understanding and was therefore frustrated. In a situation like 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES
now examine a little further, with our new understanding, what this means. Due to such an image 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES
destructive in general, and you obey this general understanding. But you have not yet seen why the 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES
other shooting out. The third alternative -- after understanding how superfluous this protective measure is apart from 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES
One grows into it by insight, by full understanding of all the angles. This leads to the 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES
in which, among other benefits, you get more understanding of how you affect others and how others 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES
It takes considerable progress in this work and understanding about certain conflicts and distortions before you can 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT
charity of the spirit, manifesting in tolerance and understanding; the charity of giving material things; the charity 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT
it, you will not have any difficulty in understanding it. However, if the question still remains open 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT
-- I should like to give an overall understanding of your current work. I will use an 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
express all the benign forces -- reason, love, understanding, insight, strength, resourcefulness, resiliency, flexibility, adaptability, self-assertion, creativity 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
You can relinquish this attitude only through fully understanding that your worth, value and lovability are not 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
of your problems, your errors, your unreality -- understanding them in their full scope and depth, their 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
It happens through the mere insight into and understanding of your unreality and distortions. The fuller your 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
of your unreality and distortions. The fuller your understanding, the more you automatically change. Such change is 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
have gained a sufficient amount of insight and understanding. Such change is less gradual. It consists of 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
in spite of your free will and your understanding. Whether or not you are ready for this 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
of the need to receive, be it love, understanding, closeness to others or creative fulfillment. You strive 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
it. What stands in the way of your understanding? There must be something in you that is 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
should go rather in the direction of further understanding of why this current exists. The outer answer 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
do not know how to fight constructively by understanding the source, so you battle one of the 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION
question of judging and despising others, rather than understanding, loving, and helping. Although sickness and sin are 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION
universal issue can be dealt with only by understanding the following: Such impatience may come from a 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION
first negative flow has to dissipate itself through understanding your emotions' origin, before the positive feelings, coming 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION
be linked with the current material, so much understanding is lost. How can you communicate if your 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION
you see the wholeness of the person. The understanding will dissolve the still hidden hurt and anger 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
whole dimension -- will give you insight and understanding about your own life and all that governs 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
in conflict even now. Needless to say, this understanding is the prerequisite to your ending these unproductive 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
even if they were cruel to you. In understanding what made them cruel, you will see it 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
to get out of them until the basic understanding that your parents' real or imagined rejection of 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
When this truth is recognized through real inner understanding, the sense of their rejection of you must 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
one is close to. But with your new understanding you destroy the limited, rigid, robot-like image in 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
recognize your error. The moment you have this understanding, the original rejection by them will no longer 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
to saying, I have no way of gaining understanding about my parents. I tell you, even if 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
capable of it. If you work toward the understanding and recognition of your resistance to removing this 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
and honor into something compulsive that destroys real understanding and subsequently real love and honor. In blindness 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
children had reverence for them, through acceptance and understanding. And I have seen children from well-kept homes 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE

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