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a feeling of security. Only the capacity to experience primary, original, direct responses brings out the intuitive 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
described, with all its various aspects, you will experience more than simply another victory -- it will 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
is such a strong reaction, such a negative experience, something in you still fights against giving it 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
long as such understanding is lacking, you must experience extreme anxiety, because the twisted condition has a 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
you have to be perfect in order to experience happiness and fulfillment. But this is not true 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
time finding the same anew, you will finally experience this automatic, spontaneous new reaction. It is never 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
you are no longer aware of it and experience it only as a vague, general climate, but 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES
many of your needs. This happens because the experience leading to the formation of the image was 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES
did not wish to face it. Also, the experience made you believe that these needs cannot be 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES
needs, your hurts, and your disappointments. Perhaps you experience them to a certain degree, but rarely with 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES
work. This increases the original hurt of the experience which brought the image into existence. This is 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES
liberal with her praises. Thus, the child could experience some kind of gratification, provided he struggled hard 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES
recapture it. It is no longer meaningful. The experience of the insight has to be felt again 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES
up your resistance to relinquishing, because your own experience will teach you that letting go is something 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT
you are better able to express yourself, you experience more keenly, and you have a deeper, wider 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT
have not yet gained the sense, awareness, and experience of the real you. You ask yourself, Who 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
have to do is see it. When your experience of self, of others and of life is 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
it have this effect on you? Because your experience of self and of others is so distorted 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
was connected with and resulted from your distorted experience of life and self, your inability to relinquish 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
because it implies inferiority. Once you see and experience that this is a distortion, you will eventually 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
you do so, your ability to perceive and experience such factors as success, responsibility and pleasure in 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
there. People who are not alienated from themselves experience the richness of their individuality. They experience their 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
themselves experience the richness of their individuality. They experience their own power. They trust in themselves because 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
people who are not alienated from themselves will experience themselves. They are equipped to deal with all 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
with all situations life brings. They will also experience themselves in a realistic relationship to the world 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
at large and to other individuals. Alienated people experience themselves as either too small or too big 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
better and are utterly unconscious that, emotionally, you experience the effect others have on you in that 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
out of your real self, you will not experience yourself as less or more than others. You 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
you are alienated from yourself. You do not experience yourself in your real situation. How then can 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
in your real situation. How then can you experience others in their reality? You experience certain facets 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
can you experience others in their reality? You experience certain facets of them which you may overemphasize 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
evaluation may be pretty accurate, yet your emotional experience is colored by your fears and desires in 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
you are alienated from yourself, you do not experience others in their reality; they affect you according 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
outer problem. In a crass way, you may experience others as potential enemies or slaves -- as 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
of these conditions, of this limited outlook and experience -- which is the prerequisite for changing your 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
is the prerequisite for changing your ability to experience yourself and others in reality -- requires a 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
me assure you, my friends, the moment you experience yourself in your unreality -- once you truly 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
again, as always, you first have to fully experience the distortion before you can come out of 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
touch with your real self before you fully experience how you are as yet not in touch 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
your self-alienation that I have given you to experience it. Take any of your current problems and 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
they make you small or big? Do you experience people as many-faceted complex beings with their own 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
can possibly fulfill them and while you consciously experience unfulfillment, is bound to bring relief, harmony and 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
the opposite direction from the true security and experience of life that you are destined for. I 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION
yourself, the more you will participate in and experience life in its fullness. The necessary energies will 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION
will grow in you. You will begin to experience yourself for the first time as being no 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION
even this negative finding will give you the experience of reality, thus of the real self. This 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION
been changed -- in that full acknowledgement and experience you do find your real self. You feel 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION
want, think, feel, as well as how you experience others and yourself, concepts, ideas and convictions. It 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION
will have certainty -- not necessarily that your experience is right, but that it is truly you 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION
subjective associations -- what you think, feel, and experience in connection with dream events. The tendency to 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION
But there is also the fact that spiritual experience cannot be conveyed in words. This inability causes 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION
You cannot find the right words because spiritual experience is no longer a question of words; it 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION
be able to communicate to others what you experience. The words will not matter so much, because 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION
there is no pain, you accept what we experience due to our own inadequacy and fears. When 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION
a person is at stake and therefore you experience life in a distorted way. That is why 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION
true selfhood. Take for instance the capacity to experience and to give joy. You cannot give joy 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
the surface, and it is quite another to experience it emotionally. In the course of this work 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
you live fully and derive the joy of experience, of growth, of feeling, to a much greater 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
in words or theories, but in your emotional experience. As you well know, these are two very 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
own imperfection can you begin to grow and experience the joy that comes from your own individuality 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
when I hope to be perfect, and finally experience perfect happiness, perfect love, and perfect relationships. This 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
grow steadily in your capacity for full emotional experience. All you have to do is to see 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
solutions and defense mechanisms. If you dare not experience these painful emotions -- perhaps because you shy 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
stronger than they actually are does, in fact, experience very acutely. And I say, my friends, that 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
thrive on emotionalism, this is not the real experience of your soul. You put on the overemotionalism 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
superstructure, which impoverishes your life, your capacity to experience real feelings, and necessitates repression and self-deception. QUESTION 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
I tell you, as you know from previous experience, this will not help very much if you 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
making the best, the fullest, the most meaningful experience out of your life -- in every possible 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
eliminated, if only by some momentary recognition, people experience freedom, renewal and meaningfulness in their lives in 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS
barriers between yourself and others, so you cannot experience life fully. Such a new approach may be 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS
you are admired instead of slighted and you experience satisfaction, revenge and gratified pride. Thus you enjoy 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS
it. In living through such fantasies, you may experience momentary relief, but it is purely illusory. It 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS
your capacity to feel, to live, and to experience reality. This, in turn, creates many vicious circles 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS
will often necessitate some outlet. You may then experience a certain fulfillment in daydreams. Observing and evaluating 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS
the same escape mechanism as your daydreams. You experience either substitute fears or substitute fulfillments. Since you 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS
You therefore create substitute fulfillments, which you partially experience in fantasy. It is as though your psyche 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS
The less developed you are, the more you experience unpleasant truth as harsh and unloving. Separation of 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS
to your problems, to yourselves, to your life experience. Be blessed, every one of you. Blessed are 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS
child's capacity to evaluate is limited, its emotional experience gleaned from the parents is very distorted. In 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
In the crassest case, the child may emotionally experience the parents as either good or bad, strong 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
weak, admirable or despicable. But even if the experience is not so extreme, the child focuses only 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
the channel that enables you to love and experience others in their reality, while you are centered 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
both good and bad, but emotionally you cannot experience this truth, particularly not with regard to your 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
not with regard to your parents. Your emotional experience is always an either/or, and therefore you are 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
for your own sake that your impression and experience of this person be as realistic as possible 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
of your distortions. Ask yourself: How do I experience my parents? Do I experience them as human 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
How do I experience my parents? Do I experience them as human beings in their contradictions, their 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
outlook will gradually change. The facts of your experience will not be eliminated, but the experience will 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
your experience will not be eliminated, but the experience will take on a different meaning and thus 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
be aware of what you feel, how you experience your parents, and how you have been hurt 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
the same with your parents. The moment you experience them in their living reality -- at fault 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
limited, rigid, robot-like image in which you emotionally experience them. Then they become alive. You will understand 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
is a most essential one. The moment you experience the important people of your early environment in 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
to open the way so that you may experience the truth yourself, but this is all they 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
more of a mark than one traumatic shocking experience. That is why the latter is so often 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
own problems. It causes you to forgo the experience of living in the true sense. Most of 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
-- are puzzled by the acute pain you experience. Often you do not quite understand why this 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
the maximum benefit and happiness out of every experience of life. Needless to say, this is never 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
for unsatisfactory solutions. But the pain you now experience is much more the present pain of unfulfillment 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
that you have held in check. When you experience the pain, before crossing the threshold into emotional 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
it. As you encounter the pain, you actually experience the tremendous pressure of your needs. On the 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
that finally will enable you not only to experience the need to give as much as the 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
suddenly. First you have a glimpse, a momentary experience of a new way of feeling. Then it 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
human being. When you submit, you do not experience the truth of the other person's humanity, of 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
a state of defensiveness you do not perceive, experience, or think truthfully or reasonably. You do not 101 THE DEFENSE
and stop defending, the sense of liberation you experience is impossible to convey. You simply have to 101 THE DEFENSE
took hold of you inwardly. You may perhaps experience the same with thoughts, as though a thought 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
with you with a meaningfulness you could not experience in non-involvement or in childish dependency and over- 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
may find yourself on a plateau where you experience, as the result of your efforts, the manifestation 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
You know from life and from your own experience as well as from previous lectures that these 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
yourself to feel love when you do not experience it. In such a case, the wrong kinds 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
it is repelled. See the force in action, experience it without judging yourself. This is the only 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
one direction and partly in another, you will experience a very negative result. You will be stymied 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
will be stymied in your efforts, and will experience failure and frustration. Often you may erroneously believe 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
path such as this, you will come to experience inwardly what some doctrines may teach you in 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
a wish. Isn't a will also nursed by experience and judgment? The reason why I ask is 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
ANSWER: Of course, will is determined also by experience and by what you have learned, not only 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
truly widen your horizon and your ability to experience life as fully as possible. However, if you 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
fore. But this truth will be a personal experience only if and when you remove your hurry 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
But you do not as yet understand, or experience, or are sensitive to the effect that this 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
is alive, it is forever a fresh, spontaneous experience, and you have to guard yourself against losing 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
cannot recapture the inner meaning and the living experience of an expression, be aware of it. Awareness 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
the superficial layers of your personality. When you experience the living spirit of a term, it is 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
by the will, the meaning becomes lifeless. The experience has become a repetitive pattern, and your real 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
thought and will, but of a spontaneous, creative experience that comes into being unbidden, when least expected 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
you think might bring forth such a creative experience. Creation comes unbidden and is unexpected. When you 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
it reacts in forever new ways to each experience and aspect of life. It is never governed 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
mind has made an image out of an experience, has petrified this onetime experience into a general 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
out of an experience, has petrified this onetime experience into a general rule and law, then your 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
law, then your present and future ability to experience the new is limited by its tie to 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
is limited by its tie to the past experience. The freshness goes out of it, and often 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
They believe that they can attain growth and experience the real self by curbing the will, by 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
the constant renewal and regeneration process, the direct experience of creative spontaneity that only the real self 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
who has experienced it, the authenticity of the experience gets lost when thoughts and actions are repeated 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
slaying. Those who do have adopted someone else's experience and sell out their own insights. It is 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
of all preconceived ideas. Perhaps also the past experience of the real self causes one to take 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
of what brings out the real self. Past experience cannot be duplicated in a direct way. But 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
hurry about it -- that can renew the experience. Your real self is covered by false layers 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
again by the same process. Having had that experience of the real self a few times will 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
have not fully understood. When you attained the experience of the real self you were not yet 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
you had the right attitude. Without it this experience is lost again. Instead, there is an expectation 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
awakening causes man to wonder. In this spontaneous experience of wonder and perception, he often has a 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
no longer according to a genuine, spontaneous, creative experience, but to a projection of himself. The more 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
comes to a point, after his original genuine experience and perception turns to a superstition, that makes 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
the way to a more realistic and genuine experience of and relationship to God. During this stage 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
man cultivates this attitude, he makes a genuine experience of God possible. On the other hand, it 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
come to it if you do not first experience, in a negative way, that which is, now 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT

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