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YoniSpeak: Why is it so hard to be Good?
A question answered by YoniSpeak... Q: I have a question about when the old patterns come back in, and you see them and you don’t change them. The things you know aren’t in your highest good or on your path, unhealthy behaviors. You’ll go on a cleanse and after you finish the cleanse, then you eat everything in sight and go the opposite. Why is it so hard?
A: Because we don’t always choose green juice. Because the idea that you’re supposed to choose green juice all the time is the resistance from which you can’t choose green all the time. Because you are playing in the mud, not playing in heaven, sterile. We’re not home now. We’re in the playground, in the mud, making cookies out of mud and eating them accidentally sometimes. We’re just not at home. That’s not where we are. We’re not here to be enlightened. You can if you want to. Would you come to Earth to be enlightened? To be enlightened, to start off enlightened and just remain enlightened? Yaaawwwn. Would you come to earth to slowly move in the direction of being enlightened and then encounter struggle and setbacks and then move close to it and then fall away and then get enlightened and then smack and become an alcoholic and then. . .is Earth the right place for that? Yeah. Big picture. I’m not saying its great to go out there and get alcoholic. I’m saying--- big picture, bigger picture. The new energy that’s coming through, the new laws of the universe---same ones but a lot of veils are being lifted and you get to see Oh that’s right, that’s the law of the universe: what you resist you draw. I can’t eat a hamburger, I want a hamburger, no hamburgers, no hamburgers for you! Bad hamburger, bad hamburger! God I want a burger. I’m a bad person because I want a burger--- oh, here we go, Jesus. Please, stick to the big picture, and be kind to yourself!
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