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A student's approved way of describing the ascent from self-enclosure toward less self-centered attachment.
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ego dissipates
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "Can we say the ego dissipates as we go up? So, pride, you're loving yourself. And by the end, greed, gluttony, and lust, you're..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "Can we say the ego dissipates as we go up? So, pride, you're loving yourself. And by the end, greed, gluttony, and lust, you're..."
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"Can we say the ego dissipates as we go up? So, pride, you're loving yourself. And by the end, greed, gluttony, and lust, you're..."
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"...constantly being changed, right? Snakes take over their bodies and then dissipates their soul, then they're resurrected and then snakes take over their souls..."
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"...okay, so... But when I read the Divine Comedy, all that dissipates, right? And that anger... Those memories, for whatever reason, they just float..."
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"...of jesus right god is angry at us in order to dissipate his anger he might sacrifice his only son jesus okay that this..."
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"Once your ego and your fear dissipate, you can now resurrect yourself as you truly are. Okay? Again, this is a theory. I'm not..."
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"...need to engage in certain conflict and warfare in order to dissipate or reduce domestic tension in order to advance a deal. Okay? Does..."
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"...forcing it to rain. When you do that, well, the clouds dissipate the rain elsewhere, and they don't go to Iran. So in 2019,..."
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"...that's kind of paper thin. It's an appearance that's going to dissipate because it's failing. And then those forces that are still for Make..."
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"...soul, um, but then there's parts of us as well that dissipates into the ether. Okay? So it's very complicated. I can't really describe..."
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"...say this is follow your heart okay ignore what others think dissipate your fears okay kill your fears and just believe in yourself for..."
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"...a collection of matter, of atoms, of synapses, and once we dissipate, then we're gone. And it's this fear of death that allows the..."
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"...lot of his army will desert him. So basically his army dissipates and he's allowed to go to France. And William of Orange bloodlessly..."
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