The Pathway To Your Results

Pain Is Necessary, Suffering is Optional

• Derick Grant • Season 5 • Episode 222

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We explore how pain signals misalignment and why suffering is the loop we create by resisting change. Red flags become data points, intentions trigger necessary shedding, and accountability ends the pattern that keeps us stuck.

• sponsor update and DG Mindset Academy overview
• red flags redefined as reference and data points
• pain versus suffering and how to end the loop
• matrix of outside-in seeking versus inner alignment
• PRV, CRV, DRV framework for real change
• intention as catalyst for shedding what cannot come
• dumpster story on letting go with gratitude
• mirror questions to break procrastination
• intimacy with pain as a path to progress
• every wound as a doorway back to source

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Once you see what you actually are, that you're an infinite, limitless being, you'll see that nothing exists outside of you. I'm your host, Derek Grant, and this is the Pathway to Your Results Podcast.

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Bro.

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This podcast is sponsored by the DG Mindset Academy School of Growth. Look, I didn't like school growing up if I'm being honest, but I love to learn. And that's why I created this academy. Inside, you'll find a semester-style framework with recorded masterclasses, live eight-week coaching courses that I personally teach, and live QA coaching calls with me. Plus, a community that is built for growth. We're going to talk about entrepreneurship, money, healing, performance, mindset, growth, everything that life entails. The first semester begins November 3rd, but you can start right now. Join today at dgmindset.com. That's dgmindset.com, and I will see you inside. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Pathway Results Podcast. It is your boy DG. We are here. Oh my goodness. Oh my goodness. This is going to be an accountability episode. This episode is going to be, I don't know if it's accountability, but it may be somewhat difficult to hear, to listen to, to feel, but I promise you, as with everything, it will be for the best of you. And I haven't talked to this person in a while. And we were, you know, we had had discussions about this before. And I asked him, I said, how does life feel? And he says, Man, I'm winning. So he started to like break things down. And when he was breaking everything down, he was like, basically, I started a business, opened up a franchise with the intentions of like, you know, this is going to be great. I'm going to do this. And then he ended up opening up saying, like, he lost money. He lost like a million plus dollars in two years. And he was like, man, he's like, if somebody would have told me that I would lose a million dollars in two years and be this happy, he's like, I would never believe it. And I've worked with this guy for a while. Um and we we'd stop working together because I think he had graduated. He was ready to move on. It's like you can't sit here and hold your hand the whole time. I think you're ready to start swimming now. So anyway, he starts swimming and we meet up just to say hello to each other. We haven't talked or seen each other in a while. And he's saying that, you know, explain everything was going on with the business. And he goes, Man, I just I just realized how many red flags there were at the beginning that I ignored. He said, I realized how many times I knew I shouldn't have done this, but I did it anyway because I just wanted to make some money. He said I was looking at it with my head instead of listening to my heart. Okay, now we can go and settle in now. Now that we all here. Now that we're here, we can go ahead and get this show on the road now. See, what a lot of people don't realize is this thing that we refer to as pain. Pain is nothing more than misalignment. Okay. Okay, see, you're gonna make me get off because I don't think you're really trying to hear nothing I'm saying. You really are just misaligned, and that's what you have in your own human terms called pain. But pain is what shows us what we have ignored from the beginning. So he was telling me this story, and he was like, I saw these red flags, and he brought up my situation in Florida. I said, Oh, don't you go there. Don't you, don't you go there? Because I had some, them flags wasn't red. Them flags was every color of the rain, but it was every there were so many red flags I put off. And then I look back on like, man, why did I do that? And here's the thing: don't beat yourself up because it's hindsight will always be 2020 when you look back on something. You're gonna look back on be like, I knew I shouldn't have done that. Well, of course you know you shouldn't have done that because now you know. But back then you didn't know. So I started to think back on my own life. I said, wait a minute, those red flags, they weren't red flags to stop. They were red flags that we could go back to as a point of reference. Good God Almighty, they ain't trying to hear nothing I'm saying right now. You needed them red flags because at the time when the flag was presented, you didn't have the awareness to know what the flag was for. But because it stuck out and you remembered it, and then you gained your awareness. You went through the pain, you went through the process, the struggle. You would have something to look back on to reflect, to be able to say to yourself, Good God almighty, that's why I knew I should have that feeling, that gut feeling in my heart, this voice, I knew I shouldn't have listened to it, but you wouldn't have known unless the red flag had been put there. So, really, them red flags moving forward are checkpoints, but when we look back on it, they become reference points. And see, they did the I heard somebody say this so eloquently in the DG Mindset Academy. They said they're data points. It's a data point. That's where you store the information, you store the data so when you had the level of awareness to be able to look back, you'd be able to see it. Now back to the regular schedule program when I was talking about pain. There's this myth in spiritual uh in spirituality, there's this myth in um uh transformation and self-discovery. We think for some reason that we ain't gonna have no pain. No. No. Hear me when I say this. You're gonna have more pain. You're gonna feel more. Why? Because you see more. But here's the deal, here's the difference. You now understand what the pain is, and you have a different relationship with it. You have a different understanding. So, whenever we have the pain of failure, whenever we have the pain of the uh the breakup, the pain of the heartbreak, the pain of the shortcoming, please understand that that pain is not the proof of failure. It's actually the pathway to freedom. And the universe is giving you, it's giving you the opportunity. I know what some of us are gonna say, well, I'm tired of experiencing pain. You know why we're tired of experiencing pain? Because we ain't learning. Because we ain't learning. Look, I'm gonna go ahead and give you this pill of accountability. You knew I was gonna go and do it, and it's a big one, it's probably about four or five inches long, but we're gonna get it down there. The reason why we are tired of pain is because we keep going in the same loop because we never asked ourselves, what is it that I'm not learning? What is it that I'm ignoring right now? What is it that I'm putting off? You see how this works. So when you start to realize that uh uh this world that we live in, modern spirituality tells us that when we awaken there's no pain or we think that there's no pain. But the ancient masters, the sacred masters, the sacred teachers, those ones who we worship, they knew pain was the way to go. If you're going to follow me, you better pick that motherfucking cross up. If you are going to go through to become all that you truly are, you're gonna have to self-sacrifice. You're gonna have to let go of those parts of you that don't serve you anymore. So I I just I don't I don't think a lot of people really understand there's a hidden sign of pain. Please, please, please, please hear me when I say this because I'm about to start preaching here in a minute. Do not confuse pain with suffering. They are not the same thing. Suffering is self-induced. You are creating the suffering. Life creates the pain. The pain lets you know when you are misaligned, the suffering lets you know when yo ass ain't lured. Excuse me. Excuse me, that slipped out. My apologies. Do you understand how this works? So when we start to realize that that we have these loops, we have these patterns, we have this recurring of the these programs that just keep going and keep going and keep going, and they ain't serving us no purpose right now. They ain't helping us in no way, shape, or form, other than for us to learn from them, but you ain't learning. So that's what we call suffering. And we'll say, Well, I'm so tired of the pain. Uh-uh, don't you try? No, no, don't you change that word. You tired of suffering, but you're not tired enough to the fact that we'll change our pattern. When you start to realize that your life is nothing more than the culmination of all the patterns, all the beliefs, all of the uh perspectives that you have, now you start to realize that shoot, if I got a problem with life, if I got a problem, I got a problem with me. I'm the one creating it. I'm the one who's doing it. And this is really hard for a lot of people to understand because everything outside of you has taught you to think that everything is outside of you. That's the whole deal of the matrix. The matrix grabs your ego, it grabs the one who seeks outside of itself. The universe never created you to seek anything outside of yourself. So when you are suffering, it's because you are attached to something on the outside. But life brings you pain. See, pain can only be felt within. You're going through a heartbreak, you're going through something, you're grieving something. I can't feel that pain from the outside. Only you can feel that from the inside. So when you realize that pain was put on the inside through situations to bring up the parts of you that were misaligned, you'll start to see that this is actually the fire that frees you. This is actually the portal. This is actually the thing that will cast you from darkness into the light so long as you are willing to walk in it, so long as you are willing to face in it. And I know it's difficult. I'm not gonna sit here and say, oh, it's so easy in there. No, it's difficult because you ain't used to it. You know what else was difficult at one point? Walking. Walking. It was difficult because you had never done it before. But as you start to get used to it, as you start to get more acclimated to it, as you start to get uh, as they would say, as you start to get comfortable with it, you'll start to understand the physics of pain. And that pain is actually here to help you. Pain is actually to help you to get more aligned. Pain is actually here to uh show you what parts of you need to be readjusted. What parts of your mind no longer serve you? I was telling somebody in the academy the other day, DG Mindset Academy, we're talking about your PRV, your CRV, and your DRV. Now, these aren't medical terms that you when you go to the doctor and they say, well, you got an inflamed CRV. No, it ain't nothing that had nothing to do with it. Okay. Your CRV is your current reality version. Your PRV is your past reality version. Your DRV is your desired reality version. So you got three of these things walking around, but here's the beauty of it. The PRV is who created the CRV, and the CRV is creating the DRV. So they're really all quantumly entangled with each other. Do you see how this works? But here's what a lot of us do we dream about the DRV, we ignore the CRV, and we live from the PRV. We playing this game backwards, ain't we? We playing the game backwards. But here's the deal the PRV should be also called the pain. Reality version. The pain is from the past. The pain is happening in the present, but it's from the past. It's just showing you where the misalignment occurred, where the program was developed, when you started to believe that you were unworthy, when you started to believe that this was too much, when you started to believe that nobody loves me and I'm not lovable, I'll never find it. When you started to believe that back in the past, this is when the PRV was developed, and now here we are in the CRV carrying it out. So I'm here to tell you something here. Every time that you feel that pain, know that that pain is inside of you. And here's the translation: ready? Here's here's here's here's how you break it down. If I have pain inside of me, it's emotional, it's mental, it's because there is some part of me right now that is not aligned with my divine nature, that is not aligned with my DRV. There is a version of me inside of me that cannot go where I say I want to go. We set intentions and we set goals. And how come every time you set an intention, weeks or months later, life always starts to get hard, life always starts to get painful. It feels like the walls are caving in, bills are stacking up. I don't know how I'm gonna make ends meet. The reason why is because the universe had given you its inspiration through an idea, and now you have this as a goal. And now here's what ends up happening. Its job is to bring up all of the parts of you that are keeping you from this idea, that are keeping you from this manifestation. You don't understand what's going on in this physical reality. Now, if you've been listening to this podcast for a couple of years, hopefully you have some understanding. I'm gonna try to articulate it. When you start to realize that this universe is you and you are it, it is trying to see what it can become through you, and you are trying to see who you can become through it. They're not separate. They never were. So when you realize this, I have cast the intention of what it is that I want to do, and the universe says, he has cast his intention on who he wants to be, and then you say, I am ready to go there. And the universe says, Yes, but we must get rid of parts of us that cannot come. I told you all in an episode a couple weeks back on spiritual relocation, and I was spiritually relocating and moving into a new house. I was leaving the old house. Let me tell you something. I'm gonna tell y'all something. Have you ever moved before? Have you ever moved? That moving is some bullshit. I'm my fingers are raw, my back hurts, I'm tired, I ain't sleeping right. I'm sleeping in a sleeping in a room. I'm like, this don't feel like home yet. What is it gonna feel like home? You still trying to get acclimated, brother. You still trying to get acclimated to your new life. There's a transition period, there's a liminal space that you're gonna go in. But here's my point. Through this journey, I realized we're gonna have to get in a dumpster and throw some of this trash out. Some of the stuff can't come to the new house. So we ordered a dumpster. We that I could, man, let me tell you something. That dumpster got put in that driveway. I was so happy to get rid of some things. I was throwing it in. I was I was the cleanup man. I was throwing away any and everything that I could. Here, couch, you go in there. Here, bed frame, you go in there. I was throwing away everything. We filled that trash can up in about 20 minutes. I said, What in the world are we gonna do? I told Carly, I said, go ahead and get another dumpster. I got some stuff I gotta throw out. I got some things I gotta get rid of. Ordered another dumpster. Within 10 minutes, that thing was full. I mean, I filled it up to the brim. Got rid of that, and I'm like, oh my goodness. We still have more stuff that I gotta get rid of. Do I need to get another dumpster? And see, here's the conflict. Ready? Here's the conflict now. I start to justify and say, well, I don't want to burden the trash can company because they were only supposed to bring one dumpster. Now here they are, maybe possibly bringing three. And how many times do we do this? We will hold on to our old baggage because we don't want to burden somebody. Y'all ain't trying to hear nothing I'm saying. I'm getting off this month. Y'all ain't trying to hear nothing. You ain't trying to hear nothing. We are afraid to be a burden to someone else, but we'll sit here and carry our trash and we'll sit here and hold on to it. And I said to myself, this is deeper than this trash. I gotta let go of this old life. So I said, go ahead and get the other dumpster. Finally got everything out of the house. Threw everything out, right? Now they were supposed to pick trash up on uh Sunday, Saturday, pick up the dumpster. We had to be out of the house by Monday. All of a sudden, Monday, I start getting all these calls and they start saying, Well, there's a dumpster in the driveway. Now, this is indigenous uh people, uh, whatever the name the holiday is. I I'm all for it. I'd love them to change the name, but I just don't remember the name, right? And it's indigenous, and it ain't Columbus Day no more. We did away with that. We awakened. We ain't calling it Columbus Day no more. But I'm like, why are they not removing it Monday? It was a holiday. So then Tuesday morning, I'm getting all these calls from the from the people, the landlord and the property management company, and they're saying it's still there's still a trash can. There's still a trash. We can't get in and get women either. I'm like, dang, why is this trash? So I go back over by the house. You all tell me. You tell me, well, I got to that trash can. There was some trash in it that wasn't mine. Oh, well, this is who's throwing trash in this dumpster and who's doing this? But here's my point. Here's my point. I don't know whose trash it was. I have no idea. But isn't it funny? When we start getting rid of our extra baggage and our extra trash, some reason it gives other people to start doing the same thing in their life. Good God Almighty, you ain't trying to hear nothing. When you start clearing out these things in your life, you're gonna start giving permission to those around you to start to do the same. And now, now, and now, and now you realize that every time I'm feeling this pain, it's because there's a dumpster that's being dropped off because I gotta get rid of some things in my life. And then here's the beauty of it I got rid of everything, cleared everything out of the house, and I was the last one to leave, and I walked back through this house. And I went to each and every room and expressed my gratitude and my thanks. Every single room was a thank you. This was the house that I grew up in. This was the house that I awakened in. This was the house that the soul came back online. This was the house that the life's purpose would be carried out through. And for that I'm grateful. And the reason why I'm saying this is because don't think that that trash that you were throwing out, that baggage that you were getting rid of, that the pain brought up, don't think that that didn't serve a purpose in your life. It absolutely did. But it only served a purpose to a point. So this is where I'm telling you sometimes we have to let go, sometimes we have to hold on. My mother used to tell me this, Mom, I know you're gonna hear this podcast, and you're gonna say, Yeah, I see, you were listening when I was talking to you. Yeah, I was listening, but I didn't want to hear it all the time, but I heard everything you were saying. She used to say, sometimes things are just for a reason or they're for a season. I want to go ahead and uh make an amendment to that and just say that everything is for a season. Everything. That belief system that you have. Oh, it works now, but it's only gonna get you to a point. Oh, that relationship, you know that old crusty-dusty relationship you got in when you was feeling low in your self-worth. That one. Oh, that don't work anymore. You gotta let that one go because you ain't the same one who got in that relationship. That job that you at, you love working for that paycheck. But now you start to realize your own value. Now you start to realize your own capability. You sitting here building somebody else's dream, and you starting to see yourself as more capable of building your own. And you say, I'm not doing this anymore. I'd rather be out here living free and living through risk than me taking this paycheck, feeling like I am a slave to somebody else. My point of this is everything can only last up until a point. As you continue to evolve, as you continue to change, as you continue to go through this evolutionary process, everything around you is going to change. That's why the pain comes. That's why it's quote unquote so hard. It's because the pain is nothing more than the funeral. It's the funeral for the old you. That you who you are so stubborn to let go of. And you and ready? Ready? Remember, I told you about the red flags? We see red flags. You know good and well that that version of you ain't working no more. Don't you? Yeah, go ahead and raise your hand. Not if you're driving. If you're driving, don't raise your hand. Go ahead and wave your feet if you need to. Not if you're driving, though. Yeah, go ahead and wave them all. Go ahead and blink your eyelashes, do whatever you need to do. Yeah, you're right. I know it's not. So now the question is here's the real question that you ask yourself. Okay, you gotta look yourself in the mirror when you say this. You gotta ask yourself, look yourself in the mirror. And then we're gonna make it so clear and so easy. Well, if you know it's not working, why are you still doing it? Now go ahead and answer it. Go ahead and answer. Because when you say it out loud, you're like, what in the f what am I doing? It be like this. You're gonna go ahead and drink some cyanide, but you talk about you want to live forever. And then somebody says, Why are you drinking that cyanide? That's what we do. We won't hold on to something. Why? Why? Because we run away from the pain. We run away from the pain. Every time that you run away from pain, all you're doing is entrapping yourself in the loop of suffering. Go ahead. I just gave you a bar. You can go ahead and tag me on and put it on your story. You can go ahead. Every time that you run away from pain, all you are doing is entrapping yourself in suffering. Liberation, freedom, peace. It does not come from you retreating in life. It comes from you becoming intimate with it. See, when you become intimate with it, you become one with it. You stop seeing the pain as something that's separate. You stop seeing the argument, the heartbreak, and the challenge as something that's separate from you. You start to realize that this is my opportunity for me to purify. This is my opportunity for me to become whole. And now you'll start to realize that dang, I don't break things down into good or bad anymore. I don't say something good or bad. I just first ask myself, what is this trying to help me with? What is this trying to show me? See, now when you don't divide your experiences into good and bad, guess what you just done? You just eliminated suffering. And if I eliminate suffering, now I can step towards the pain. If I can step towards the pain, now I can get to the progress. If I can get to the progress, I will start to purify. When I start to purify, I will awaken. And when I awaken, I will ascend. And when I ascend, I will expand. And when I expand, everything around me has to expand. So go ahead and start to do some uh do an audit of your life. Do an audit of your life and start to look at some of these parts of yourself that you've been running from. The pain that you've been putting off. The pain that you scared to that you're scared to deal with. True story. True story. I got a I got an athlete that I work with. Had some issues going on with his father for years. And he had an injury in his in his abdomen. And I said, How long have you had this injury? He said, Man, it's been hurting for about six weeks, but it's been really bad for about two. I said, Well, I talk to you every week. I never you never said anything about this. You haven't said one word about it. But see, over the coming over the last couple weeks, he had been different. Different. Didn't have any drive. He's questioning whether or not he even wants to play sports anymore. And I'm like, I'm sitting here listening, who is this? Who is this? Well, then he went ahead and went to the doctor. And he said to me, he said, I didn't want to go to the doctor because I was afraid of what they might tell me. I said, okay. I said, let me ask you something. This injury that you're dealing with, is it on your right side? He said, the pain is on the left side, but the damage is on the right side. I said, so if you have to have surgery, they're gonna go into the right side. He said, Yeah. I said, That right side, you know that's the manly side. That's the father's side. And you see how you didn't want to go to the doctor because you were afraid of what they were gonna say? That's the same thing that you're doing right now with your father. You afraid to have that conversation, you afraid to reconcile that peace. You afraid to go back and patch up those things because you were afraid of what might happen. You might have to deal with the sting of rejection again from your father. You may have to deal with the sting of abandonment from him again. But I told him, I said, you stop running away from the pain. Stop running away from it. Just like you finally went to the doctor, and then I talked to him, he was like a completely different person. He said, Man, I feel back to myself. Why? Because you did what was hard. You went towards the pain instead of running away from it. And here's the deal. Wouldn't you rather know what the issue was than to just keep putting it off? Anyone here struggling with procrastination?

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Man, let me tell you something. There's nothing worse. I I don't procrastinate in life, but I'll tell you what I did procrastinate in life. I was the procrastinator of all procrastinators when it came to doing schoolwork. Especially when I get to college, when I got to college, because I didn't have my mom breathing down my neck talking about, did you do your homework? I was the guy who would wait to the last minute to write a 30-page paper. I'm talking about like stay up all night, get a bunch of Red Bulls, and I'm gonna stay up and we just go. What do we call them? We call them all-nighters. All nighters? All I did was induce suffering for the next week. So for everybody here, you gotta understand how this works. Your freedom does not come to you by running away from it. Your freedom comes by you allowing it to move through you. You gotta allow it to move through you. This is why we go through the pain. Because when we go through the pain now, we feel everything. And when we feel everything, we have more awareness. And when we have more awareness, now we let the emotions finish the sentence. Now we can allow ourselves to feel all of these things that we have been suppressing. So for you, I know life's gonna be hard and it's gonna be challenging, but that's just a perspective. Because believe it or not, as hard as it is, there's somebody in this world that would give anything to have that life that you have. Y'all ain't trying to hear nothing. If we want to invoke gratitude, I've been around the world. I've been to 70, 70 different countries. I've seen the worst of the worst. And I say that in air quotes because it's all relative. But the problems that you have in life, somebody would do anything to have those. Maybe that's what I need to do. I need to go have a retreat somewhere so y'all can so we can see. You'll be like, why in the world are we having a retreat here? This is called the gratitude retreat. We're gonna spend three days here, and you, I guarantee, when you go back to your life, you'll be like, man, I ain't got nothing to complain about. I ain't got nothing to man. It was hard, but that ain't nothing compared to what I've seen over here. This this podcast, though, was intended for you to start to become aware and start to break up your life from pain and suffering. Those are not the two same things. They're not. So before we sit here and say something is hard, why don't we ask ourselves this question? Why do I keep doing this to myself? That's a hard pill of swallow. That's the pill of accountability. But when you do this, I promise you, I promise you, you're going to grow. You're going to evolve. We think that pain is like something that we're, I told you, spiritual, especially a lot of spiritual communities, think it's supposed to be hunky-dory when you go through this awakening and you start, they ain't, they ain't never what it's gonna be. That ain't what it is. So now we think that like for some reason pain is like a flaw in the mechanism of the universe, in the design. Do we not realize that pain is the design? It was built in for you to become aware of those parts that you were running away from. It's almost like as if God, the source, the creator, Allah, Brahmin, the absolute, the all. It's almost as if it knew your butt was gonna be hard-headed. She ain't gonna learn and she ain't gonna do it. She ain't gonna, that's what the universe is saying. She ain't gonna do it. I'm telling you, Metatron, I'm telling you, she ain't gonna do it. She's gonna run and he gonna run away from it. So here's what we're gonna do. Listen, no, no, hold on now. Let me go ahead and build this thing. We're gonna we're gonna do it, we're gonna build it. We're gonna go ahead and put this thing in here. And it's gonna be called pain. Okay? And we're gonna have a lot of different other words, and they're gonna be layers. We're gonna call it adversity and struggle and hardship and heartbreak. The humans are gonna love heartbreak. They're gonna love that one. And we're gonna call it uh uh what else are they gonna call it anyway? Let me get back to it, okay? I got a lot of things going on. But here's what we're gonna do we're gonna build this into the game. So we When they get in the game, their hard-headed behind will have no choice, no choice but to continue to grow. And that way, when they come back, when they come back over to this side, they can't point fingers at anybody. They can't blame we put it in the game, so you could grow. Don't you come back over here, Felicia, talk about, well, when I was a human, I couldn't grow and I couldn't learn. Nope. You weren't learning from the pain that you were going through. So start to look at your life. Start to look and see all these places in your life that are really hard. And don't talk around it. Sometimes we get really good at this. We will talk around the pain. We will talk about it. We'll get in circles and we'll get in communities and we'll get in uh what do you call these uh bonfires and we'll sit and talk about all everything. But talk is as cheap as it comes. I'm gonna need some action if I'm gonna really make some change. Because only when I produce action am I acting as the version of me who I'm truly capable of being. Do we see how this works? So now, as we go through the pain, we evolve, we grow. But hold on now. As we grow and we evolve and we become more self-aware, we get closer back to the source. So really, every wound, good God Almighty, I don't think you understand what I'm about to say to you. Every wound, every hardship, every red flag that you ignored, every heartbreak, everything that you ever went through that you feel like set you back and it hurt so bad, this was nothing more than a doorway back to God. It was a doorway back to the source of everything. It was a doorway back to yourself. So before you cuss that marriage out that didn't work in that partner, before you look at the fact that he died too early or she left this world too early, look at the change that it spurred inside of you. Look at the catalyst that it was to get you to start to awaken. So really, this was a doorway back to yourself, and you were the source of everything in your life. So I'm gonna leave you with this. If pain is the flame, don't run from the fire. Don't run from the fire. I told you in that podcast a couple weeks ago. You remember that story of Meshach, Shadrach, and Abendigo? I'm getting chills right now. I see. I was about to wrap up this podcast. You're about to get me going again. They got thrown in the fire, but they didn't even get burned, and they didn't even have a smell of smoke on their clothes. So the reason why I'm saying that is because the pain that you're gonna go through, the adversity, the hardship, it ain't gonna burn you. It's gonna burn off the old parts of you. That's what it was intended for. And now you don't have to run from the flame now. Because you realize that you were the source of the light to begin with. So you know, as always, I'm gonna be here cheering you on. I'm gonna be here cheering you on and saying, go, go, keep going, keep on going. I know it's hard, but keep going. I know it's tough, keep on going. I know it feels like it ain't worth it, keep on going. Just put one foot in front of the other. Do we not realize that this is a microcosm of how we get anywhere in life? It's just one step at a time. If you only focus on one step, I promise you, I swear, as an old folk, you should say, I swear for Lord, you'll get right. You will get there. You will make it. But a part of that is the pain that's encoded in it. Pain isn't optional, it's a part of the game. Suffering is optional. That's a choice that we consciously or unconsciously make. I wish you nothing but the best on the pathway to your results.