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Why Carl Jung Believed You Must Face Your Darkness to Grow
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May 12, 2025
Carl Jung believed that the parts of ourselves we try to hide or deny — our shadow — are the very keys to growth, healing, and freedom. In this deep-dive voiceover, we explore: What the shadow is and how it forms Why avoiding it leads to emotional pain, failed relationships, and identity crises How to begin shadow work and reclaim your wholeness What life feels like after shadow integration This isn't just psychology. It's a blueprint for becoming real. 🔔 Subscribe for more soul-shifting content. 💬 Leave a comment — what part of you are you ready to reclaim? 📤 Share with someone who's ready to come home to themselves. For more insights on human behavior psychology, relationship quotes, love text messages, birthday wishes and much more, visit https://bayart.org/ - New Perspective on Life & Love 🫶 Daily inspirational posts and deep quotes about love, life, happiness, relationships and much more. #motivation #inspiration #lifelessons #advice #status #mindset #lifechanging #selfgrowth #selfhelp #wisewords #wordsofwisdom #psychologyquotes
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have you ever wondered why you keep
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repeating the same patterns why you push
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people away even when all you want is
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closeness why there's this strange ache
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under the surface even when life looks
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okay from the outside carl Young one of
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the most influential psychologists of
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all time believed there's a reason for
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this he called it the shadow and he said
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"If you never face it it quietly runs
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your life." In this video we're not just
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talking about psychology we're talking
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about your survival your growth your
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transformation because your darkness
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isn't the problem pretending it's not
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there is why you feel stuck let's start
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with something honest most people aren't
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living they're managing managing
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emotions they don't understand managing
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relationships that feel slightly out of
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reach managing anxiety procrastination
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burnout as if these are just normal
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parts of adulthood but beneath all that
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there's something deeper something
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unspoken the fear that maybe this is all
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there is you've probably felt it at
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night right before sleep or when you're
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alone and the distractions finally quiet
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down that's when it creeps in a subtle
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sadness a restlessness you can't name
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it's not depression exactly it's not
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grief it's more like emptiness carl Jung
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believed that this emptiness isn't just
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random he said it comes from
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disconnection not just from others but
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from yourself you've built a personality
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a mask to survive this world but in
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doing that you've buried parts of you
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that didn't fit anger jealousy shame
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desire rebellion sensitivity
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vulnerability and here's the catch those
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parts didn't disappear they became your
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shadow and unless you face it you'll
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keep feeling stuck repeating the same
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emotional loops wondering why nothing
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ever truly changes this isn't about
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blaming yourself this is about
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reclaiming yourself introducing Jung's
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shadow carl Jung's concept of the shadow
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is one of the most powerful and most
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misunderstood ideas in all of psychology
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when Jung talked about the shadow he
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didn't mean something evil he meant
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something hidden the shadow is made of
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everything you've disowned in yourself
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the impulses you were told to suppress
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the traits you were punished for
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expressing the emotions you learned to
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deny maybe you were told to stop being
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so sensitive so now you act tough and
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detached but deep down you feel
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everything maybe you were shamed for
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being angry so now you people please but
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resentment simmers just beneath the
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surface maybe you learned that love only
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comes when you perform so now you're
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exhausted from pretending to be what
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everyone else wants jung said that
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whatever we repress doesn't just vanish
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it hides it fers it grows stronger and
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over time it begins to act out in
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strange painful ways you sabotage
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relationships you care about you
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overreact to things that seem small you
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chase people who hurt you or push away
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people who see you all of that is the
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shadow at work but here's the paradox
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your shadow isn't your enemy it's your
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teacher jung believed that the path to
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true wholeness is not to become perfect
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but to become real and to become real
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you have to meet your shadow face to
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face what happens when you avoid the
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shadow now let's talk about what happens
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when you don't when you avoid your
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shadow when you pretend you're only
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light and love the darkness doesn't go
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away it leaks jung warned that until you
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make the unconscious conscious it will
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direct your life and you will call it
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fate that's exactly what happens when we
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don't face the shadow you don't
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understand why your relationships keep
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ending the same way you don't know why
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you explode in anger at people you love
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you don't know why you keep chasing
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validation from the very people who make
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you feel small but all of it is part of
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an unconscious pattern a script you're
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living without realizing it here's the
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dangerous part if you never look at your
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shadow you'll project it onto others
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you'll judge people for traits you're
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afraid to admit you have you'll resent
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people who live with a freedom you
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secretly crave you'll hate in others
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what you've never allowed in yourself
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that's how war starts inside families
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inside nations inside the human soul
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young didn't just want us to be happier
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he wanted us to be whole because without
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facing your shadow happiness is always
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temporary it's borrowed it's conditional
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you don't become powerful by suppressing
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your pain you become powerful by
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understanding it by making peace with it
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how to face it young's real path to
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growth so how do you face your shadow
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yung believed that the process starts
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with honesty radical unfiltered honesty
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you begin by observing your reactions
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noticing what triggers you noticing
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where you feel envy defensiveness rage
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insecurity these aren't random emotions
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they are clues the people who annoy you
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the most they often reflect something
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unresolved in you the moments where you
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feel most ashamed that's where your
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inner child still lives still trying to
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be loved still hiding shadow work isn't
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about fixing yourself it's about
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uncovering yourself here's how you begin
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journal your emotional reactions ask
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"What does this remind me of?" or when
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have I felt this
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before notice patterns in your
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relationships who triggers you who
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drains you what roles do you keep
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playing sit with discomfort instead of
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distracting yourself get curious about
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your feelings talk to the parts you've
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rejected literally write to your anger
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your fear your shame ask them why
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they're here at first it will feel
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strange you'll want to run you'll tell
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yourself it's not that deep but if you
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stay if you're gentle and honest
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something incredible starts to happen
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you begin to reclaim your energy you
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stop leaking power into fear performance
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people pleasing self-doubt and for the
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first time in a long time you feel whole
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again not perfect whole what it feels
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like after integration so what does life
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look like on the other side it's not
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like the pain disappears but it changes
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you stop running from yourself you stop
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apologizing for who you are your
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relationships get deeper because you're
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no longer pretending you're no longer
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hiding the parts of you that were once
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unacceptable you feel more grounded less
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reactive less trapped in stories about
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who you're supposed to be and strangely
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you start to feel lighter because the
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weight wasn't life the weight was all
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the energy it took to deny your truth
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carl Young once said "The privilege of a
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lifetime is to become who you truly
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are." That privilege is not earned
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through perfection it's earned through
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integration when you meet your shadow
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not with fear but with
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curiosity you take the first step toward
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becoming whole not in a way the world
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recognizes but in a way your soul
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remembers if this message stirred
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something in you don't ignore it your
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shadow has waited long enough maybe
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today is the day you stop trying to fix
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yourself and start learning to listen
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because the real you isn't missing the
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real you is waiting waiting to be seen
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heard held chosen by you and if you
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choose that if you take even one step
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toward yourself today then you've
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already started healing not in the way
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the world celebrates but in the quiet
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sacred way that changes
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