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Translator: Delia Bogdan
Reviewer: Denise RQ
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It's such a thrill for me to be here.
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And I'm so happy to see all of you.
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You know, one of the biggest reasons
that I'm happy to be here
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is because I shouldn't be alive today.
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I should have died
on February, 2, 2006.
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That was supposed to be
my last day here, in this physical life,
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because on that day, the doctors
had told my husband and my family
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that I only had a few more hours to live.
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I was dying from N-stage lymphoma,
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which is a form of cancer
of the lymph nodes.
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I had struggled with cancer
for four years up to that point.
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For four years, this disease
had devoured my body.
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It had traveled
through my lymphatic system.
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It started with a lump in my neck,
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and then, it spread
throughout my lymphatic system
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and by that point,
by the end of four years,
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I had tumors,
some of them the size of lemons
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that had spread from the base of my skull
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all around my neck, down into my chest,
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under my arms,
and all the way to my abdomen.
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By that point also,
even before I had gone into the coma,
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my lungs had been filled with fluid,
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and every time I would lay down,
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I would choke on my own fluid.
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My muscles had completely deteriorated
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so I weight about 85 pounds.
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I looked like just a skeleton
with skin on.
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I had these big gaping-opened skin lesions
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where the toxins
were oozing out of my body.
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I wasn't able to digest any food.
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I had a persistent low grade fever,
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I couldn't walk,
because my muscles had been deteriorated,
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so I was constantly just lying down
or been taken around in a wheel chair.
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I was connected
to an oxygen tank all the time.
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I couldn't breathe
without the aid of oxygen.
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And on that morning, on February, 2, 2006,
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I went into a coma.
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The doctors had said
these were my final hours
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because now my organs had shut down,
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my organs were failing;
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so my family were told that if there was
anybody that had to see me before I died,
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this was the time.
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Unbeknownst to everyone around me though,
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even though it appeared
that I was in a coma,
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and my eyes were closed,
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I was aware
of everything that was going on
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all around me.
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I was aware of my husband
who was distressed,
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but he was by my side holding my hand.
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I was aware of everything
the doctors were doing:
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they were putting tubes in me,
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they were removing fluid from my lungs
so that I could breathe easier.
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I was aware of every single thing
that was happening.
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It felt as though I had
a 360-degree peripheral vision.
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I could see everything happening
all around my body.
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But not just in the room
where my body was, but even beyond.
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And it was as if I had expanded
out of my body.
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I was aware of my physical body,
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I could see it, lying there
on that hospital bed,
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but I was no longer attached to that body.
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It felt as though I could be everywhere
at the same time.
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It was like wherever I put
my awareness, there I was.
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I was aware of my brother,
who was in India.
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My body, I was in Hong Kong.
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This was happening to me in Hong Kong.
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My brother was in India
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and was rushing to get on a plane
to come and see me.
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He wanted to see me
before I took my last breath.
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And I was aware of that.
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I felt as though I was with him.
I saw him on the plane.
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And then I also became aware
of my father and my best friend,
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both of whom I had lost.
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Both of them had crossed over, had died.
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But I became aware
of their presence with me,
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as though they were guiding me
and communicating with me.
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One thing that I felt
in this amazing expansive state,
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I felt I was in like a realm of clarity,
where I understood everything.
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I understood why I had cancer.
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I understood that I was much greater,
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in fact all of us are much greater
and more powerful than we realize
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when we're in our physical bodies.
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I also felt as if I was connected
to everybody,
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like all the doctors
that were treating me, the nurses,
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my husband, my mother, my brother,
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and everybody, I felt as though
we all shared the same consciousness.
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I felt as though I could feel
what they were feeling,
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I could feel the distress
they were feeling,
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I could feel
the resignation of the doctors.
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But at the same time, I didn't get
emotionally sucked into the drama,
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but yet, I understood
what they were feeling.
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It's like we all share
the same consciousness,
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it's like when we're not expressing
in our physical bodies,
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you, and I, and all of us, we're all
expressions of the same consciousness.
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That's what it felt like.
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I felt as though my father
was trying to communicate with me
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that it wasn't my time,
that I needed to go back into my body.
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At first, I didn't want to go back,
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because I still felt
as though I had a choice,
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weather to come back or not.
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So at first, I absolutely did not want
to go back into my body
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because I couldn't see
a single good reason
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to go back into this sick and dying body.
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I was a burden on my family,
I was suffering, there was no good reason.
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So I didn't want to go back.
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But in the next instant,
it felt as if I completely understood
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that now that I knew what I knew,
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and because I understood
what caused the cancer,
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I knew that if I chose
to go back to my body,
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my body would heal very, very quickly.
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And so, in that moment,
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I made the decision to go back,
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and I heard as though my father
and my best friend said to me,
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"Now that you know the truth
of who you really are,
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go back and live your life fearlessly."
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And it was in those moments
that I woke up from the coma.
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And my family was so relieved to see me.
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And the doctors, they couldn't explain it.
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The doctors were there,
and they were surprised,
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but they were being very, very cautious,
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because there was no way
of knowing; I was still so weak.
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There was no way for anyone to know
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weather I was going to stay out
of the coma, or heal, or go back.
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But I knew I was going to be fine,
and I was telling my whole family,
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"I'm going to be fine, I know
I'm going to be fine. It's not my time."
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Within five days, the tumors
in my body had shrunk by 70%.
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After five weeks, I was released
from the hospital to go home.
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I was completely cancer free.
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Now, what has happened
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is that I've had to pick up
my life from that point,
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and as you can imagine,
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my life feels completely different.
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It changed my view of the world.
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That experience changed my view
of our physical bodies,
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of my physical body, of illness,
and how I perceive the world.
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I found it very difficult
to integrate back into life again,
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after that experience.
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And the best way I can think of
to explain what it feels like
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would be to use metaphors.
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And a metaphor that I like to use
is one of a warehouse.
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I'd like you to imagine, if you will,
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we are in a totally darkened warehouse
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that's pitch black.
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Just imagine that right now,
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you're in a warehouse
that's completely pitch black,
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and you can't see anything
because it's so dark.
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You can't see anything
in front of you, anywhere.
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But imagine that in your hand,
you hold a little flashlight.
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Just a little flashlight.
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And you switch on that flashlight,
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and with that flashlight,
you navigate your way through the dark.
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And you use just the beam
of that little flashlight
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to navigate your way in the dark.
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And everything that you see
in the warehouse
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is only what you can see
with the beam of that flashlight.
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Now imagine
if the beam is shining over there,
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all you see is what's over there.
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Everything else is in darkness.
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You shine the beam over there,
and all you see is that spot there.
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Everything else is in darkness
except for the light of the beam.
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Now imagine one day big floodlights go on
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so the whole warehouse is illuminated,
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and you realize this warehouse is huge.
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It's bigger
than you've ever imagined it to be.
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And it's lined with shelves,
and shelves, and shelves
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of all kinds of different things.
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Every kind of thing you can imagine,
and things you can't even imagine,
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all exist on these shelves,
side by side by side.
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Some of these things are beautiful,
some not so beautiful,
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some large, some small,
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some things in colors
you've never ever seen before,
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colors you've never imagined to exist,
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and some things
that are strange and funny looking,
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all exist side by side,
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and you've seen some of them before
with your flashlight,
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but many of them
you've never seen before
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because your flashlight
had never shone on them.
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Now imagine
if the lights go back off again,
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and you're back to one flashlight.
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Now, even though all of you can see
is what you see with the one flashlight,
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the beam of one flashlight,
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at least you now know
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there is so much more that exists
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simultaneously and alongside
the things that you can't see.
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You now know
that just because you cannot see them,
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you cannot experience it,
doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
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You now know that
because you've had that experience.
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That's what it feels like to me.
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It feels like so much more exists
than what we believe,
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so much more exists
than what we have experienced.
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It's just beyond our flashlight.
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And just to help you understand that
a little bit better,
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I'd like to try a little game,
a little experiment with you.
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I want you to look around the room
and find everything you can
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that is shades of red,
everything from red to burgundy.
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Just look around
and commit it to your memory.
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As many as possible.
Commit it to your memory.
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Because I'm going to ask you to recall it.
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OK. Close your eyes, face to front.
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Now how many things can you recall
that are blue in color?
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(Laughter)
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Almost none. Think about it, almost none.
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Open your eyes and look around.
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See how many blue things there were
that exist alongside the red,
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but you didn't even notice it,
you didn't see it.
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Why? Because you weren't aware of it.
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The beam of that flashlight, what is that?
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That is your awareness.
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That beam is your awareness.
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When you flash
your awareness on something,
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it becomes your reality,
it becomes what you experience.
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There can be something else
that's right under your nose,
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but if your flashlight
is not shining on it,
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you won't even notice it;
you won't even be aware of it.
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Think about this,
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think about all the billions of dollars
we're spending on cancer awareness.
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Think about
all the cancer awareness campaigns.
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Imagine if we put that much money,
energy, and effort into wellness awareness
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what a different world we would have.
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Imagine if we put
all our effort into peace
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instead in into fighting and wars.
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We would have a very different world
if we changed our awareness.
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To bring it down
onto a more personal level,
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I want to share with you
the five biggest lessons
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I learned from this experience.
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Number one, the most important thing
that I learned,
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the most important thing we have here,
to focus our awareness on, is love.
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That is number one.
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And when I say love,
it's very easy to say, or for us to say,
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"We need to love other people."
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But one of the things I learned
is that one of the reasons I got cancer
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is because I didn't love myself.
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That's hugely important.
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When we love ourselves,
we value ourselves.
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When we value ourselves,
we teach people how to treat us.
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When you love yourself, you find no need
to control or bully other people
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nor do you allow other people
to control or bully you.
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So loving yourself is as important
as loving everybody else.
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And the more you love yourself,
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the more love you have
to give other people.
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Number two,
the next biggest lesson I learned,
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was to live life fearlessly.
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Most of us are brought up
on a diet of fear.
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We're taught to fear everything.
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I used to fear everything,
I used to fear cancer,
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I used to fear eating the wrong foods,
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I used to fear displeasing people.
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I feared just about everything.
I feared failing,
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and most of us are brought up
fearing everything.
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And people think that fear keeps you safe;
that's actually not true.
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Love keeps you safe.
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When you love yourself,
and when you love other people,
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you make sure that you keep yourself safe
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and that you keep other people
out of danger's way.
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Love keeps you much safer than fear does.
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The third thing I learned
that is so important
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is humor, and laughter, and joy.
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We're born knowing this stuff.
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We're born knowing
that it's important to laugh
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because that's what kids do all the time.
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We're born knowing love and fearlessness,
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but it gets conditioned
out of us as we grow up.
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Laughter is so important, and humor,
and finding your joy in life.
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It's more important than any other
spiritual activity that you can think of.
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If we had more laughter, in fact,
if even our politicians learn to laugh,
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we'd have a very different world.
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And if we had more laughter,
you'd have less people with illness,
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you'd need less hospitals,
and you'd need less prisons as well.
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The fourth thing I learned
is that life is a gift.
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It really is.
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Most of us live our lives
as though life is a chore,
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but it shouldn't be that way.
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And it's unfortunate
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that only when we loose
something that we value
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do we really realize the true value of it.
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And it took me losing my life
to realize the value of my life.
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And I don't want other people
to make the same mistake
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which is why I'm standing here
sharing my message.
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Because I don't want
people to realize when it's too late
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the value of their life.
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And your life is a gift.
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Even the challenges
that come to you are a gift.
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When I had cancer,
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that was the biggest challenge
I could ever have,
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but today when I look back on it,
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I feel it's the biggest gift
I could have had.
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People think that the cancer,
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or even I thought,
the cancer was killing me,
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but actually I was killing myself
before I got cancer.
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The cancer saved my life.
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All your challenges are gifts.
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In the end, you will always find
that your challenges are a gift.
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And if you're really challenged,
and it doesn't feel like a gift yet,
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it means you haven't got to the end yet.
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The fifth and final thing
which is so important that I learned
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is that the most important thing for you
is to always be yourself.
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Be as you as you can be.
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Shine your light as brightly as you can.
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Embrace your uniqueness.
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Just realize who you are,
get to know who you are,
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love yourself unconditionally,
and just be yourself.
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And with those five things,
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I invite you to go
and live your life fearlessly.
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Thank you very much.
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(Applause)
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