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Explaining creative 'Resistance': the more important a project is to your soul's growth, the more fear it generates.
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And I'd like your reflections on it and what you intended when you said it, which is, quote, the more important to your soul's growth, the stronger the resistance will be, which for me was very counterintuitive.
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