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Deceit is Shallow, Purpose is Deep

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  Deceit is Shallow, Purpose is Deep https://www.spreaker.com/episode/deceit-is-shallow-purpose-is-deep--72004013 We are stepping into a massive convergence of energy today, Tribe. A Double Double: Nia (Purpose) in the week of Nia, enveloped in the Ujima cycle. There is an old Haitian proverb that says, "The hole of lies isn't deep; deceit is easily exposed." For too long, many of us have carried the burden of false meanings assigned to us by a society that doesn't have our best interests at heart. We hustle, we grind, and we carry weights that were never ours to hold, all because we bought into a shallow lie. But what happens when you decide that you are the sole author of your life's meaning? What happens when you expose the deceit? Call to Inaction: Stop letting external forces dictate your worth. A tree cannot grow while holding onto dead leaves. What false narrative about your identity can you drop today? Whose expectations do you need to scrape off to reve...

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Ujima Day 12721-5

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Daily Toast - Umoja "Let's open the lines"

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Grab your glass and join us. I had some problems with the stream but we pushed through this morning. via https://youtu.be/T5p56Qdxjkw

Daily Toast

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Peace FAM: Daily we gather aroung the "virtual community fire" known as the internet to lift our glasse to salute those who came before us. I decided that we needed to create a ritual where we lift up our personal Ancetors. My personal favorite part of libations has always been where we salute those ancestors that we rose from, and I feel that often we overlook them for the bigger names that we learn in our classes. I wanted to set a space and a time where we focused exclusively on our persoanl ancestors. In my studies I have learned that "hell (at least the closest thing we had to a hell) for an African was being forgotten." That is why I am diligent about making sure that we mention there names every morning. What started as me celebrating my ancestors turned into building up a community list, and group of people that have introduced the concept of Toasting into their lives.  Through this process which has been going on everyday for the last 17 months we have i...