The Best Revenge Is NOT To Be Like Your Enemy

If you’ve been sensing the split—between noise and truth, fight and freedom—this conversation offers a grounded path forward. Learn a simple daily way to frame each day {Empty me, Fill me, Use me} explore the power of fasting and prayer, and consider how millions of small exits from the “Matrix” can tilt culture toward clarity and care. 
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Transcript

Opening Quote And Welcome

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If we are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to our estimate of it and this humanity we have the power to evoke at any moment. And I welcome you back to Free to Just Be the podcast of my own daily dance of transformation, my lived honest journey of awakening. And I'm your host Teresa Marie, an ambassador of Qi and I share to help you recognize the energetic shift happening on our planet and to reconnect with our own inner truths. Through my stories and reflections, I hope to open our minds and soften our hearts and gather us back together again. And eventually, not just online, but in real life community where I share my moving meditations, and together we have compassion for one another and presence, which bring us home to each other. So welcome back to this thought-provoking Thursday, and I'm so excited to be behind the mic to share with you again, and I hope that I bring true value to your life today. Hope I percolate these thoughts throughout your day, and you ponder and think about them. So I want to kind of piggyback on my last episode where I was beginning to speak about virtue. And what is virtue? Virtue is moral excellence, uh, the consistent practice of doing what is right. And it comes through qualities like honesty and courage and compassion. And man oh man, do we need some compassion for each other? I want you to give yourself a big old hug if you're not driving, or pat yourself on the back, because it takes a lot of courage to be alive right now. We are in the most tumultuous season on this planet, and it has absolutely exploded with the acceleration of the fire horse energy. I don't know if you're feeling it, but baby, this last week, oh my goodness. Um if you haven't figured out that we're in a mighty spiritual battle yet, we are. And uh I want to talk about some of the current events and some of the things that I have ascertained from it. But I want to give you an update of this last week. You know, um a week ago, today, I turned 65, and as I shared in a couple of episodes ago, it landed right in the middle of this threefold portal. And I used that time, that three-day period, to really set my intentions for the balance of this year. I went through a little bit of a ritual of my own personal doing and being, and the power of that just it just blew my mind, the the attacks that I received in the days that followed. Um and the way they showed up in my world, in my, like I I always called it a dance of transformation, um, it was volatile emotions. Um and it wasn't anger, it was it was heaviness and sadness and recognition of who I've been and who I want to be and how they don't match up, and the sorrow in my heart for that, and then looking out into humanity and recognizing um and feeling that heaviness as well, and it was a really difficult three or four-day period, and I feel like um as of uh just about yesterday, I think yesterday I it was the turning point back to um feeling emotional stability and uh more anchored into the 5D frequencies, because we are in a massive um quandary when it comes to the frequency on the planet, because there really is a split that that is we are literally living in the midst of. There are those that are hanging on, like cling-ons to their old way of being, and don't see any other way but to just continue to spiral and spin on the Matrix Merryground. And there are those that have been awake for a while and uh want a different way of life, they they want a different way of being, uh tired of the grind. Uh they are busting out in little ways and big ways and medium ways, and so there is this split that we see happening, and I don't know if you're aware of it, but man, I I was feeling the energy of the collective, this tumultuous what the heck is going on, and um and then at the same time my spirit has been rising, my my connection with God has become more anchored and more uh consistent. Um, and I'm a I'm a daily God gal, okay? Um I get up two and a half hours early so that I have that time to start my day with God. And um that it's not tooting my own horn or anything like that, it's just that that has just been the way of of my life for 40 plus years. Uh I I seek him first. And and I'm here to say that in the last week my relationship has just incredibly deepened and has anchored me in his frequency. And that that is what I want to talk about. I want to talk about possibility, and why do I feel like it's important to talk about possibilities? Because we are feeling like we're in an impossible situation, and I I watch as the Matrix does what the matrix does, and that is doing the he said, she said, and I don't like this, and what about that? And that is the program. Because the things that I'd like to share today, if they were mainstream, and they are becoming mainstream, by the way, um, it would shut the matrix down in a heartbeat. And I began to talk about vo virtue and what is virtue? Virtue is moral excellence, and it is the consistent practice of doing what is right through qualities like honesty, courage, and compassion. And um I came upon the quote that I open with of Marcus Aurelius, and imagine my surprise at no quinky dinks here, um, that Marcus Aurelius was a sixteenth century Roman emperor and a stoic philosopher. And Stoic philosophers believe that wisdom, justice, courage, and temperance are the keys to a well-lived life. So he was a very virtuous guy. And he was uh let me see, I'm trying to find my notes about Marcus. Uh hold on a minute here. He was the last of the rulers known as the five good emperors of Rome, and he led an age of what? Now, if he was a stoic philosopher who believed in wisdom, justice, courage, and temperance, imagine no surprise that he led an age of relative peace, calm, and stability from 27 BC to 180 AD. And he had all of these meditations written down, and many, many people have read them. And I'm gonna focus on some of his quotes because they're very profound for the things that I want to share today. So another of his quotes is this everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth. Now, I want to bring this to modern day times and touch upon what many of us, and hopefully, if you're an American, you were one of the millions that watched the State of the Union addressed on Tuesday night. And whoa buddy, did we see the split? And it was it wasn't even the split between the th third dimension and the fifth dimension. No, no, no, no. It was a split of good and evil that we actually witnessed on our TVs at nine o'clock on a Tuesday evening, and it was incredible. But then I paused and pondered what I witnessed, and I waited until Wednesday to see the fallout. Because you see, that's exactly oh, it picked it up, the Matrix picked it up and ran with it the second that State of the Union was over. And how did they run? Oh, they had all the people that disagree with our president just go ape crazy over all that he said and did that was wrong. And then you have those on the side that believe in patriotism and believe in our country, whether or not they believe in what the president is doing or how he's doing it. And there was the great divide, there it was again, and the finger pointing, and the smack talk, and the armchair warriors, and they were all out full blown. But now let's go back to what he just said in that quote. If everything humanity that we hear is simply an opinion, not fact, and everything we see is just a perspective and not the truth, where does that leave us? Well, it leads us right into his next quote. It's time we realize that we have something in us more powerful and more miraculous than the things that affect us and make us dance like puppets. Demarcus Aurelio is he here right now? Because maybe that's exactly what's happening, isn't it? Because we have forgotten, we have forgotten what is inside of us. And we just operate out of the programs of the last hundred years. We do the dance of the matrix, we get our fingers and we point and we say, Oh, the left, look at the left, they're wrong. And then the the the left says, Do you see what he's doing? And he's ruining our country. And there's no truth in any of that. It's opinion, it's perspective, and inside of us the whole time, there is this power. And lo and behold, Marcus Aurelius, thousands of years ago, is coming into your earbuds right now to remind us that the matrix covered up the power that's within us. The power to actually discover the truth. Right? Here's another one that Marcus Aurelio said. The happiness of our lives depends upon the quality of our thoughts. I don't know about you, but I spent the majority of my yefe, humanity, thinking thoughts that the matrix put in my head. And I allowed them. How about you? I can't answer that question for you. Only you can answer that. Are our thoughts full of moral excellence? Do we think about being honest and courageous and having compassion for others? And if not, I'm not calling you out. I'm calling you to look at the matrix programming that we find ourselves in and recognize that words can inspire. I mean, I can help inspire you, other podcast people can inspire you. Maybe the podcasters out there that are trying to uncover truth can inspire you, but the only thing that creates change for you and I personally, the only way that the world changes is if you and I personally begin to take action. Action to do what? Oh, we're gonna change the world. Guess what? We we can't change the world, but we can one exit of a program at a time change ourselves, and that is what's happening around the world. There are people that are sick and tired of being sick and tired, and so one by one they are dissolving their very own programs because you see, the matrix puts them out, but we're the ones that pick them up and allow these programs to spin in our minds, and here's another one from Marcus Aurelius. You have the power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this and you will find strength. Well, I believe this was a man that must have known the real truth, because his quote could literally just come right out of the Bible. And for the balance of today's episode, I want us to think about what would be the best way for us to help change the world? Would it be oh my goodness, I I I have to tell you that I was absolutely floored that anybody in their right mind at a presidential event where they're sitting with hundreds of people to hear a presidential address, okay? I mean, this is an elected official that we are supposed to give honor and deference to, that we're supposed to show just uh I don't even want to say ultimate respect. How about just regular respect for somebody who has been chosen to stand before you and give an address? But no, this is not just a regular person, this is the president of the United States. Love him or hate him as a person, he still holds the office of the president of the United States, and he should be honored as such, and you keep your personal opinions and your perspectives to yourself at least in the presence and in the audience of something so profound, right? But no, there were people that literally stood up and screamed their perspective in such a dishonoring way that anybody in their right mind would have said, Wow, that was complete and utter disrespect. And I want you to be fully aware now that these people that were fully disrespecting the president of the United States are part of our current government. And if you also noticed that when our president actually said the duty of our government is to protect our citizens, and here it was the trigger, he could have just said over anyone else. But you see, we have had millions of people come into our country that are not citizens, that are not here legally, and whether you like that or not, if you want them to come or not, the fact is the fact that there are millions here that are sucking our system and they are doing it illegally. And he pointed that out and he said, if you believe that as part of the government, that is our duty. That is the duty of any government. They're there to make rules and regulations to do what? To run their people under the bus? Well, we have seen many, many countries around the world do that. But this I thought was America, the united states of America, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice. But instead, if you were mindful, if you were not allowing the programs of the matrix to buzz in your brain, you would recognize that we are literally being governed by half the people in the government who did not even stand, and so by them sitting, they were saying, No, we do not want to protect the citizens of our country first. We want to let millions pour into our country. So now the fact is right there on the table. It's right there on the table. We have people in our government that are literally against us. We can't change that fact. But now, uh I'm sure I've triggered many, and many of you that have already left because I keep talking about God, might have left now because no. No, I'm getting political, but no, this is not about politics. This is about moral excellence. This is about virtue. This is about who we are as a people. I'm not speaking at all now about the government. I am speaking about myself and I'm sharing with you. And then you have to ask yourself, I am not here to point fingers because, baby, I have pointed so many fingers over my lifetime, and every single time there were three chubbies pointing back at me. And I have become undone with the reality of that. And that is our superpower. That is where we have to go back. We have to recognize that we have power over our mind and we have to do what millions around the world are beginning to do, and that is to sit in silence and to allow our own yuck come up and to recognize it and look at it and realize, oh my God, I am not a moral excellent person. Why? Because I have excessive belief in my own ability. I can do everything. I have excessive desire for material wealth and things. I want stuff. I want more stuff. I have intense anger or hatred to people, people by the way that were all created by God. I am jealous towards other people's success. I have excessive desires for sexual gratifications or whatever lust of the flesh that I desire. I have problems with overindulgence in food and drink and alcohol and addictions. I have laziness or even avoid work at times. These are the moral things that are breaking down our society, and I absolutely came undone when I really truly looked at myself in the mirror and recognized, oh my God, oh my God, help me. I need your help, God. And more and more people are understanding that there is nobody, nobody on this planet that can help us but God. And I want to share with you what has been occurring in my life in the last seven days to make me absolutely feel like I have transformed and turned over yet another matrix program in my life and recognize that the best revenge, the best revenge against those in our government that are against us, the best revenge against the matrix operators, the best revenge against Satan, who is at the helm of it all, is to get more guns and weapons, is to yell and scream and and and point fingers, is is to just be incredulous and say, I just, you know, I I'm so sick of this and and do nothing. No, as Marcus Aurelius is going to remind us from way back, he's probably looking down on the planet saying, Oh, if they would only recognize that the best revenge is not to be like the enemy. How much are we like the enemy in everything I just listed? And if you weren't aware, I just listed the little definitions of those seven deadly sins. So is it any surprise that we find ourselves in this tumultuous way within our government, humanity? Especially to my American brothers and sisters. We have allowed pride and greed and wrath and envy and lust and gluttony and slothism via the Matrix to come in and rule our lives. So what is the recourse? What is the way back to what Marcus Aurelius lived? He had an age of relative peace, calm, and stability. How do we get that back? That is the question. And I want to share with you a very simple, profoundly simple, because you see, I want to I want to reiterate again, oh, and get get your trigger happy people ready because I'm gonna trigger you, because our Jesus did not walk the planet to say, go and create a hundred churches in every small town across America. No, he did not come to bring religion. He came to bring a simple truth, a truth so simple that if we just follow his example of virtue, we could live in peace, calm, and stability with each other around the world. Oh that's pie in the sky, that's your dreaming, you you know, imagine all the people. You're just a hippie. Well, you know what? There are millions of us rising up to say it's time, and now I want to share with you what I did last week. Now I I share with you that Wednesday I began the Lenten season, and you do not have to be a Catholic to be a participant in Lent. And I'm gonna give a plug for an incredible app called Hallow. If you're not familiar with Hallow, it might absolutely break your heart wide open. And I'm not talking only if you're a Catholic, you would not even recognize anything to do with the Catholic Church on that app. But oh baby, if you are courageous enough to open that app and start from day one on Ash Wednesday and follow their 40 days through Lent, your heart will break too. Because it reveals the truth about us. It reveals how we want to be approved, we want to be lifted up, we want to be preferred over others. And Jesus came in humility, and it broke my heart when I saw the hardness of my heart, the blackness of my heart. And I had been walking with Jesus for forty-two years, and I didn't really recognize how much I wanted to be praised or approved or lifted up, how much I have allowed the lust of the flesh, having to have coffee and having all this food, and and look at America, look at look at the gluttony that we have in America, in the land where we have so much. But again, I divert because I want to bring hope, I want to bring solution, I want to bring transformational power to my brothers and sisters in Humanityville today. A very simple practice. I want you to understand that the reason we are seeing so clearly the difference between good and evil, why we are seeing so much of the truth, it's it's beginning to be a little thicker than a trickle, isn't it? Oh, it was Epstein. And you know, the Epstein files have been around for well over a decade. There are many of us that have known about this. But now the trickle is getting a little bit steadier. The wave is getting a little bit wider. Why? Because there are millions now. They started last Wednesday. There are millions of people that profess the faith of a Catholic, and there are millions that have joined in on this Lenten season to do what? They are fasting and they are praying every Wednesday and every Friday, specifically, but many millions are fasting from various different things, but most importantly, they are praying like they've never prayed before. And so I am not pointing fingers, but I am asking you like I had to ask myself. Theresa Marie, when was the last time you got on your face and prayed for your country? When was the last time you prayed for the world? When was the last time you prayed against the Matrix handlers? When was the last time you prayed against the evil in this world? I'm real good at praying for myself, for my husband, for my children, for my grandchildren, for my pets. But when was the last time I prayed for the president of the United States? For the people in the government, for the people that are spitefully, intentionally misusing our funds, causing us to be sick, poisoning our food. When was the last time I prayed for that? So I want you to think about, just just go with me for a second, and just imagine, because in my opinion, this is the truth. We have this small faction. All right, we'll give we'll give them five percent. Five percent of the people on the world, just go with me here, just put on your imagination cap, and just five percent are evil, completely evil. They live and breathe for adrenochrome. They're they torture children, they are stealing, they are mocking, they are everything that uh would look like a demon, okay? Five percent. You got that picture? So it's a little, a little bitty piece, and then there's ninety-five percent of the planet that they are doing their dirty deeds to, and the ninety-five percent is allowing it. Oh, there's nothing we can do, oh yeah, I just I have to go to work, I'm so tired of the grind, you know, and we are allowing it. We are allowing it, correct? So now I want you to think about what would happen. Hold on one second. I want you to think about the 95% all of a sudden standing up. Now picture this. I I want you to picture the planet, and I want you to picture in the center because they think they are in the center of all of it, alright? So, right in the center are these five percent of the people on the planet that are pulling the puppet strings and making the laws and and and negotiating nefarious deeds and acts. Picture them in the center of this beautiful ball that we call Earth. And now picture ninety-five percent of us standing up, and they're all sitting, and now we're all standing up, and together, arms locked, we are walking toward them, and now we're looking down because they live beneath our feet. They live in the darkest places, in the tunnels, in the epitome of hell. That's where they reside, that's where they do their deeds, and we are now standing above them looking down. Okay, got that picture in your head? What do you think those five percent would do then? And they're locked in their chairs now, like seat belted in, and they see everybody looking down at them, calling them to the carpet, calling them to give back everything they stole, calling them to stop poisoning and hurting, calling them to give back every one of our children, calling them out. What do you think would happen? Well, I take you to the verse in the Bible, I don't know the address in resurrect inquisition yourself, but there was a time in the Gospels when the disciples were called to go out two by two and bring the good news. And Jesus told them that He they would do the same things that He could do. They would heal the sick, they would give sight to the blind, they would heal leprosy, and they would be able to cast out demons. And they came back and they said, Why couldn't we cast out this one? Because there was a particular demonic that they tried and they couldn't do it. And what did Jesus tell them? He said, This type can only be cast out by what? Fasting and prayer. Fasting and prayer. Imagine that. And guess what? That demon, that legion of demons went oh and they ran out of that demoniac into those pigs, and the pigs ran off into the cliff and were killed. I want you to apply the concept, the very simple concept of fast and pray to that picture I just gave you. Do you know that that is exactly what is happening right now? And if we all, all ninety-five percent, if if it's even that big, I'm giving them a lot of credit because we are many, Humanityville. We are massive compared to those that are pulling our strings. And the only way that we can effectively come against this evil scourge on our planet is to simply go back to what Jesus Christ showed us in his virtuous life, and now to bring it up to speed from what I have been doing and to show you that it can be done. So I did the ten episodes on scrolling the blue is killing you, real you, and then I told you that I got hit so hard with that blue screen, it was almost like I I I did that series and I was on my phone more than ever for four or five days after that, right? And it was a battle. We are in a battle. But let me tell you that on Ash Wednesday, and then again, during that portal, that incredible energetic portal of the 18th, the 17th through the 20th of last week, I made some specific intentions, and I chose to really take away screen time. That was what I was going to fast on. I was going to fast, I work 40 hours, four days, 10-hour days. I have two breaks. So I have one hour out of my 40-hour work week, one hour a day, and I determined that when I went back to work, that I was not going to bring my phone on the warehouse floor. So that meant that the only time I would use my phone was the 30-minute break twice in my shift. So one hour a day, I would be able to access my phone. And I am here to tell you that I've had victory. In fact, let's see, today is Thursday. Um, it was Tuesday. Tuesday morning, um, for whatever reason, oh, I know what it was. It was um I didn't wear my coat. And the uh no, I wore my coat. I wore my coat on the floor because it was cold. And normally what I do is I zip my phone in the inside pocket of my coat and I leave it in the break room. But I wore my coat, and so I got on the floor and immediately, this is how the matrix operates. Just a little voice said in my head, you know your phone is in your backpack. And immediately it was like that lust of the flesh, right? Oh, my phone is with me. Did I succumb to it though? No, I did not, humanity. What I did was I said, get behind me. I already said I was not going to use my phone. And just just to prove it, going back to that Marcus Aurelius post, the best revenge is not to be like your enemy. The enemy wanted to suck me back into that matrix program that says, This job is so boring. Don't you want to put your earbuds in? Don't you want to listen to all those podcasts that you listen to? And I said, No, no, no, no. I trod on your head right now. And I am going to prove it. And even though my phone is in my backpack, I'm not taking it out. And do you know all of Tuesday and all of Wednesday that That is exactly what happened. So I'm here to tell you that it is possible. We are talking about possibilities here today. And it is possible to say no to the matrix. The other thing I want to share with you is fasting. Now I work a very physical job. I'm moving all the time. I'm lifting all the time. I'm bending all the time. The world will tell you, well, you you need protein. You can't go without food. You're not going to be able to function. You're not going to be able to operate. Well, let me tell you that my commitment to my practice of Lent includes fasting on Wednesday and Friday. Now I am not doing a full, full day fast, but I did a 24-hour fast because the last we ate at 7 o'clock on Tuesday. So you figure by the time dinner was on the on the plates at 7, so I said 8 o'clock. 8 o'clock Tuesday night, and I went all the way till 6:30 on Wednesday with just water. I had my normal lemon water, no honey, just lemon water hot Wednesday morning, and then I drank water throughout the day. And when I got in the break room, I drank hot water. No food. It is possible to do that. And what did I do when my stomach started growling? I prayed. Prayer and fasting can cast down the evil scourge on this planet. And to close, I'm going to share something else phenomenal. Phenomenal because it is so simple. Humanity, it's so simple. And this is a prayer from um Sister Mer Miriam, I think that's her name, on the Hollow app. And the Hollow app is is awesome. I I can't reiterate enough for you to try it. And I will leave a link at the bottom of my show notes today. And start from the beginning, last Wednesday, start the 40 day, and and your mind will be blown because your mind will shut off and will immediately take you right to your heart. I promise. And Sister Miriam shared a very simple prayer. Empty me. Empty me of what? Of all the matrix programming, of all the ways I don't want to be, of all the sin, of all the mistakes, of all the negativity, of all the things that distract me from God. Empty me. Fill me. Fill me with what? Fill me with goodness. Fill me with charity. Fill me with kindness. Fill me with everything that Jesus is. And use me. Use me how. Use me to be a lighthouse. Use me to be the salt of the earth. Use me to help transform my own life first and foremost. And then just shine because others will come to the light. Help me bring millions back to you, God. That's how we turn the world. Upside down to the right side. And then in closing, I want to remind you: whether you believe it or not, Jesus Christ came, died a violent death on the cross to pay the price for our righteousness. And when we recognize that we are sinners and we accept Him and say thank you for that gift, we are free. Free from eternal damnation. That means we have eternal life. And that makes the enemy absolutely dissolve. So I close with a simple way that even now you can begin to implement what millions around the world are doing. Choose something that you know is distracting you from God and from who you always knew you were to be. And decide right now to sacrifice it for the next well. Thirty-seven days. Get the hollow app and try it. You might like it. It may help you to totally transform. And the most important pray. Pray for our country. Pray for our leaders. Pray for your brothers and sisters around the world. Pray for peace. Pray that the truth will be revealed. Pray that the light shines so brightly that the darkness cannot hide anymore. And when millions of us do that together, we accelerate. We all get on that fire horse and we ride towards a better way of life. I love you so much, humanity. I get behind this mic when God fills me up. And man, he filled me up today. He has absolutely been turning my life upside down, more so in the last seven days than in a very, very long time. Fast and pray. Pray simply, empty me, fill me, use me, and remember, in the midst of the hardest attacks, you stand and stamp your feet and say, I am free. Because you are. If you know Jesus and you've received Him as your personal Lord and Savior, you are free. Free indeed. And on that note, as always, I pray that you have the greatest health and the most vibrant energy today. And of course, peace.