Naima B. Robert – Advice for Muslim women on feeling insignificant MUST WATCH!

Naima B. Robert
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The speaker discusses the conflicting claims of small and big in the same context, and how a tiny tiny person on the Earth is seen as insignificant. The speaker argues that everyone is a tiny tiny person and that honoring tiny people's stories is important. The speaker also suggests reaching out to see oneself as the hero of the masterpiece and showing up authentically and vulnerfully.

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			Isn't it amazing how two facts
		
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			that are seemingly contradictory
		
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			can be true at the same time?
		
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			I'll give you an example.
		
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			On the one hand,
		
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			you and I
		
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			are insignificant
		
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			specks on the surface of this Earth.
		
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			Insignificant
		
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			in the context of this amazing universe.
		
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			Our lives
		
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			will pass in a flash, in the blink
		
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			of an eye, and we will make hardly
		
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			a blip
		
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			on the world's timeline.
		
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			On the one hand, we are completely insignificant.
		
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			Create strengths and my challenges.
		
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			He saw fit
		
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			to have a plan,
		
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			especially for you,
		
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			and a plan especially for me.
		
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			Not only
		
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			did he see fit to create us and
		
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			put us on this earth,
		
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			but he knows us.
		
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			He sees us.
		
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			He hears us.
		
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			And he responds to us
		
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			as
		
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			insignificant
		
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			as we
		
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			are. And so, if it's true that, on
		
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			the one hand, we are insignificant, on the
		
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			other hand, we are supremely unique and important
		
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			and miraculous.
		
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			Why not see your life
		
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			as a masterpiece?
		
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			If Allah
		
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			saw fit to give you life,
		
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			why not see it
		
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			as
		
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			a work of art?
		
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			A
		
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			challenge.
		
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			A feat of bravery.
		
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			Why not see yourself
		
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			as the hero of this masterpiece that is
		
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			your life? After all, you are a masterpiece
		
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			and a walking
		
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			miracle.
		
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			And so if that's the case,
		
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			why not honor that?
		
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			Reach in.
		
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			Dig deep.
		
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			Your higher self is inside.
		
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			She's just waiting to be given permission to
		
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			lead.
		
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			She's the hero.
		
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			You and her are the same.
		
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			Let her come out. Let your inner hero
		
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			lead.
		
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			And show up
		
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			authentically,
		
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			vulnerably,
		
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			It's time.