How many times have you seen a movie or listened to a story where a person has an angel on one shoulder and a little devil on the other?  This example is classic because it’s universal to us all.  At any given time, on any given day, we have either the voice of our higher more compassionate self who is whispering in our ear—or we have that part of us that is most selfish, small-minded and paranoid sitting on the other.  The image of two little selves fighting for our attention is one that is graphically easy to remember.  Which do you listen to the most?

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