(EYE OPENER)
“When you love yourself, your tolerance for self-abuse is very low.
It’s low because you like yourself for who and what you are. But what if
we don’t like ourselves? We try to get numb with alcohol to avoid our
suffering. We go to a bar to drink and guess who’s going to be there?
People just like us who try to avoid themselves who also try to get
numb. We get numb together and start talking
about our suffering and we understand eachother very well. We even
start to enjoy it. We understand eachother perfectly because we vibrate
at the same frequency. We are being self-destructive. Then I hurt you,
you hurt me- a perfect relationship in hell!
What happens when
you change? For whatever reason you no longer need the alcohol. It’s
now okay to be with yourself and you really enjoy it. But you have the
same friends and everyone is drinking. They get numb and they start
getting happier…but you can clearly see that their happiness is not
real. What they call happiness is a rebellion against their own
emotional pain. You no longer fit in and of course they resent you
because you are no longer like them. ‘You’re rejecting me because you no
longer drink with me.’
Now you have to make a choice. You can
step back, or you can go to another level of frequency and meet people
who finally like themselves like you do. You find there is another realm
of reality. A new way of relationship. And you no longer accept a
certain kind of abuse.”
From the book “The Mastery of Love” by Miguel Ángel Ruiz
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