“Learning to receive is as difficult as learning to give.” — Alejandro Jodorowsky.
The Book of Life is written with indelible ink: the mistakes you make cannot be erased. And you rarely get a second chance.
What you can do is learn from your mistakes because what you do repeat are the seasons, both the good ones and the bad ones.
I don’t think I should teach you to take advantage of the good ones.
But concerning the bad ones, I have learned some spiritual lessons that would have saved me a lot of pain if I had known them much earlier.
And so I want to share them with you.
Let’s start.
“Everything has its due season; there is a time for everything under heaven.” — Ecclesiastes.
Everything is a process in life, and every process has its time. If you try to take a shortcut, you will have to repeat the process sooner or later.
You cannot go through life skipping stages because you do not learn the lessons you need to evolve.
And maybe from lesson 1 to lesson 3, you won’t notice much.
But when it’s your turn to learn lesson 11, and you haven’t understood correctly the previous 10, your whole world will fall apart, and you will have to repeat the course of the university of life 🙂
“If there were no suffering, a human being would not know himself.” — Leo Tolstoy
Your life is the hero’s journey; you must leave your home (your comfort zone), face the unknown, and test yourself to feel your walls (your limits).
If you don’t, you will never become what you were meant to be.
Some believe that our soul, which is infinite and therefore infinitely wise, signs a contract before coming to this world, accepting all the experiences it will live.
If this were so (and I am not saying that it is), it would mean that your soul trusts that you can overcome every one of the agreed situations.
What happens is that then comes what some philosophers called the shower of the soul, and you forget everything that was decided before incarnating on earth.
The moral of this theory is that the universe doesn’t send you any battle you can’t handle. So trust in yourself, and you will overcome this storm.
“Life is a roller coaster, that when you think you’re doing well you go down, and when you think you’re doing badly you go up.” — My grandfather 🙂
Sometimes we think we are doing poorly when we are doing well, and vice versa.
All bad times begin at the highest point of a fortunate period. And this is because, as the law of gravity says, “Everything that goes up must come down at some point.”
But since going down costs less effort than going up the steep slopes of life, it feels like fun until you hit bottom.
And it is for this reason that people confuse hedonism with happiness.
Too much pleasure always leads to self-destruction. Read it again.
However, when we try to get out of the hole, everything costs us three times as much, and we think that life is going badly, but the effort we make to transcend the resistance that oppresses us allows us to evolve and order the chaos that surrounds us.
Therefore, maybe these hard times are really “good times.”
“Three kinds of friends are beneficial; three types of friends are harmful. “ — Confucius.
When things go wrong, we surround ourselves with a lousy company that worsens things.
Confucius explains in his Book Anacletas how to identify which friends are screwing us and which ones are of interest to us to reduce the impact of bad times and get out of the hole we are in as soon as possible.
In the words of Confucius, “Friendship with upright, trustworthy, and cultured people is beneficial. Harmful is friendship with flattering and false toting people.”
Translated to today’s world:
Get together with better people if you want to be better 🙂
“Learning to receive is as difficult as learning to give.” — Alejandro Jodorowsky
We all think that the tricky thing is to learn to detach from things, give, let go, and lose.
But it is just as difficult or more challenging to learn to receive. Because many of us have grown up surrounded by people and social stimuli that made us feel insufficient.
And how will you make the law of attraction work for you to change your reality and overcome the bad moments if subconsciously you do not stop identifying yourself with that frightened child whom everyone made you know that he deserved nothing more than to lose?
It is very, very difficult to deprogram yourself from all that shit. Many successful people I’ve met throughout my life have confessed to me that they went to therapy to overcome their addiction to failure because until they healed their feelings of inferiority, they couldn’t get their careers off the ground.
So if I could travel back in time and tell my high school self something, it would be this, “You deserve it all. Don’t listen to anyone who tells you otherwise.”
Because only if you believe you deserve it will you get it.
A virtual hug
AG
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