Millenary wisdom for modern life.
When I thought I was flying, I was crawling, and now that people think I’m crawling, I’m flying.
This world is the world upside down. And when you think you’re at the top, you usually hit rock bottom and vice versa.
Because effort is seen as unsexy and undesirable, but as Jesus says,
“Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat.”
So if anything is fashionable: be suspicious. Surely that worldview, even if it is popular, will not lead you to happiness but to the abyss.
When you think you will eat the world, you are closer to perdition than you think.
Overconfidence will always lead to defeat.
Excess of vice to pain.
And too much ego to loneliness.
I know because I have lived it in my flesh.
Sometimes life feels like a party, but you are in hell and can’t see it.
All excess degenerates and turns any laughter into tears.
However, when life goes uphill, it feels like hell, and you are much closer to heaven than you think.
The road to heaven is uphill, so it costs twice as much.
But only some people realize this in time.
In the words of Jesus, “For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and there are few who find it.”
In those moments when everything seems to cost you double or triple.
In those moments when abstinence from substances and alcohol hurts.
In those moments when people look at you like you’re a loser.
In those moments when you try to swallow your ego and make things right with your family.
In those moments, you’re walking through the narrow door: the unsexy door that will lead you to the fullness of life.
Personal Testimony
Somewhere between my twenties and thirties, I was famous, ran a trendy nightclub, had everything money could buy, and before I knew it, I was burning in the worst hell: addiction.
At 33 years old, I hit bottom for the first time, and I still remember the nausea of abstinence and the cold sweats.
I still remember my bad manners; I was like a horse in a stable, kicking and resisting to be tamed.
Then my mother’s illness began when I was 35.
- I returned to living at my mother’s house, in my childhood room.
- I stopped being popular, lost 99% of my friends, and no woman would come near me.
- I started to combine my work with my mother’s surgeries, cleaning the house, cooking, and helping her with her rehabilitation (I’ve been doing this for seven years).
People from the outside see me as a guy with too many problems and little to offer. And I don’t blame them.
But on the inside, I feel better than ever.
Apply it to your life.
When you want to be brave, God/Universe sends you adversity.
When you want love, God/Universe sends you difficult people so that your capacity to love grows.
When you want abundance, God/Universe takes away your capital so that you have to go out of your comfort zone and undertake.
When you want peace and tranquility, God/Universe sends you chaos so that you learn to sleep in the middle of the storm 🙂
It’s always the same; whatever direction you choose on the road of life, it always has to be the one with the narrow door, the hardest, the least traveled.
Generally, when you are undecided, make the decision that is hardest to make because it is usually the right one. And soon, you will see how you put your life in order again.
A virtual hug
AG