Alberto García 🚀🚀🚀

#11. Life is like a TV contest.

Rereading a book and discovering that you missed the most important lessons when you first read it is funny.

They say it happens because although the book is still the same, you, as a reader, have changed.

And that is why you can appreciate other nuances in the book’s information you couldn’t see some time ago.

The same thing happens with the tremendous spiritual secrets of the great book of life.

These are the ones that I have recently discovered and that I would have liked to know much earlier in life.

1. Happiness haunts us, and we don’t realize it. We become obsessed with finding it at the next exit on the highway of life. And we drive at full speed without looking in the rearview mirror. At the same time, happiness chases us without reaching us. That’s why old people say, “We were happy, and we didn’t know it.” Stop at the service area to take a break occasionally so that happiness can catch up with you.
2. Good things will not always happen to us. But just because good things happen to us doesn’t mean they will make us feel good. Life is often the world turned upside down. And what is presented as a great tragedy is a blessing, and vice versa.
3. “Worldly things need to be known to be loved. Spiritual things need to be loved to be known.” Everyone lives by the slogan “Seeing is believing,” which is why they cannot work miracles. However, the few who dare to dream and fall deeply in love with their dreams innovate and manage to channel the most amazing prodigies from the dimension of ideas (from the creative source). Faith is the key. Faith is believing in what you do not see. Believing in what you do not see makes what you do not see find you and ends up materializing.
4. Life has to be digested like food. You have to chew the things that happen to you, good or bad. If you don’t chew your successes and failures, and you swallow them without further ado, your feelings will ball up, and you will choke.
5. By forgiving, I forgive myself. Forgiving is not synonymous with forgetting but with healing. When you forgive someone, you free yourself from the wound caused. You take a weight off your shoulders, and above all, you stop thinking compulsively about those people who hurt you. Forgiving prevents your enemies from winning twice: once when they hurt you in real life and twice every time you remember it. Trying to be happy without forgiving is like trying to drink the Pacific Ocean through a soda straw: impossible.
6. Getting used to the stone in the shoe damages the foot and the shoe. It is not only the great tragedies that condition our lives but also the tiny disappointments we tolerate daily. When something small irritates us, and we do not manage it, we normalize it. We learn to live with it. But that does not mean that it is not hurting us. In the same way that a small stone that you do not remove from your shoe because of laziness can end up making you a wound, a blister, or even a hole in your shoe, a minor conflict that is repeated daily can end up damaging your life to levels that you can’t even imagine.
7. The spiritual ladder has two directions: up and down. And inertia makes it easier to descend. So don’t get complacent. Watch your step. Don’t take shortcuts. They don’t work. You can’t get to Mars in a hot air balloon. You have to climb rung by rung, learning from each ladder step. That’s the only way to climb in life.
8. You never know half as much as you think you do. The more you believe you know about something, the less you understand. And only when you delve into it do you realize the actual size of your ignorance. It happens with everything: in love, in work, in hobbies. That’s why most of the criticisms we get are superficial. People who don’t understand something are the most likely to criticize it. But their words have less value than those of a sheep, “baa, baa, baa…”.
9. The greatest epiphanies come without warning. Don’t expect a peal of bells or an angel blowing a trumpet while another reads aloud from a long scroll as if he were an emissary from heaven. The revelations usually come without warning, after a shower, or while you stroll looking at the infinite with your eyes more lost than a Walking Dead Zombie. It is in those moments, so little solemn, that thoughts come to you that can change the course of your life. — My latest epiphany is the following point.
10. Be yourself, even if that means not liking everyone. We live trying to please the eight billion people that inhabit the world, and it is wild to let ourselves be conditioned by what all those people think of us since not even 99’999999999 % of them know we exist.
11. Life is like a TV contest. One of those quiz shows where a host gives you a set of keys and puts you on a set of doors. And at each door, you have just one clue about what’s behind it. “Maybe there’s music playing,” “Maybe it smells like freshly brewed coffee,” “Maybe a pleasant voice invites you in.” Then you try the keys, and if one of them matches the selected door, it opens, and at that moment, something is activated, even if you can’t see it. They call it the butterfly effect, and it can lead you to live a good and satisfying life or, on the contrary, to hell. The important thing is that you never forget that every game depends on the player’s skill, on you. So whether you go to heaven or hell, never stop trusting in yourself.

A virtual hug

AG