Going from Rambo to Plato has its Perks

Getting past the disbelief of having the experience and understanding what is happening, something good quietly does really happen. You begin to believe in yourself. And then you don’t care who else does.

Finding myself extremely grateful for the confidence I have built to be able to leave a situation with acceptance and appreciation, not confusion, pride, or anger. Those feelings of course are initially involved yet they are informational items now, not immediate marching orders.

Before I was open to real answers I was always asking questions, but they were unsolvable riddles:

Why do they keep acting that way?
Why do they think like that?
Why can’t they love me like I do them?

An awakening - spontaneous or intentional - will provide indisputable clarity to see how it’s never been about them, it’s always about what you wanted for yourself in them, a familiar place to hide from your deep self. 

It was easier to believe someone wasn’t “getting it” than admitting we didn’t get it at all, either. How could we expect them to?

Loving questions because they cultivate a deep-rooted relationship with the most important person we’ll ever have with us. Cliche as it sounds, yep, it’s with yourself. No way getting around that. 

Who else have you spent every single second with in every situation you’ve ever been in, hmmm?

So an awakening to self is largely knowing not asking questions puts you right back in the same type of places just with different faces.

Asking them gives you everything you’ve been asking for, but you have to hear the answer. That’s the hard part. I beg people to keep going thru the battlefields of your own mind.

Everyone has the potential to awaken to themselves. It is the true, wild, unbridled freedom that can never be taken away from you.