Just a quote from one of my favourite spiritual guides – Byron Katie. I was introduced to Byron Katie and “the work” a few years ago by a dear friend π€ — you know who you are ππ
So what we often make the mistake of doing is living our lives to please other people. We fear ruffling the feathers of others because we don’t want to fall out of favour with them.
The thing is, our outer world, reality, is largely a reflection of our inner state. If you live your life to please yourself, and you like (well, hopefully, love) yourself, then the majority of the people you meet are going to follow suite and love you too.
If we aren’t following our passions and drives, we subconsciously project that unhappiness and we give other people permission to reflect that dishonored state of self back at us.
We get respect from others when we show ourselves the respect of honouring the person who we truly want to be – without seeing ourselves through the filter of who other people may want us to be.
The ego (our created identity of our “self”) also projects identities onto other people, and tells us that they should live up to some version of ourselves that we have created in our mind.
This is where the issue starts – when we project that version onto other people, a person with poorly defined boundaries will wear that identity as a cross to bear instead of embracing their own true self and passions.
I guess the message is acceptance, acceptance of the person you are and want to be, embracing that and then realising when you are projecting an identity that is self created onto the other people in your life.
That means that no one should need to change themselves to live up to expectations that you have created and you can love unconditionally.
That is powerful shit.
Also, check out “The Work” by Byron Katie and stop torturing yourself with thoughts that aren’t even based in truth.
Megan βοΈπͺ
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