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The short answer is that we don’t LOVE ourselves enough yet.
We incarnate on the training planet Gaia to see in the outside mirror what we don’t like about ourselves inside.
This is the great paradox we experience over and over again: We judge, we blame, we get angry at others, we take away our innate unconditional LOVE from them – to punish not only them, but most of all ourselves.
Until we can LOVE every soul with all our hearts, we will return. Only then will we fully wake up and be able to truly LOVE ourselves. Only then will we become one with All That Is.
Spiritual Bypassing & Deep Shadow Work
We are great masters of spiritual bypassing! I know this because I do it myself, and it is often difficult to see. Don’t we all just LOVE our comfort zones?
As part of ‘being spiritual‘, most of us like to chant positive songs or repeat some mantras or positive affirmations. Or we tell ourselves (or our friends) that a problem is not a big deal, we just need to look at the bright side of it, fill it with light and LOVE or whatever.
This kind of spirituality can be harmful because it distracts us from the real inner work. As we begin to leave the realms of 3D and 4D, all perspectives merge into inner unity. There is nothing to blame, nothing to judge, nothing is really ‘good and right’ or ‘bad and evil’.
Of course it makes no sense to keep giving energy to the negative, as this will attract more of it. There is a fine balance that we need to find in every single moment of our lives, loving our shadows, our fears, even our deeply hidden self-hatred at times. Soon enough on the spiritual path we will find that we cannot ignore these parts of ourselves, we can only embrace them with all our LOVE.
Living in a World of Three
The early Christians (and many other spiritual traditions) knew the answer to the challenge of balancing opposites in a world of two polarities. We can begin to live in a world of trinity.
This is symbolised in the sacred symbol of the vesica piscis, also known as the Mandorla. In the Dao we also find the Yin Yang symbol, although many don’t see the circle that encloses both parts, indicating the third.
We can learn to LOVE the unity of our own opposites, feeling the oneness of all our paradoxes, within and without.
When two different gongs play at the same time, the healing energies are generated by the overlapping patterns of the two gongs.
And one king shall be king over them all, and they shall be no longer two nations, and no longer divided into two kingdoms.
Ezekiel 37:22
A simple way of feeling this in the body, for example, is to ask ourselves: do we feel warm or cold? Is there a part of the body that feels cold and another part that feels warm? Can we appreciate feeling both sensations at the same time?
Instead of focusing on only one side, we feel the oneness of both.
When we meet other souls in our world, they reflect back to us everything back that we don’t want to see in ourselves. Can we LOVE them unconditionally just as they are?
Can we then begin to LOVE ourselves in the same way, fully and wholeheartedly, with all our paradoxes and opposites, no matter how far we have pushed our shadows away?
Can we forgive ourselves and truly LOVE?
