Revelation:
Disclosure, an uncovering.
Each act we perform is a revelation of our Selves
Hatred:
The opposite of Love.
It is said that we hate in others what we see in ourselves.
Understanding:
A kind of empathy.
“Empathy” is defined by one source as “the ability to feel what others are feeling as if you are feeling it yourself.”
Can you feel my pain, and can I feel yours?
Can I feel your joy, and can you feel mine?
Life school is all day long, mostly, and especially, perhaps, during a meal.
Life school is all my life long, too, and especially, perhaps, during strife.
Sleep is a kind of death: a release, an un-tethering of spirit, to roam.
Sleep is a kind of adventure: a search for meaning without boundaries.
What if I can combine the School with the un-tethering?
What if I can combine the adventure with the search for meaning?
What if I can find a way to tether the release with the strife?
How can I release the expectation, and the desire, for others to love me?
How can I reject others’ need to hurt me without releasing my love for them?
"How can I release the expectation, and the desire, for others to love me?
How can I reject others’ need to hurt me without releasing my love for them? "
Yeah, these are the hardest things to face for those of us who are empathetic.
It takes baby steps to realize these things.
And I'm not sure about not needing to release love from the abusers. Love opens a channel of consideration, but if they're actively ignoring and hurting you, why keep that channel open? I've changed that love into seeing them as people who are damaged, and it's not my job to fix them or accept their behavior. If I need to interact with them now, I'm less peturbed by their actions because I am no longer invested in them as a person, as they weren't invested in me in the first place... Hope that makes sense...
A good book to read about this is "unholy hungers" by Barbara hort, which goes into the archetypes of active and passive vampires.
Click the number 1 on the right side to download the book, the next page click cloudflare or ipfs and you'll get the pdf
http://libgen.is/search.php?req=Unholy+hungers&lg_topic=libgen&open=0&view=simple&res=25&phrase=1&column=def
A rare sight!