Peace of Mind Pearls & Bags Of Oranges

People CANNOT give YOU what they can't give/live themselves.

I’ve benefitted by decades of therapy.

Many diverse therapies. Each opened up more inner doors.

Living at the ashram with Swami Satchitananda was also enlightening, not just for the soul. But for walking the path of an everyday human.

One of the biggest pearls was understanding relationship with “self”.

I learned that I could only enjoy, create and live relationships with others, based on what I already had with myself.

If I am not whole, then my relationships can’t be whole.

Attraction gets stickier to others “less” whole.

A parable that has made sense to me that I made up - has been:

“If I don’t have a bag of oranges, I can’t give oranges to anyone else.

Gotta get me some oranges.”