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looking glass.

stop bargaining. you’re not going to fix the world; the world is going to fix you. how about that? have you noticed that mirrors show you as a reversed image? it happens across the vertical axis. this is why a looking glass does not show how you look to another human. it shows you the only way you can see yourself, which is in the reverse.

ok. so what if the world was a mirror showing you a reverse image? you think you’re looking at the world but you’re actually looking at yourself. you are looking at all the ways you reject yourself, withhold from yourself, are blind to the value of your own gifts. you are looking at all the ways you believe you should suffer. you are looking at all the ways you betray or withhold the truth from yourself. you are looking at all the ways you make yourself feel small. you are looking at all the ways you rob yourself or waste your own time.

this means that the fastest and surest way to fix your experience of the world is to fix your experience of yourself. you are going to seek, find and stop abandoning the wounded parts within you that are in pain. they just want you to accept the truth so they can return you to your truth. the only way out is through, and the only way through is felt.

this is what will fix your experience of the world. you’ll stop accepting pain for yourself, and that is how you will stop accepting pain from others. your life will right itself. once you toss your walkie-talkie in the trash, the negativity people broadcast will stop having anything to do with you. it will just be there, like a radio station you don’t listen to anymore: you know it’s still there but you no longer play it for yourself. God only knows how many people are still tuning in for more. maybe they all fell asleep with the wrong station on and that’s what has been making nightmares of their dreams?