Saturday, January 20, 2024

Quiroga - 206

 KNOW YOUR SHADOWS

Know your shadows, but do not give them importance, because all of them, without exception, are made of ignorance, and there is no reason high enough that can serve as a pretext to elevate your ignorance to any type of dignity.

Precisely, the problem of the relationship with the shadows lies in the fact that the shadows kidnap consciousness and demand a ransom payment, in other words, the game of the shadows is to force you to grant them importance, knowing that they are worthless.

It is quite common, even ordinary, for us to fall in love with our shadows, because we see in them a certain elegance, like in vampires in the movies, and we feel attracted to the shadows, we know it well in the depths of our soul, in search of self-destruction, but the shadows do not destroy us, on the contrary, they cook us over a slow fire so that, by familiarizing ourselves with the torment of ignorance, instead of redeeming what torments us, we authorize ourselves to torment people in the same way we torment ourselves.

It’s the opposite of “Love others as yourself.”

Torment your fellow men with the same impetus that you torment your own soul.

Nothing can stay the same forever, it is necessary to embrace the necessary transformation that time produces in people who are attentive to how life unfolds, and are not afraid to mature and put what they have learned into practice.

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