{"id":5446,"date":"2016-04-26T13:23:37","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T13:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/home.tovpil.org\/?p=5446"},"modified":"2018-03-21T13:30:21","modified_gmt":"2018-03-21T13:30:21","slug":"amigo-de-si-mismo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/home.tovpil.org\/en_US\/2016\/04\/26\/amigo-de-si-mismo\/","title":{"rendered":"Friend of One\u2019s Self"},"content":{"rendered":"

The first step of liberation consists in making me a friend of myself. Observation of life has brought me to the conviction that there are only a few who \u201clike\u201d themselves; and there are many who are secret enemies of themselves.<\/p>\n

Throughout life, I have had different people express themselves in different words in the following manner: \u201cWe live only once. And in this one chance, it has become my luck to be someone that I absolutely do not like to be. They say that I am obnoxious (for them); if they only knew how obnoxious I am with myself! They say that they do not like the way I am; if they only knew how I do not like my own self..!<\/p>\n

I cannot change this personality for another! What I am will end with me in the grave when I am gone. To think that we only live once and yet I got this personality that I do not like \u2026\u201d And they declare a war of psychological self-extermination.<\/p>\n

From depths like these, arise difficult and conflictive persons that we find in society. They end up saying that it looks like they were born to suffer; and that to have been born is a disgrace.<\/p>\n

I have to affirm that it is no disgrace. You are an excellent gift. You are privileged because if you had three defects, you have thirty other qualities. You are a work of art elaborated by the Divine Artist. You are a masterpiece coming forth from the divine hands.<\/p>\n

If they say that this world is sown with wonders, the greatest wonder is you, bearer of the divine breath making you an immortal. There is only one thing you need: to launch yourself headlong into the powerful and loving arms of the beloved Father with an amen, happy as you are, content with being as you are, and above all else a friend of yourself. Never forget that we are the breath and fragrance of God.<\/p>\n

Extracted from the book The Forces of Decadence by Fr. Ignacio Larra\u00f1aga<\/strong><\/p>\n

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