Have you ever noticed that sometimes the great gurus in our lives are the people who really drive us crazy! People we really dislike or even hate. Usually we think we need to go to India and find a great spiritual teacher to go higher in consciousness, but is that true? I've noticed that my greatest teachers have often been the people who have triggered the most pain in my life! Being with them was so painful that it forced me (eventually) to ask questions, go within, and search for answers to why! Why are things like this? Why is this so painful! Now that this has happened so many times in my life, I've started to understand the mechanism and see that these people were my great teachers! They always showed me exactly what I needed to look at, investigate and learn, even if I was kicking and screaming the whole time!
If you don't believe me, try for yourself. Pick someone in your life who has been the cause of real pain for you. It could be your mother or father, it could be your ex partner, it could be your mother-in-law, it could be one of your children.... Then make a list of all the things you've learned because this person was or is in your life! Be as honest as you can. It's a really interesting experiment.
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