Sarah Sati

When I was younger, if something didn’t go my way, I would often sabotage myself.

I would use experience as an excuse for self defeating behaviors, or more apt, I would use it as an excuse NOT to do the self uplifting behaviors I said I wanted to do.

This was the stage of development in between being fully self responsible and fully blaming of others.

It was an important step.

Someone who has passed this stage of development might see someone they love in it and tell them to stop.

This is them forgetting that being there, really being in it, is exactly what is necessary to get past there.

You can’t get to Florida from California driving without going through the middle of America. Anyone who tells you otherwise has either never taken the trip or forgotten the route.

So what I’m saying is; drop the story about how where you are right now, or where someone you love is right now, is bad.

Stop listening to others who have forgotten the value of all stages on the path, or never been in your shoes. And ask yourself: are you this someone giving ignorant advice?

We want to learn to fully be with the experience of now, no matter how negative, even more so the negative. And we want to support this journey in others.

This is the route to progress.