If you find yourself being much more spiritually advanced than others in your surroundings (say, where you grew up), this might be less because you're a fast learner... and more because you're repeating the grade.
It’s very important to allow yourself to be sensitive so you pick up on what is necessary and safe for you. When you harden your heart you work so much more to extract the information you’d have if you just listened to how you feel.
One easy trap.… It is helpful for reciprocity to exist within relationships and not across relationships. Across relationships, that’s just displacement and it is one sided even though it’s psychologically justified
If you run a full bottleneck analysis in your life and actually get to the bottom of the thing (no matter how many layers deep) - the last bottleneck/domino will always be an emotion you're resisting. That's it. That's how funny and wonderful the actual human condition is.
This is also a manufacturing argument.
Wood carving, clay pottery bamboo & came weaving…. These are not hobbies, they are industries that never got built because we decided imports were progress.
Every plastic spoon bought is a local craftsman who doesn’t exist yet.