I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate. ~ Arthur Wing Pinero
I read this quote a few times and now I believe I understand it, that our karma or our lessons continue until we change how we greet them, they enter back into our lives perhaps in another body or similar relationship.
Is it possible that how we act today will bring to us this in another gate?
That if we act in love and awareness, we will greet love and awareness in our future?
What we sow we reap.
When we allow others to mistreat us, we will get more folks who want to mistreat.
It seems the wonderful Universe gives back to us that which we sow without fail.
The old saying, “God helps those who help themselves…” He waits for us to help ourselves.
Many will beseech God to help them, to fix them, to do this and that for them, while they are the ones who hold the power.
I was waiting for people to learn how to treat me better when it was I who had to learn this lesson. And in another gate flowed volumes of folks to teach me how to treat me better.
They were not different folks, but the same ones coming in as they usually did and it was up to me to stand up and put a stop to the way they were treating me.
I had to stop using myself to please them.
I had to start using myself to please me.
Most of who entered into my gate of now were surprised at this new response, this new me, this new voice and most turned around and left no longer interested in playing this new game with me.
The new game of fair trade, this equal partnership or freedom to be a sovereign nation co-existing with them, where the boundaries don’t overlap, where we are not holding each other up, but rather supporting each other to be one strong individual unit, was not a game for co-dependents.
What we do, what we say, how we treat ourselves today will come a knocking on our door in the future.