Resumo de Self Betrayal - Ernest Sumelong

Self Betrayal

I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself, writes Oriah Mountain Dreamer in her book ?The Invitation?. The only way to appear good is not to betray the other person but ourselves, the important thing is not just to appear good, but to be good by not betraying ourselves. The one person we have often lived far from is the person who lives closest to us, that is ourself. All of us do struggle to make a living without living a life. We have tried to be true to others and disappoint the one that needs the truth. Man has been able to read and understand foreign languages, tamed wild beasts, created and mastered complicated machines, gone to the moon and back, defeated enemies at wars but has had great difficulty knowing himself, mastering those small emotional longings, those little truths that make us ourselves. We always find time to meet appointments, attend meetings, but not find time enough to sit with ourself to give it that only companion it really badly needs. Oriah Mountain asks; if you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul; if you can be faithless and therefore trustworthy. Sometimes, we feel disappointed, frustrated, abandoned and it is like we are living in another planet because we often look for someone we can trust more than we can trust ourselves. Often we have gone out to make peace and create a peaceful environment while we have left our hearts at war within. Thus our lives become empty, void of real moments of aliveness. In our desperate struggle to please others, to appear strong and succeeding, we often disappoint and betray ourselves because we do forget our humanness, that we can sometimes fail or that we are weak. Our dishonesty to ourselves often results in frustrations, hate, vioelnce and suicide.
Our life is like a car driving to a destination. At certain points, we need to stop and check the engine, mileage, change oil, refuel, and understand its strengths and weaknesses.The paradoxe is that life gives us the opportunity to live and be happy but we have an illusion of happiness without happiness itself. The hard part, the place where we hope wisdom will find us, is in deciding where and when we must break a promise to be true to ourselves. The evidence of self betrayal manifest itself in pain and disappointment

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