Explaining the thinking mind
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I want you to imagine that you live on a planet where everyone
has a skin disease. For two or three thousand years, the people on
your planet have suffered the same disease: Their entire bodies
are covered by wounds that are infected, and those wounds really
hurt when you touch them. Of course, they believe this is a normal
physiology of the skin. Even the medical books describe this
disease as a normal condition.
When the people are born, their skin is healthy, but around
three or four years of age, the first wounds start to appear. By the
time they are teenagers, there are wounds all over their bodies.
Can you imagine how these people are going to treat each
other? In order to relate with one another, they have to protect
their wounds. They hardly ever touch each other's skin because it
is too painful. If by accident you touch someone's skin, it is so
painful that right away she gets angry and touches your skin, just
to get even. Still, the instinct to love is so strong that you pay a
high price to have relationships with others.
Well, imagine that a miracle occurs one day. You awake and
your skin is completely healed. There are no wounds anymore, and
it doesn't hurt to be touched. Healthy skin you can touch feels
wonderful because the skin is made for perception. Can you
imagine yourself with healthy skin in a world where everyone has
a skin disease? You cannot touch others because it hurts them,
and no one touches you because they make the assumption that it
will hurt you. By Mastery of love - Don Ruiz
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