We are only triggered when we see in others what was rejected or not-allowed inside ourselves.
“Whenever you get triggered, somebody pulled that trigger perhaps... but who is the one carrying the ammunition? How you handle people who trigger you, that is your call. At least know that you are the one with all the explosive inside you, and you gain so much liberation if you find out what that ammunition is and how you got it. Then you can learn to diffuse the bomb by getting to know yourself, and that’s where freedom actually lies.” - Gabor Maté
I used to feel that way quite often, then I learned to ask myself in the moment:
1) What am I seeing that I had to learn to shut down in myself?
2) Instead of fighting to shrink that part in someone else (out of my control), how can I grow this part of myself that had never seen the light?
Always a work in progress...
#plebchain
