“When you come with openness, with a willingness to discover, with curiosity, then you can receive answers. Then truths can be revealed. Then you can create change, even in things that sometimes seem unsolvable.
“If you move through your journey from this inner place, from this stance, then the most wonderful thing can happen – you will love yourself.
“This is the reason why all of this happens – and when we say ‘all of this,’ we mean life itself, and more specifically, the process that culminates in this meeting. All of this happens for the sake of love. All of this happens so that you will love yourself. So that you will discover who you are, what you are capable of, what you need, and what you want, and in this way, love yourself more and more.
“This love is what’s missing, and it’s what you’re seeking, even if consciously you’re focused on healing a problem or creating change in some area of lack. Even if you’re focused on a very specific goal, even if the lack is very concrete, all of this happens so that you’ll learn to love yourself. This is something important to remember.
“It doesn’t happen so that you can understand and know yourself and then change. It’s so that you understand and know, and then love, and from that love, change happens.
“True, fundamental change never occurs through force, although you can force change and it will last for a while. Have you ever tried a diet that didn’t work? Why does this happen, in most cases? Because you’re trying to change yourself without learning to love yourself.
“When change is created in a place where love doesn’t exist, it cannot sustain itself over time, and sometimes it won’t sustain itself at all. When you love yourself, then changes become easier, they become simpler.
“We won’t tell you how to love yourself so that the change you want can already happen. Love is not a tool you can use to change reality. Love is an essence you can become. Love is who you can be.
“Love grows in a place where recognition occurs. That is, when you learn to identify yourself – what you feel, what you want, the different intentions, the desires; as you increasingly recognize the blocks, the barriers, the conditioning, various fears, doubts, and lack of faith. When you recognize all of this more and more, you can choose whether to love yourself or continue to be frustrated that you’re still like this, that once again you’re like this, that it hasn’t changed, and wonder what will be. You can choose whether to play the victim or to surrender.
“We’re aware that we’re suggesting this is easy even though it’s not always easy, since you don’t necessarily consciously choose to be frustrated instead of surrendering. But you can become aware and gradually choose differently.
“What is love? Love is surrender. When you recognize who you are – your emotions, intentions, desires, and the blocks and limitations that exist in one way or another; and you learn to accept that this is who you are, that you’re made up of parts that need healing and parts that need strengthening; when you surrender, love is born, and when love is born, change can occur.
“Often, this isn’t what happens. Often, you learn, recognize yourself, and become frustrated. Frustrated that you haven’t changed yet, that you’re still like this. In this state, change doesn’t happen, and then you become frustrated again. This is how the cycle continues, until at some point you break. When you break and give up wanting this to change already, then surrender can begin to form.
“When surrender begins to form, love begins to be born, and sprouts of change slowly begin to appear”/
