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What Attracts You to Other People?

Updated on May 22, 2020
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Beata works as a qualified primary school teacher, a councillor for drug and alcohol addiction and a farm caretaker for organic olive grow.

In reality life involves pain

Happiness - we all want it, we all crave it, we all strive for it...but what is this elusive thing we are looking for? A sense of pleasure, gladness or gratification - that doesn't always last?
Happiness - we all want it, we all crave it, we all strive for it...but what is this elusive thing we are looking for? A sense of pleasure, gladness or gratification - that doesn't always last?
The harder we pursue pleasurable feelings, the more likely it is that we will suffer from anxiety and depression.
The harder we pursue pleasurable feelings, the more likely it is that we will suffer from anxiety and depression.
What does it mean to live a rich, full and meaningful life? Does it mean to take action to cherish the things that truly matter deep in our hearts? Does it mean to move in directions that we consider worthy?
What does it mean to live a rich, full and meaningful life? Does it mean to take action to cherish the things that truly matter deep in our hearts? Does it mean to move in directions that we consider worthy?
Does it mean to clarify what we stand for in life and to act accordingly? In a life well lived, it is possible to experience the full range of human emotions: pleasure, fear, sadness, anger and pain...
Does it mean to clarify what we stand for in life and to act accordingly? In a life well lived, it is possible to experience the full range of human emotions: pleasure, fear, sadness, anger and pain...
As human beings, we are all faced with the prospect of getting sick and dying. Sooner or later we all will lose someone close to our hearts through separation, rejection or death...
As human beings, we are all faced with the prospect of getting sick and dying. Sooner or later we all will lose someone close to our hearts through separation, rejection or death...
We will all come face-to-face with crisis, disappointment, and failure. Painful thoughts and feelings will follow us....everywhere...
We will all come face-to-face with crisis, disappointment, and failure. Painful thoughts and feelings will follow us....everywhere...
We can't avoid pain, but we can learn to handle it much better... to make room for it, rise above it and create a life worth living.
We can't avoid pain, but we can learn to handle it much better... to make room for it, rise above it and create a life worth living.
If you love somebody deeply, you know you will feel pain. There is no way to avoid it. You can still be open to your feelings though, accepting the pain as a natural part of love.
If you love somebody deeply, you know you will feel pain. There is no way to avoid it. You can still be open to your feelings though, accepting the pain as a natural part of love.
Accept the painful memories. Do not fear them - they happened in the past and can no longer hurt you. No one wants to feel pain, but everyone feels it.
Accept the painful memories. Do not fear them - they happened in the past and can no longer hurt you. No one wants to feel pain, but everyone feels it.
Observe your pain, breathe into it and allow it. If you are breathing, you are alive. It never stops until the day you die. Use it to help you stay connected with life...a breath of fresh air, a deep sigh of relief after a stressful day...
Observe your pain, breathe into it and allow it. If you are breathing, you are alive. It never stops until the day you die. Use it to help you stay connected with life...a breath of fresh air, a deep sigh of relief after a stressful day...
Connect fully with your environment that can you see, hear, touch, taste and smell. Abandon the search for a pain free existence.
Connect fully with your environment that can you see, hear, touch, taste and smell. Abandon the search for a pain free existence.
The more that you try to avoid the basic fact that all human life involves pain...the more you will struggle with that pain when it arises. Thus you suffer even more...accept the pain, just like you accept the love that inevitably comes with living..
The more that you try to avoid the basic fact that all human life involves pain...the more you will struggle with that pain when it arises. Thus you suffer even more...accept the pain, just like you accept the love that inevitably comes with living..
I am coming to peace within myself. Layer by layer, the painful issues of the past soften and resolve. I listen to many stories that are riveting, inspirational and moving. Most people have had a more difficult journey that mine has been.
I am coming to peace within myself. Layer by layer, the painful issues of the past soften and resolve. I listen to many stories that are riveting, inspirational and moving. Most people have had a more difficult journey that mine has been.

To The Chosen One

Pain and love,
not angry pain, not tearful pain, not reproachful, not desperate...
Pain and love...pain and bliss.
As in birth, as in death.

When I was a little girl,
Grandmum told me a secret:
"If you really want something,
there will be a way."
Is it angels or the power of positive thinking?
Is it determination to act
or the courage to be guided?


Between these impulses the adventure is born.
The roaring of the ocean never stops.
Almost everyone is struggling.
Colours so sharp
Hot, fluffy sand
with dry, salty crust on top
The taste of tears in your mouth


The pain just doesn't go away
And you are not alone
This realisation comes
when you open your eyes,
your ears and your heart
and you hear other people out.
You stop and ponder,
why should this be?


Sunshine breaking into trillions
of fragments
in the shallow.
The power of money,
love and creation.
Living so high
Falling so low
Rocks meeting water
Sand meeting grass
Blue meeting blue on the horizon
Human meeting perfection,
the perfection of the human mind.


On a damp, fog-shrouded morning, a paleonthropologist from Madrid stands before the entrance to El Sidron and gingerly lowers himself into a black hole.

An underground river had hollowed out a deep vein of sandstone. Ten minutes into the cave,
he discovers 'the tunnel of bones'.


Located here are the last nine Neanderthals -
five young adults, two teenagers, a child about eight and a three year-old toddler.

All showed signs of nutritional stress in their teeth - not unusual in young Neanderthals
late in their time on earth. But a deeper desperation is etched in their bones.


They were cannibalised by the first humans.
Whoever ate their flesh, and for whatever reason, starvation or ritual, within days they died. The ground below them collapsed,
leaving little time for hyenas to scatter the remains.

The scientist picks up the mineralized bone
of our closest prehistoric relative,who dominated Eurasia for 200,000 years. With large brains and enormous strength, they
seemed equipped to face anything on earth -
except for those modern human migrants
from Africa - us.


Why did one kind of human being survive, and the other disappear? With each generation, humans became increasingly skilled at predicting and avoiding danger.


Even now, after the wilderness has been pushed away by the modern world, our foreheads are wrinkled by any of a million and one other common worries. Our minds keep assessing and judging almost everything.


We are living in fast earning and spending times. Most people deal with their money in the same way that they deal with their feelings.
The lucky ones give and receive graciously with a hug and a smile.


They waste money, as if they are not worthy
of holding onto anything precious. Others are insatiable, greedy for more and more.
And some are as tight with their purse as they are with their heart - giving and receiving is awkward and embarrassing for them.

In the early human times, the tight ones would not survive. If your group rejected you, it wouldn't be long before the wolves found you.


Is that why, so much energy is spent worrying whether people will like us? We're always looking for ways to improve ourselves or putting ourselves down because we don't measure up.

We are so sophisticated now. We can dream up a fantasy of a person we would like to be,
then compare our real self to that impossible, perfect image.


Think about the ambition of any Stone Age man. A better chance of survival depends on more food to keep him alive through times of scarcity. Better shelter protects him from weather and wild animals. More children give him a chance that some can survive...

And our modern mind continues to look for more: money, status, love, new car or house.
If you succeed, then you are content for a while
until you want more....

Thus evolution has shaped our minds so that we are almost inevitably destined to be never satisfied...


The stories of a happy childhood are all the same - the parents love each other, there are other children to play with and there is a bit of nature to have adventures in.

The stories of a damaged childhood are all different - unique, tragic and complicated, just like most human lives.

When those children grow up, almost half of them will at some point be so overwhelmed by misery that they seriously contemplate suicide.


With professional help, advice and wordly wisdom, it's difficult to rekindle that spark of the great fire of life...

Love radiates from infants. In springtime, the power of youth abounds but what will happen at the end of summer?

We are living longer than ever before, but with each extra year, we are losing the hunger to conquer the world.


Who knows what the future holds? There is only hope. In the warm afternoon sunshine of mid-life, is the abundance of the harvest.
The joy of sharing....


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