The Path of Friendship

We often self colonize. And by that, I mean, we take the messages from our caregivers or society about what's wrong with us and internalize it. So we carry a gun aimed at our own self and we consider that self a bad self or parts of it as a bad self. In the moments of self judging, we literally deactivate the more recently evolved parts of our brain. We cut ourselves off from inner freedom and well being an openheartedness. It's hard to feel friendly outwardly when we're war with ourselves, when we're carrying a gun internally.