LAW OF COMPENSATION
"For everything you have missed, you have gained something else;
and for everything you gain, you lose something else."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"For everything you have missed, you have gained something else;
and for everything you gain, you lose something else."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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This is an ancient truth we know to be true in our lives, esp if you’ve gone thru the ringer, and thru shit and have come thru the darkness out on top.
You’ve always found some form of compensation.
You’ve always found some form of compensation.
And the Ancients knew it, this above wisdom rings true, with the Stoics, and Buddhists, and Taoists.
If you’re already familiar with these concepts, and HOW to apply it to you’re life then good, for it’s one of the greatest superpowers you can ever have and wield.
If you’re already familiar with these concepts, and HOW to apply it to you’re life then good, for it’s one of the greatest superpowers you can ever have and wield.
Now what’s funny is that life is waves, ebb and flow, highs and lows, and that when we’re riding high, truth be told no one has to be told what to do, or how to act. It’s all fun and games and you’re smiling and full of life and vigor and NRG and you just having a damn ball.
It’s easy, as hell. No one needs quote or wisdom, or meta mental models, or law to help them out. There’s prolly some lesson in there, but its worth addressing. When you’re happy, just ride it. You know it when it’s in your face.
So if you’re one of the readers that doesnt need the second part after this, good. No seriously, sincerely happy for you, there are happy go lucky people in life, good, that’s ur Gift God gave you and that should be treasured.
However, mind the last part of the quote, everything you gain, you lose something else. Remind me how this dualistic zen wisdom finds itself even to the most elite athletes of the West.
The Goat, Michael Jordan.
The Goat, Michael Jordan.
In an interview asked if he had any regrets, He said, No I dont have regrets. Because I understand that for anything that I have gained I had to sacrifice something else.
Sounds familiar? Mb he read Emerson, or Zen, or Tao ..
Doubt it.
Sounds familiar? Mb he read Emerson, or Zen, or Tao ..
Doubt it.
People who just live the life and are on the way just stumble upon these gold nuggets and you just breathe that shit in for dear life bc they’re you’re crutch to stand on during the tough times of our lives.
Jordan doesnt even go into regret. Doesnt even ACKNOWLEDGE it.
Jordan doesnt even go into regret. Doesnt even ACKNOWLEDGE it.
He brushes it off, and just says I know I did this, had this NBA career, and was this person, intense and obsessive and it took all of me. So I had x, which meant I didnt have y. He got that. Most of us are still getting this as we go, thats ok tbh.
Now I want to talk about losing — the missing part in the Emerson Quote/Law.
When you’re going thru tough times, might be rn, or might have been in the past, you caught a bad wave. And life is waves. It comes and goes. You gotta SEE that, understand that, internalize that shit.
When you’re going thru tough times, might be rn, or might have been in the past, you caught a bad wave. And life is waves. It comes and goes. You gotta SEE that, understand that, internalize that shit.
Bc or else it will eat you up, as the losses fester and linger and tear you apart from the inside.
You might be going thru relation, financial, mental, physical problems, it can be anything and its hurting you.
You might be going thru relation, financial, mental, physical problems, it can be anything and its hurting you.
But you have to understand, not for me, but truly for yourself, to be liberated, that from something bad, from something you’ve LOST, comes something else in the place. There’s a void, a space just opened up, and life will be sure to fill it up. That’s nature’s way, it’s a law.
Want to mention a tangent to this, Vadim Zelands book Reality Transurfing. Good book.
There he mentions PENDULUMS. It’s always swinging. There are multiple ones swinging. And we always get caught up with one.
There he mentions PENDULUMS. It’s always swinging. There are multiple ones swinging. And we always get caught up with one.
So let’s say you’re going thru a loss, understand that you were swinging with one heavy pendulum and it was swinging you in the WRONG direction. And when you finally Let Go, you are free now.
The old pendulum might swing ur way again, and drag you back, but dont even focus on not focusing on that pendulum for that feeds it energy and makes it swing harder and faster and closer to you again. Understand that there’s an opening now, in time and space.
And that you can choose to swing in another direction, go into another sector of your life. A new chapter. There is a new energy, which you got from all the energy you were putting into a pendulum, a malice, a parasite, a succubus, that was leeching off you.
You channel this energy towards something new and swing towards this new trajectory, direction, intent and will manifest a new vision and chapter in your life.
Had to use the pendulum as an example bc it always stuck with me after listening to that book.
Had to use the pendulum as an example bc it always stuck with me after listening to that book.
After I broke free of a pendulum I just had SO much NRG and I could channel it into newer things which were so much fun and fruitful and made me realize, wait a minute I was just dragging myself down the whole time.
Which is why the law of compensation rang true for me once more. It’s just an old form of hard wisdom that say, you lose something, but dw you will GAIN smth for it in place.
And it takes patience, and wisdom, and experience, and resilience, and truth be told, something all those hard alpha gurus dont dare to talk abt. It hurts. It sucks. Its sad and tragic and aching and rips open gaping wounds. I just wanted to be here, and say, I get that.
You have to get that. You have to be there for yourself, and save yourself, bc no one is gonna do it.
However, find solace in the immutable truths and LAWS of life that things tend to course correct themselves. For the better.
However, find solace in the immutable truths and LAWS of life that things tend to course correct themselves. For the better.
And in the end it will be all for the better, and with good reason, and you will know it, you will know. And then you move on, or have been moving on already and life is good and always has been and you live your life, you live it.
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