Reflect: Share something from the lesson that blew your mind, or even just gave you a new perspective.

I had such a great experience today id really like to share with all of you.

I met with my sponsor today, a sponsor is someone who guides you through sobriety and the 12 steps of AA.

We were talking about my recovery and this and that, and sometimes i cant help but bring up Kabbalah just because i can relate things and im interested to see what kind of response i would get.

So i told him about what we were learning recently, that the only area of life in which free will exists is in our ability to choose our environment, and then our environment exerts pressure on us until we come into a balance or equilibrium with it.

And he told me an analogy that someone told him once that really made sense to me.

He said “If you were an orange, and someone squeezed you, what would come out?”

Orange juice i said,

“Yes, not apple juice, not grape juice, the only thing that would come out of you is orange juice.”

“Just like if you were a pineapple and someone squeezed you, the only thing that could come out is pineapple juice.”

Yes that makes sense i said

Then he said “what if you were really resentful and someone squeezed you, what would come out then?”

And that made so much sense to me because i have always been a very angry person, and i was always scared of people and being around them because my anger would always come out at work in particular, where there is an enormous amount of pressure put on me all the time.

And it made sense because ive been so happy lately, more happy than ive been in my entire life, and i really want to work hard to cultivate true joy and love within me, because i want that to be the product when my environment exerts its pressures on me.

Because my environments really nurture me, they sustain me, they are what care for me and help me to grow.

My environment is really my garden, and i feel like i am both the gardener and i am the product, so i really want to work hard and facilitate the well being of the garden because i will benefit from that as well, just as a natural byproduct of being in a healthy environment, i dont have to worry about getting this or that because i know i will be taken care of.

Im so happy i can apply this knowledge in my day to day life and this is what i love so much about Kabbalah is when i can make connections to my interactions everywhere i go.

So i am very grateful that this wisdom has opened up and has given me an opportunity to start engaging in it, thankyou so much!