Our complement is what we lack. So to look face to face at our own complement is to see directly in the mirror what it is that we are lacking.
What we have is us, and what we lack is also us.
Knowing what we have is knowing ourselves and knowing what we lack is also knowing ourselves.
We all tend to not like too much what we lack. Seeing what we lack is also not much fun. What we lack is what we are weak at and what we are weak at means lots of effort, patience, discomfort and so on...
That is the reason why we have many problems with our complement, because we don't like seeing or hearing or facing up to what we actually lack.
We also often don't know what we lack so there is denial in operation. Denial brings sufferings.
We are a lot happier when we interact with someone who is like us, because what we lack does not come up and there is little to no discomfort.
However interacting with someone that we like, even though it is easier does not show us what we lack and does not give us extensive knowledge of ourselves.
If we understand that any complement in whatever form is really ourselves or an aspect of ourselves we will feel something start to change in our attitude towards the many complements that are in our lives.
End (5952).

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