People Who Push Our Buttons according to Caroline Myss
Button Pusher by dasg
Animating connections (the electricity that occurs between two people) can also include relationships with people for whom you have an immediate dislike or with whom you fall into an instant pattern of power plays. In those cases, you can be sure that you also have something to learn from them, although it may be more challenging than mutual attraction. Carlos Castaneda said that the people from whom we often learn most in life are the “petty tyrants” – the ones who push our buttons and make us see in them the very qualities we most dislike about ourselves.
In terms of your Contract, the petty tyrants in your life are as helpful and significant as your most beloved noble friends. You have agreements to work with both because they each have something to teach you about yourself that you cannot learn anywhere else (Sacred Contracts by Caroline Myss, pg. 44).
The same is true concerning the events of our lives. Not only are we challenged by the difficult people we may encounter but also the difficult events.
I think that what you said is very true. Nice article and you are so telling the truth.Good job
Yah, I like the reminder but I also think this is somewhat boring, regurgitated stuff. I feel like the writer , while providing a positive message, is in some ways taking credit for the previously popularized. In short, the message was pretty much a quote from Carlos, which leads me to give a big “duh” on this one. Sorry to be the bearer, and I certainly do not believe that Caroline (hopefully) intended it, but at some point we have to stop tolerating 1) poster material and 2) un-original plagiarism such as that Carlos-stealing shmuck tha wrote The Four Agreements to make a buck or tout his own brilliance. I can read Carlos, I don’t need anyone else to read him to me. Where’s the new stuff? Where’s the extrapolation or the growth based on what he learned?