Episodul 13

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🧭 Self-awareness, interpersonal relationships, charity, and coexisting with diversity

🔹 1. Self-awareness – An encounter with the Self

Commentary:

Carla Furtado opens this segment with a personal confession:

> "When I was a teenager, I loved reading books from the self-help and esotericism section."

This authentic introduction sets the tone for a sincere reflection on the inner journey. The author demystifies the notion of self-awareness and brings it into an accessible yet profound realm:

> "Self-knowledge means looking at yourself."

🔍 She talks about the progressive process:

Initially, you are curious.

Then you begin to find yourself in discourses.

After that comes liberation from external searching in favor of inner truth.

following, searching outside, because you recognize that everything starts inside you."

💡 This paragraph is the keystone: your truth does not come from outside, but from a sacred process of remembrance. It is a valuable lesson for educators, but also for parents: to encourage children to listen to their souls.

> "Your true Self is Pure Love, it is Perfection. Even if the human mind perceives it as imperfections."

🎯 Central message: Self-knowledge is not social perfection, but divine acceptance of the real Self.

🔹 2. Interpersonal relationships – Connecting with the Other

The author extends the idea of self-knowledge to relationships with others, proposing a beautiful metaphor:

> "We are all one Being, like a human body. Each organ has its function..."

🌐 This point of view promotes unity in diversity: each person is important, different, but an integral part of the whole.

> "Some ignore them, others identify with them, others have completely opposite opinions... and that's okay."

🛑 A warning is also given: diversity can unite or divide us, depending on our level of consciousness.

> "Interpersonal relationships are a skill, an intelligence."

🎯 Key message: Knowing how to relate means knowing how to be present with yourself and others.

Carla insists that education should cultivate this intelligence. She criticizes current systems that promote:

quick judgment

excessive competitiveness

control at the expense of freedom

> "The pandemic has shown that schools needed reform, just like family relationships..."

It is an indirect call for an education of the heart, balancing technological progress with emotional health.

🔹 3. Charity – The reflection of love in action

This section begins with a simple and powerful sentence:

> "We need each other, we need our love."

Carla redefines charity beyond the idea of "donation" or "pity." She sees it as a natural extension of self-love.

> "The parts of yourself that you ignore cause you to ignore parts of your Whole."

🌀 Charity thus becomes a bridge between personal healing and collective healing.

> "Charity is good for the soul of the recipient and the giver, because it is the same thing."

📌 Charity is not just action, but also attitude. It does not need to be displayed, but lived authentically, in simple gestures, in everyday life.

> "We give crumbs of affection, praise, respect, opportunities, and love to our own selves..."

🎯 Key message: Without genuine self-love, external charity is emptied of its power.

🕯️ General conclusion of the chapter:

Carla Furtado builds a coherent arc:

Self-knowledge leads to healthier relationships,

which generate empathy and genuine charity,

and these virtues support peaceful coexistence in diversity.

She does not offer quick fixes, but rather an inner journey that she proposes to every reader—whether educator, parent, young person, or seeker.

🧩 Defining quotes:

"What others say about you will not matter, because... it will not be your True Self."

"An unexp

ected smile changes a life."

"Charity is an action that generates profound transformations and recognition of the powers of the heart."

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