ARMED BY ADVERSITY

Added: 2026-05-26

[00:00:00]See myself as having two lives.

[00:00:03]This life and the first life was being a scapegoat.

[00:00:08]I understand that very well now. They're all dead now, but this is what happened.

[00:00:13]I wrote this in my journal. Scapegoat, every cruelty taught them discernment.

[00:00:19]Every silence, self-reliance.

[00:00:22]Every betrayal taught them how to face the truth.

[00:00:28]Far more unshakable. You become unshakable.

[00:00:33]All these things for the mere survival, you had to get so strong to overcome it.

[00:00:40]I should thank God for it.

[00:00:42]I wouldn't have this wisdom had I not gone through it.

[00:00:46]The ex-scapegoat nar- empath. He becomes an empath because he is so sensitive to other people's moods.

[00:00:55]Usually gets involved with a narcissist.

[00:00:58]Now, the narcissist he gets away from them though because the narcissist is so mean. They shape the empath until finally it gives them the strength to escape. They shape them to do the very thing to escape them.

[00:01:14]Very interesting. [music] I've been involved with many narcissists and they gave me the tools to escape them.

[00:01:22]To stay silent, to make my plans, to not tell them, and then suddenly I'm gone.

[00:01:28]The empath has had enough.

[00:01:31]He walks away carrying the fire in his heart. He was burned alive with this >> [music] >> and he walks away with the fire.

[00:01:40]And now other people listen to his words.

[00:01:43]>> [music] >> Yeah. We're shaped by narcissists.

[00:01:47]It's not a doomed thing.

[00:01:51]It's our best teacher.

[00:01:53]That damn narcissist >> [music] >> taught us all we need to know.

[00:01:59]Pain is the teacher. Remember that.

[00:02:03]Pain teaches us all we need to know.

[00:02:07]Just think of the paradox there.

[00:02:11]Just think of how if it doesn't kill you, it makes you stronger and strongest.

[00:02:18]It makes you a discoverer, a forerunner, a path breaker.

[00:02:23]It makes you the greatest.

[00:02:26]And it's all through history. Look at famous people all through history.

[00:02:30]They went through incredible things.

[00:02:33]And it gave them a second sight.

[00:02:36]>> [music] >> It gave them a wisdom far beyond where others could have had through book knowledge. Book knowledge is nothing.

[00:02:43]You have to experience it.