Are You Sabotaging Your Job And Your Love Life?

Karina Pawlak
2 min readApr 25, 2024
Kali. 1996. By Karina. Pastel on paper. This work was first displayed at an art exhibition I organized at the El Mocambo in Toronto. You can purchase a limited edition print of it here.

What do you do when you don’t really want something? You try to get rid of it. Sometimes this happens beneath your own radar.

Truth has a certain resonance, a certain glow. This glow contrasts the lie. This causes a disturbance in the force field that is your existence.

You can lie to yourself to a point. Sometimes that point is really far. But eventually that disturbance grows tentacles and starts making moves on your behalf.

It sabotages the job you never really wanted. It sabotages your relationship with that person who you really shouldn’t be with.

You panic. Everything you struggled and forced is in jeopardy.

Kali, the Hindu goddess of death and destruction destroys everything that cannot stand on its own. A life build on falseness is such a thing.

Those tentacles of self sabotage are the energetic arms of Kali. They are not standing for falseness anymore.

Kali is also the goddess of rebirth. The falling of the falseness sets the ground for a life in truth.

To build a life from your truth takes courage.

There will be ridicule and opposition. People telling you that you are living wrong. But what options are there? To stay in the gutter? To build a life on…

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Karina Pawlak
Karina Pawlak

Written by Karina Pawlak

Philosopher. Artist. Powerlifter. Author of Lifting Weights & Growing Organs. https://www.amazon.com/dp/1927023939

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