Turn The Other Cheeks!

We all remember the old way as taught by the Old Testament...."An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth".  Well we all know what that does....leaves everyone toothless and blind.  Then we were told "turn the other cheek".  Well, I always had an issue with that because it felt co-dependent.  How many of us have taken what feels like abuse and just stood there allowing for more?  When I did the 12-steps in CODA-codependents anonymous,  I learned a lot about what enabling was.  I realize that often, people are driven to act out in certain ways and when we do nothing or encourage it, we are feeding their pain body and bringing in more perceived abuse. 

Since I believe all spiritual teachings like the Bible, Koran, Torah, Course in miracles, Tao te Ching, The Script, etc are all made up, I decided to make up my own translation of Jesus' famous quote. What if he was misquoted?  What if the translation from Aramaic to English was flawed?  What if Jesus and other great prophets were not telling us to just take it or fight back? What if the actual quote was "turn the other cheeks and walk away"?  That makes way more sense to me.  Eckhart Tolle says. "sometimes the most conscious thing we can say is a firm NO!"  When I am in the presence of someone that says or does something that doesn't feel good to me,  what works pretty well for me is to sing in my head..."I love myself....more than I love you loving me. I love myself....my love."  Then I can turn the other cheeks and walk away.