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Are we here on the Earth to learn certain lessons about living, and life, or not?
By emptychair
@innertalks (23744)
Australia
January 21, 2016 7:04pm CST
A poem about life, and its lessons
Some tell us that we are only here to learn our indicated lessons.
Is this our blessing, or is it more about enduring painful sessions?
Would we have to own up to any past wrongs in confessions?
Has our soul given us a mission to grow from, by our progression?
My own impression about all of this is perhaps just a digression.
Are we under our soul's suppression, unless we make concessions?
Can we regress from not learning our lessons because of aggression?
No! We are not here to learn to not be us, but to take possession!
The emptiness of life only is removed by the fullness of our growth.
The fullness of our growth reveals to us the true emptiness of life.
When we listen to ourselves, we become more of who we are,
simply because we do not dither around being who we are not!!
"I take all of my life lessons, which some people might call 'mistakes,' and apply them to my future so that I keep growing."
so said the American singer, and actress, Kimberly Caldwell.
Should we all be following her cue though, or not?
Are we really all enrolled into God's school of love then, with our soul acting perhaps as our tutor, and Jesus, and other spiritual masters, as one of our teachers? Why do we have to learn about love anyway?
Love lives in a vacuum with itself and God, until we open up ourselves and allow it to rush into us. When we receive this love, it wants to change us by its very nature, and to help us to grow more like God himself.
We were created in God's image (so says the Christian bible in Genesis chapter 1, verse 27), but this image must be developed for us to see him properly within it then. (This is a bit like how the old film had to be developed too, into a real picture)
This is why we must learn the wisdom of applying the truths of God's love in our own lives too, with an understudying that is never ending, and which is always growing towards reaching an understanding of where God sits within us being us too.
We need to grow closer to God, in other words, for us to become closer to our real selves too.
What do you think?
Have we come here to learn certain lessons, or not?
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6 responses
@Shiva49 (28394)
• Singapore
22 Jan 16
I take everything with a positive spirit and learn more from mistakes, defeats, setbacks. So at the end of the day we have accumulated a lot of experiences and even wisdom. I also believe ultimate justice is not served here as some get away with close to murder or even with that too! So there should be an underlying truth, meaning, and purpose to what we experience and how we live.
I also feel we are expected to act as co-creators. We come with an inner knowing and if we purposely ignore the inner voice, we will have to retake the "test" again. How to balance the needs of the body and the yearnings of our soul decides our destiny. I think we are on autopilot in the sense how we make our choices matters where we land up - siva
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@innertalks (23744)
• Australia
22 Jan 16
The co-creator aspect means to me that we must learn collectively as well as individually.
Some individuals seem to grow faster than the average of everyone else, and then there are some that pull the average back by never seeming to learn anything at all, and repeating their mistakes over and over.
Another aspect of all of this is that we should also learn off each other, and profit from each others mistakes, rather than only rubbing salt in their wounds, so to speak, or trying to punish them too severely, as we do sometimes.
@innertalks (23744)
• Australia
22 Jan 16
@Shiva49 How does cooperation link to love or work in with it though?
Cooperation is the sort linkage that resolves karma, whereas endless arguing and disputing only ever creates more of it.
When we become top heavy both individually and globally/collectively with this karma, perhaps God will clear us out of the world again, or maybe he will create some type of a disaster that might reverse this trend bonding us together in cooperation again, and so start us loving again, rather than hating.
@Shiva49 (28394)
• Singapore
22 Jan 16
@innertalks The issue I think is we create challenges rather negatively by pitting one against another. To cooperate we require unity in thinking and action but we fall much short. We have a selfish take that we want to exclude others even those who want to join us. We treat them as less than welcome and at most just accommodate them but a lower level.
Some want higher intervention to bond us but that may not be forthcoming. I feel we are left to find our own way - siva
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@Mike197602 (15504)
• United Kingdom
22 Jan 16
I don't know.
If we've been put here to learn lessons that implies there is something after life and I just don't know if there is.
It'd be nice to think there was but I'm inclined to think life is a one chance deal...life is all there is.
After you die that's it I think.
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@innertalks (23744)
• Australia
22 Jan 16
I have heard the expression, "What comes around goes around". This would also seem to imply that something is in control somewhere re-dicing it out again.
We do not have to call them lessons though.
Nobody can argue with the fact that we are all continual learners in one way or the other, from the time we are born, until the day we die, unless we get Alzheimers or some other brain disease near our end.
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@innertalks (23744)
• Australia
25 Jan 16
@Shiva49 You raise an important issue here siva.
Here are my thoughts about this:
If we are recycled, how far would this go then?
Would the various parts of God be recycled too?
Would this mean that parts of what he created were initially created poorly, and so need to be recycled, or redone?
Nothing permanently created is recycled as all remains exactly as it was when it was first created, except for perhaps the outer Universe maybe, where things do seem to die, and perhaps it is true that they are then are reborn in other forms, or is that just all appearing to be so, like that?
First there was God, and then he created from himself.
Does God destroy what he creates, or allow it to destroy itself then?
No, the basic building materials stay around, and things just recombine outwardly, and so I guess you could use the word recycle here for this process too.
On the inner trails though the soul itself, once created stays as an imitable permanent part of God, never to be destroyed, and to remain a part of God forever, however if we refuse to connect to our part of God, or to our soul, what we are now on the outer will recycle in a way as God always works to find other attachments and ways for his created soul to grow.
The outerness that is not working for his soul is washed away it seems and reformed into something else that can better assist his created soul to grow in the wisdom of the truths of his love, and their application in their lower body’s lives.
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@kaka135 (14994)
• Malaysia
25 Jan 16
I believe we have our purpose of life. I am not sure who determined this, perhaps God or ourselves. I just think once we have found out purpose of life, our calling, we will be contented, we will walk to the direction we want to go, if we are off track, we'll remind ourselves to get back on to the path. Hence yes, I think we are here to learn certain lessons.
"I take all of my life lessons, which some people might call 'mistakes,' and apply them to my future so that I keep growing."
I like this saying, I didn't know it's from an American singer and actress. I always think no matter what we have chosen, what have happened to us, good or "bad", these are all lessons to us, and we surely grow from them. Some said all these lessons train us to be tougher and stronger, but I think these make us wiser. Perhaps it's because I am here to seek for wisdom, but not to be tough in life.
I am happy and grateful for walking and growing in my life.
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@innertalks (23744)
• Australia
25 Jan 16
Yes, I also think that the whole point of all of this is to help us to grow in the wisdom of being able to live best from love. To me, at the heart of it all, we must all learn to better love, more wisely.
If we could love wisely, why would we get upset at others then?
The problem is though, that some people seem to not want to walk the path of love for now.
They do not yet realise that they are already on it, just walking along backwards on it, and also at times with their eyes firmly closed.
When you bump into things, it is always because of your own ignorance, in the fact that you have not acted wisely enough, because in a way, either your inner or outer eyes are still remaining partially closed.
@artemeis (4189)
• China
3 Feb 16
It depends on how one looks at it. Some people can just breeze through and not learn a single lesson at all. Then there will be some who will simply submit to the "fate" determined by their culture, customs and traditions. At another place, there will be people digging into philosophies, theories or theologies to find the answers.We are just living in a world of diversity and so there's really no one definite answer here to your question.
However, my view is such that unless one goes through life doing and trying everything relating to work there will be no learning and nothing will improve. If mistakes are lessons then how can one make mistakes when one does not even lift a finger or take the first step with one's feet. So, whether we are here to learn a lesson about living life or not would depend on if we are actually living or not.
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@innertalks (23744)
• Australia
3 Feb 16
My question implies more than what it says.
In some ways, when I ask why we are here, I am thinking more about what factor has placed us here. If we are here to learn lessons, who has set the curriculum up for us then?
What we are all doing here can partly be determined by our observing the different responses of people to being here, but I am really indirectly asking a much bigger question.
If we are learning, who or what is our teacher? God? Our Soul? The Universe itself?
If we are not here to learn, is life just a wasted effort in effect, where we learn for a while, then revert back, to a previous stage to repeat it all again.
Perhaps if we destroy ourselves, this will happen.
There are no lessons greater than the learning.
This means that things are expanding and contracting, and the learning is more a growth ring on each person from allowing love to push this process through them.
There is nothing to learn, but there is everything to relearn.
@innertalks (23744)
• Australia
3 Feb 16
@innertalks For the World to be even here and working, something to my mind must be behind this that knows how it all works. Call it God or the Universe, we are all just relearning what already exists, or is known already.
This is what is meant by the phrase in the bible I think, that there is always nothing new. All things are here now, just as they always have been, and always will be.
Things must already be learnt, otherwise nothing would work. The thing is though, what knows this. It might be God, but then again, it might just be us too.
Maybe we know it all already too, at least in our hearts.
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@innertalks (23744)
• Australia
22 Jan 16
Yes, we have a chance to learn something every day that we live. Some of us are hard to learn though, and keep making the same mistake, until it finally dawns on us that we can learn from the mistake, and so avoid it the next time, something similar to this comes along.
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@whiteream (8567)
• United States
24 Jan 16
Yes, i do believe we are here to learn lesson so that we can serve God better. I believe we all have a place in God's kingdom, we have to live may live to be really to play the role that God has for us.
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@whiteream (8567)
• United States
24 Jan 16
@innertalks maybe that is what it is all about growing in wisdom.
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@innertalks (23744)
• Australia
24 Jan 16
@whiteream Yes, I would agree with that, the bible even said that Jesus himself grew in his wisdom.
"And Jesus grew in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man."
Luke chapter 2, verse 52.
Bible > Luke > Chapter 2 > Verse 52? Luke 2:52 ?Parallel VersesNew International VersionAnd Jesus grew in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man.New Living TranslationJesus grew in wisdom and in stature and in favor with God and all the people.E
@innertalks (23744)
• Australia
24 Jan 16
It is obvious to me that we seem to come here not knowing anything much at all. We learn a lot of outwardly gained knowledge as we go along. The thing is though that inwardly I am coming to believe and to feel that we already really know it all inwardly, somehow.
Perhaps the lessons, and experiences help us to connect bridges from our inner knowing to its outer showing, and so we can learn then to live what we know inwardly, outwardly with greater mindfulness of understanding, and a growing wisdom in our lives.
