Is our true self also growing itself along with us as we grow?

Yes, thanks. I think everything we go through leads us onto the next step. We need, in this way, what has gone before. Everything serves its purpose in some way. We just need to figure it out at times. We need to extract the lesson from the experience. There is always something that we can learn from anything.

@innertalks You are absolutely right.

@ramapo17 Thanks for commenting here Nancy.

Yes, I think so too. There would not be much point to our living here if we weren't able to grow from it I think, into wiser and better people. The guy also said that we do need to let go of what is holding us back from our being of our true self, and I would agree with him there. He said this: "It's hard to let go because we think all those old thoughts and emotions we cling to so tightly are us. We need new eyes to see the truth about ourselves so we can tell the difference between who we really are, and all that excess baggage we've been carrying but can just drop." This was Guy Findley who sent me that email. He has an interesting website too. Letting go of this old stuff frees us to be who we really are, he also said. Letting go of our infatuations and wrong ideas about ourselves allows us to find a greater real fullness in our self, because we have dropped now the false fullness.

@innertalks I have found some though that think nothing affects any other part of someone else no matter what they do. It to me is insane to think this way. For the world to move forward we all need to learn. History and learning can be a powerful thing.

@Ithink With the world becoming "smaller" and "smaller", because of the speed which news travels, I do not see how anyone can think that they are not affected by some of the things happening right now. The recent mass shooting in Las Vegas, affects us all. How do these world events affect the individual in the world, such as the mass shooting in Las Vegas recently then? The psyche of us all is influenced by events globally and individually as it is built upon the vibrational energies of the transcendingness of the love in us being pushed against the fear in us that these events create, or cause to rise up within us. We all are made from God's love, but he allows the other parts of love to live separately within us too, all the lower energy forms of love. When fear arises in us the real love tries to push it away, and to replace it with itself, as only by still feeling love, can we move past such actions, even as President Trump said himself. Love moves us forwards, other feelings keep us mired to the past. Here is what President Trump said after a violent white nationalist protest took place in Charlottesville, Virginia. "We love our country. We love our God. We must love each other, respect each other and cherish our history and our future together. So important. We have to respect each other. Ideally, we have to love each other." Everything that happens in the World sends such vibrational tremors into the collective consciousness or psyche of which our own consciousness is connected to too, and so all affects all, in this way. That's only how I see it working though.

Yes, everything affects everything else, I think that too. Everything ultimately connects to everything else, and in this way, we are all a part of it all, connected to each other, and to the whole too. We should remember this because it means when we learn, the cosmic/collective consciousness of it all also picks up on this new learning. We all walk forwards together in this way.

Yes, our past learning is always there to help us in the future, as it has become a part of our "mix" if we have learnt from it. This is how I see the philosophy behind this process working. Our emptiness becomes a sort of fullness when we allow it to spill out into life, and so fill up with that life as learning because it then acts as a sponge, soaking up learning from experiences, then it takes it back inside of us, and grows us from it, so we then become larger within God's oneness then, and so his overall "emptiness" becomes a better "emptiness" because we have filled it with our own part. Oneness or emptiness always stays the same in one way, but it can grow in this way within itself, so to speak, as its mix changes from us mixing it up, in this way.

The love in any experience shows us the truth and the lesson there, when we shine its light on the experience, and try to see the grain of gold, embedded within each experience. Nothing comes without some type of a learning experience, and yes, to see life that way is mostly about having an attitude of trusting God and providence that life is indeed set up that way in a good way for us, and not in a bad way, after all.

@innertalks It is up to us to squeeze blood out of stone though the blood will be from our hard toil. We should be able to glean a grain of love, truth, wisdom from every experience and then recall it for our further enriching journey - siva

@Shiva49 Yes, unfortunately though, it's easier said than done, at times, especially when we are heavily stoned under from a rocky life.