Who are you? Are you just living as a past imaged reflection of yourself?

Learning is not learning if it becomes just a reflection of itself in you.
@innertalks (23746)
Australia
July 22, 2020 8:33pm CST
The mirror of learning doesn't exist; only real learning is real. I have heard the idea that we are mostly just our past, living in our present, as us. Our past thoughts, feelings, and actions have made us who we are now. This means that we are not being ourselves, but more being a mirror of our constructed self. The mirror reflects our past back to us now, and we keep owning this mirror, and living as it, rather than our living as our real self, with the mirror, just as a tool. How we are being right now shows us too, the cracks in our mirror, and the areas that we might work on to repair those cracks, by adjusting our past thoughts, beliefs, and reactive, programmed levels of responses, or to show us the areas where we are reacting to life, not flowing with life itself. We are aligning ourselves to our beliefs, not to the love behind them. By doing this, we artificially inflate our beliefs and keep them despite their no longer working for us too. But can we can ever truly be out of alignment with anything, as surely, we are just what we are. There are no mirrors out there. All is what it is. Nothing mirrors anything back to you, or reflects stuff to you, as all is ultimately alive as itself, not an instrument for you, to selfishly use for yourself, thinking that all is just set up for yourself too. The mirror is not the Universe, nor anything outside of you. It actually is inside of you, and it is called, your ego. Life is a series of experiences, not so much learning experiences, but growing yourself in yourself, as God grows himself in himself too. The permutations of yourself bring you continuously changing views, and each view gives you another tunnelled new look into the hidden rock, of which there are not more granites/rock inside, but crystals, only seen as crystals, as you grow the inner eyes to see that. Otherwise, all is just piles of rubble and rocks to you, when you only focus on the outerness of stuff. Consciousness grows on top of what is, as an added on factor of love living in life. Photo Credit: The photo used in this article was sourced from the free media site, pixabay.com Learning is not learning if it becomes just a reflection of itself in you.
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@RasmaSandra (98156)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
23 Jul 20
Being a writer online I am constantly learning something new and finding interesting topics to write about.
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@innertalks (23746)
• Australia
23 Jul 20
Yes, I am constantly receiving emails from people, who I have subscribed to their newsletters, in the past. I am obtaining a lot of ideas for my writing from these too. There is a lot always coming to us to write about, if we sit up and take notice of these new learnings.
@RasmaSandra (98156)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
23 Jul 20
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• Agra, India
23 Jul 20
Well said. I will be reading it again and see if it can go ahead and help me out in my present situation
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@innertalks (23746)
• Australia
23 Jul 20
Thanks. I wasn't sure if a lot of people would agree with me there. A lot of people say that the world reflects back to us how we are inside, but I am saying that the world is just the world, it is our own outer self reflecting through our ego mirror to our inner self that is really going on here. We remain our outer self and ego, unless we see deeper than this, that we are not our past learnings, but the forwards growth that we obtain from them. It's a subtle difference that I was trying to make there.
@innertalks (23746)
• Australia
23 Jul 20
@amitkokiladitya Sometimes, a big problem is that our ego grows with our learning growing too. We are proud of our own learning. I sometimes fall into that trap myself. We can become arrogant, rather than remaining humble, then.
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• Agra, India
23 Jul 20
@innertalks yes... true I completely agree. But sadly some people are so stubborn that they can't see anything except for their big egosm
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@SHOHANA (16093)
• Bangladesh
23 Jul 20
I appreciate learning new things but honestly I'm impatient to learn
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@SHOHANA (16093)
• Bangladesh
23 Jul 20
@innertalks very well explained you are such a teacher who appears here too
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@innertalks (23746)
• Australia
23 Jul 20
I think that l was also more impatient in the past, when l was younger. Now, l more accept that the right learnings for me comes along at the right time. My real learning appears when l am really ready to learn it. Sort of like that old saying, "when the student is ready, the teacher appears".
@Shiva49 (28406)
• Singapore
23 Jul 20
@innertalks I heard The Buddha attained enlightenment only when he stilled his mind and was patient not when he was pushing himself too much going after it - siva
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@moffittjc (128861)
• Gainesville, Florida
25 Jul 20
I am in the process of reinventing and recreating myself to help shape me to what I want to be in the future, instead of the current self that I have let my past dictate. I am not happy with who I am right now, not because of any flaws in myself, but because I have become complacent with my life over the past 10-15 years. That is not how I want to be. I want to be vibrant, creative, adventurous and constantly learning. I'm going through some painful transitions right now, some fearful, but overall I look forward to what the future offers.
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@innertalks (23746)
• Australia
26 Jul 20
That sounds like a real good spring cleaning...lol... Sometimes, a major clean-up is required like that, and it can be very painful. We should not think that the new finished product is fully finished though, as we must continue to grow from there too. We should never stop learning, growing, and restructuring who we are. We are a new self every day, or at least we all have the opportunity to be so....
@just4him (323168)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
25 Jul 20
I agree. I live in the moment and try not to live in the past.
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@just4him (323168)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
26 Jul 20
@innertalks Yes, it does.
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@innertalks (23746)
• Australia
26 Jul 20
Yes, the past can drag us back to it, if we are stuck to it too much. If our present is always fresh, in the moment, this ensures that our future has a chance to be fresh then too
@Shiva49 (28406)
• Singapore
23 Jul 20
Yes, we are opinionated, conditioned, and averse to keeping an open mind. I have always tried to put myself in others' shoes even if they do not have any at times! We can learn from anyone and more from our failures than basking in our perceived past glory. Let us enjoy the ride even as the world passes us by after a life well lived like I tend to do now! siva
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@innertalks (23746)
• Australia
23 Jul 20
The coronavirus ride is a real hard roller coaster to have to ride, though, yet alone to enjoy it, and I expect the world would like a refund on their ticket for this ride now too.