A Life of Learning

May 21, 2009A Life of LearningEarth SchoolLife is the province of learning, and the wisdom we acquire throughout our lives is the reward of existence. As we traverse the winding roads that lead from birth to death, experience is our patient teacher. We exist, bound to human bodies as we are, to evolve, enrolled by the universe in earth school, an informal and individualized academy of living, being, and changing. Life’s lessons can take many forms and present us with many challenges. There are scores of mundane lessons that help us learn to navigate with grace, poise, and tolerance in this world. And there are those once-in-a-lifetime lessons that touch us so deeply that they change the course of our lives. The latter can be heartrending, and we may wander through life as unwilling students for a time. But the quality of our lives is based almost entirely on what we derive from our experiences.Earth school provides us with an education of the heart and the soul, as well as the intellect. The scope of our instruction is dependent on our ability and readiness to accept the lesson laid out before us in the circumstances we face. When we find ourselves blindsided by life, we are free to choose to close our minds or to view the inbuilt lesson in a narrow-minded way. The notion that existence is a never-ending lesson can be dismaying at times. The courses we undertake in earth school can be painful as well as pleasurable, and as taxing as they are eventually rewarding. However, in every situation, relationship, or encounter, a range of lessons can be unearthed. When we choose to consciously take advantage of each of the lessons we are confronted with, we gradually discover that our previous ideas about love, compassion, resilience, grief, fear, trust, and generosity could have been half-formed.Ultimately, when we acknowledge that growth is an integral part of life and that attending earth school is the responsibility of every individual, the concept of "life as lesson" no longer chafes. We can openly and joyfully look for the blessing buried in the difficulties we face without feeling that we are trapped in a roller-coaster ride of forced learning. Though we cannot always know when we are experiencing a life lesson, the wisdom we accrue will bless us with the keenest hindsight.The Daily Om
E-mail me when people leave their comments –

You need to be a member of Ashtar Command - Spiritual Community to add comments!

Join Ashtar Command - Spiritual Community

Blog Topics by Tags

  • - (955)

Monthly Archives

Latest Activity

Drekx Omega left a comment on Comment Wall
"I won't comment deeply, on this video, as it makes me very angry and I feel tempted to swear, which I will not...But I will say that my heart goes out to the good English people, of the seaside town of Bournemouth, on the south coast, which has been…"
12 minutes ago
rev.joshua skirvin posted a blog post
 For the past several weeks, cosmic energetics have been very strong and heightening physiological, emotional, and mental discomforts for most people at varying degrees of experience.In the previous several days, the cosmic energetics ,( Solar…
1 hour ago
Drekx Omega commented on Drekx Omega's blog post The Fate of the Nazi Breakaway Civilisation, After 1945
"Hellen asked:
"Drekx Omega, I have a question: are you a contactee, and do you channel these beings from the planet Sirians? Two Sirian planets exist in the solar system, I believe it A and B. You seem to know a lot about them a Do you go on their…"
4 hours ago
Drekx Omega left a comment on Comment Wall
"Hellen said:
"Trump's meeting with the Prime Minister of Russia was a positive turn out, but then there were those who say it was a disaster"

Drekx response:
That meeting was a first and positive step, in the right direction, which will not only…"
4 hours ago
Drekx Omega left a comment on Comment Wall
"Hellen asked:
"Drekx Omega, I have a question: are you a contactee, and do you channel these beings from the planet Sirians? Two Sirian planets exist in the solar system, I believe it A and B. You seem to know a lot about them a Do you go on their…"
5 hours ago
Hellen left a comment on Comment Wall
"off-world beings have ways to connect with everyone on the planet and usually do so by frequency. I've had this experience before. They also use holograms if they prefer to use it. They are also very intelligent and telepathic. I read of Shell…"
9 hours ago
Hellen left a comment on Comment Wall
"I saw the incident of the Randleson Forest. There was much detail in the story, they probably shut it down"
10 hours ago
Hellen left a comment on Comment Wall
"Drekx Omega, I have a question: are you a contactee, and do you channel these beings from the planet Sirians? Two Sirian planets exist in the solar system, I believe it A and B. You seem to know a lot about them a Do you go on their space ships?"
10 hours ago
More…