QOTW: Life Lessons

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QOTW: Life Lessons
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Sun, 07-23-2006 - 11:57am

I've been pondering something lately, ever since I read an article posted on another board about soul mates/families.  One of the statements made was that we make agreements with others souls before incarnating to accomplish certain goals during this lifetime, to learn certain lessons.  I've heard of this before.  DH fully believes he made a pact with his mother in this lifetime to become injured (he was severely burned as a toddler) in order to learn humility, because he'd been in a position of power in a past life and abused it.


I certainly believe in reincarnation.  And I believe that we sometimes reconnect with souls we've known before.  It's an amazing, exciting, sometimes un-nerving experience to 'recognize' someone instantly.  But I'm not sure how I feel about this idea of pre-incarnation agreements to work together.  I look at the soul friends in my life and wonder just what I'm supposed to be learning.  What the lesson is.  How am I supposed to even know?  Or am I supposed to know?


So what do you think?  Whether you believe in reincarnation or not, do you believe we come into this life to learn a particular lesson?  Maybe more than one?  Any ideas what yours might be? 


 



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Mon, 07-24-2006 - 4:25pm

Wow.

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Mon, 07-24-2006 - 8:12pm

I agree.

You start out influenced by your family.

Then it's classmates.

Then it's your won family (DH, kids, etc.)

Each age has it's own cirlce of influences...




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Mon, 07-24-2006 - 11:10pm

You are most probably right - we get snippets as we need them, perhaps, and some people wouldn't recognize a snippet if their guardian angel appeared before them to explain what it is.


Which, in my case, they almost had to do. I can be a little bit dense in matters like these, yanno. I always ask in my meditation that if they have to give me a sign about something, if it could be in a big neon one because I am sure I will miss the subtle ones


One of my closest friends thinks that her son might have been my son in a former life, because when he was around 4/5 years old he'd tell her that I have a mummy tummy and that he'd like to kiss my tummy. He didn't react that way to other people's stomachs, only mine. After he kissed it he declared to his mother that it was definitely a mummy tummy. Strange, eh?


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Tue, 07-25-2006 - 11:25am

I believe we are spiritual beings in physical bodies because that is the best way to learn the lessons.


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Tue, 07-25-2006 - 3:33pm

I believe that we are all here for a reason.

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Tue, 07-25-2006 - 6:08pm
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Tue, 07-25-2006 - 9:37pm

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Wed, 07-26-2006 - 9:14pm

This question is too deep for me to answer right now. I'll have to think about it....

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Fri, 07-28-2006 - 7:58pm
This is OT but your last paragraph is a topic I have gone through. And all the questions it sounds like you have I have pondered as well. For me I didn't heal from the scars of infertility till I learned to forgive my body for...well its betrayal of not functioning correctly. I was amazed how much of my spirituality I thought was wrapped up in my Uterus. Turns out it's not, I had to learn that as well. The spiritual power of the Divine Feminine is not motherhood, although it is a branch it is NOT the tree. The tree is the Feminine itself that the true power. But that was a very long lesion and one I am only starting to understand. After I learned that I found I was at peace with not having kids, and complete with or with out them (very hard to understand by the way) I was than open to fertility treatments necessary for me. Adoption was the path I thought I'd take. I went to a Dr than a clinic to just find out why, and close that door and my path changed. (I don't think one path is better than the other by the way)
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Sat, 07-29-2006 - 10:59am

So what do you think?

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