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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Sat, 07-29-2006 - 1:33pm

Celtic, it's nice if you really accept that belief and are contended with it.

I have heard that thousand of times and for some reason I can't accept it.

How can we learn anything if we were never told (inside) we are here to learn? Sure, many say that, but what can we really learn if we don't know what to learn? I am lost here, I don't know why I'm here.

When we go to school we are told why we go to school. On the other hand the spiritual side of this "learning" is different. We are put on this Earth with million different beliefs and theories when in fact we are just no where in specific. We are not told we are here to learn.

This learning theory sounds to me like someone's coping mechanism to mind-peaceful life. "Why would I bother, it's easier to think I'm here something to learn and go on with my life."

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Sat, 07-29-2006 - 1:56pm

"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"

For me the most appropriate thing would be if my angels started to communicate with me directly, you know like in that serial "Touched by an angel"? :))

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Sat, 07-29-2006 - 2:00pm

"One of the things I've long wondered about--and has really been on my mind lately--is what purpose we serve in each others' lives. Why a particular person might be in my life, or me in theirs. Just what am I supposed to learn from or teach them? Especially those that have a really profound effect, positively or negatively."


Ginger, and what have you figured out about this?

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Sat, 07-29-2006 - 2:06pm

This learning theory sounds to me like someone's coping mechanism to mind-peaceful life. "Why would I bother, it's easier to think I'm here something to learn and go on with my life."


I was understanding your point of view up until you wrote this.


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Sat, 07-29-2006 - 6:35pm
yes, I believe that. From what I read it is true, we choose the next life with the masters, we even see it and how we look, kind of like on a video screen. Earth is a hard planet, somehow we seem to like to come here. sometimes we have no choice. Many thousands of years could be between lives, sometimes a very short period. Love, leila
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Sat, 07-29-2006 - 6:38pm
Sometimes it is their lesson and not ours. Love and forgiveness. Sometimes someone has to learn to forgive us or learn patience or accepting or to learn to do or say things a more loving way. it is more for us to attempt to learn our lessons than to wonder about someone else's. love, Leila
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Sat, 07-29-2006 - 6:39pm
Maybe you had 14 children in another life and swore never to have another. Just a thought. a rest from diapers. Love, Leila
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Sat, 07-29-2006 - 8:53pm


"One of the things I've long wondered about--and has really been on my mind lately--is what purpose we serve in each others' lives. Why a particular person might be in my life, or me in theirs. Just what am I supposed to learn from or teach them? Especially those that have a really profound effect, positively or negatively."



Ginger, and what have you figured out about this?





Absolutely nothing, or I would have said so.



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Sun, 07-30-2006 - 9:08am

I believe as Leila, that many times people are in our lives to complete their own lessons (aka karmic debt?).

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Mon, 07-31-2006 - 2:15pm
I have to say I read your reply to me several days ago and it really floored me (in a good way.) My initial reaction was that I've already forgiven everything I ever blamed for my infertitity so I didn't need to do any healing. Then I re-read my original post and thought about it .. a lot! You're so right! I need to start down that path. I need to deal with it. Thanks for the smack to the forehead. You've really given me an amazing gift!! Thank you so much!
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