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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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."
"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"? :))
"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?
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.
"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.
I believe as Leila, that many times people are in our lives to complete their own lessons (aka karmic debt?).
hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint. - Erma Bombeck
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