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, 07-31-2006 - 2:23pm
I have this great mental image of Ma Kettle ... hair a mess, totally exhausted, dirt poor, washing diapers, a kid on each hip and a couple more pulling on her apron, eight or ten more of them raising a ruckus. *shudder* LOL! Hadn't thought of that. Wow with 14 kids, that means you would spend ten and a half years pregnant!!! Yikes! LOL!
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Mon, 07-31-2006 - 3:22pm
I had to go down that path a few times myself. Each time I'm amazed at how may "Sisters" are there to guide you. Good luck on the restart.
Zen
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Mon, 07-31-2006 - 9:44pm

I believe in reincarnation & I believe that we "hang out" with the same souls/people as our lives progress.

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Tue, 08-01-2006 - 1:30am

I hope I'll be able to explain so that you understand completely.

Sometimes I think of the religions and how it begun... people were frightened of forces of nature, superstition is in our blood, so people tended to make up religions, no actual experience made them create a religion.

That goes for faith as well. The fear of dying made us create all sort of theories about "the next world".

So basic of my post was: I have a feeling there's nothing out there, people all made it up to ease the fear of dying.

You get it now?

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Tue, 08-01-2006 - 10:28am

I agree about religions (the stories and doctrines and such) having been created by people to explain their surroundings.

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Tue, 08-01-2006 - 2:38pm

No, Ginger, I don't believe it, but when in time of doubt, I tend to question everything and come to the very possible beginings of creation, religions...

I'm sure you have been at some point in your life in inner darkness like me now. I don't think there's one single person who more or less didn't question beliefs in one way or another.

I'm just saying that sometimes I think (when in this extreme dark time) how there really is nothing except this physical world. Deep down inside I'm sure I don't mean it but like my dad says "when they lay you in the grave there you are and no where else". So I kindda wonder, what if...

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Tue, 08-01-2006 - 4:17pm

I'm sure you have been at some point in your life in inner darkness like me now.


Absolutely!

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Fri, 08-04-2006 - 7:24pm

I believe in reincarnation and I believe we have certain people who we tend to stay with us throughout our lifetimes. And I believe that we are here to learn with each lifetime. I don't know if we actually make plans on what we are going to do in our next life, but I think someone we've shared a life with before may come into our reincarnated life and play a part in something we need to learn in order for us to move on. I don't think we are suppose to know why we are here in this lifetime. I think with each life, we are given struggles to work through until we finally reach the point where we can move on to a higher level.

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