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Learning to Understand Life

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Spirit asks me if I would wish anyone else to share

Such a relationship as we seem to.

 

The answer to that one is easy, and simple.. No.

I would not wish for anyone the stress of the strugggle

I experience, with no end in sight.

 

Why do you continue?

 

I’m not aware of any option. Besides, I seem to

Need to hold on as long as I can.

 

Why?

 

There could be some reward, and perhaps

Learning is its own reward.

 

What are you learning?

 

To understand life.

 

What have you learned so far?

 

That it’s still a mystery, to me.

 

Yes.

 

 

 

Alone or in a Crowd

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Spirit tells me that individuality does not necessarily mean

Exclusion from oneness.

 

We each are as we each are, alone or in a crowd. We can

Never not be what we are, but we can pretend, for

Whatever reason or reasons.

 

However, the danger of pretending to be what we

Know we are not arises when we forget that we are

Pretending.

 

Our response to any experience is a very individual one,

Regardless of how many others may share that

Experience with us. Our personal response changes us,

Sometimes at a very deep level of our existence, our

Being, our essence.

 

This, Spirit tells me, is the purpose of experience:

To help us become aware of who and what we are,

As individuals and as one with Life.

 

 

 

Compassion flows as a Pressure Gradient

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Spirit tells me that compassion flows

When it does, as a pressure gradient,

In response to a recognition of

Suffering, as that suffering flows

Back to us, to be relieved by

The compassion that we send

To those for whom we care for,

When we recognize their pain.

 

We may pity the plight of whomever,

And be thankful that we do not share

Their pain. but, claims Spirit,

When we feel compassion, we

Not only recognize the pain,

We feel it as we would our own.

 

Rules can teach  us, or try to,

To feel pity for people or animals,

In distress, but, only personal

Experience can teach us

Compassion.  It is

A precious gift we give, and in

The giving, we share a common

Bond. Compassion expresses

Awareness of having suffered, and

We share that experience with those

For whom we feel compassion.

 

Why do we feel compassion? We

Know the pain and, perhaps we

Suffered more than the one for

Whom we feel compassion, because

Perhaps we suffered alone, and

Could not Wish that pain

On those we care for, whether

We know them or not.

 

Nothing more and nothing less

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Spirit tells me that

Other seekers of enlightenment

Who read of my struggle to learn

From Spirit, while maintaining, or

Attempting to maintain, devotion to

Physical as well as spiritual life,

Alone or with others who are

Alone together, more or less,

May find that my struggle

Offers something to think about

That may help them grow in

Understanding of why

Life is as it is, or

Seems to be,

An endless cycle or series of

Experiences, designed,

If they are,

To teach us what?

 

Spirit tells me that

We share what we care

To share, nothing more, and,

Nothing less.

An explanation of Universal Laws

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An explanation of Universal Laws.

What a book that would be.

To learn and teach, or share

How Universal Laws operate

In our everyday life,

And how, if respected and

Followed, would

Change our world,

One person at a time.

 

To respect the world

We live in, the world

That we are a part of.

To understand that

To violate Universal Laws

Is to violate ourselves, and

To honour them is

To honour ourselves.

 

Yes, but,

What are they?.

 

Personality is not Physical

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Spirit tells me that a person, any person

can be described according to

physical features, but, that

personality cannot be

so described.

Personality is a dynamic interaction of

intellect and emotion, fluctuating in

variable quantities and strengths of

particular qualities in, or during,

different situations, and

personality is a blend of

more or less consistent

thought, emotional, and

behavioral patterns.

 

But, Spirit tells me,

an individual’s behaviour can

reflect thoughts and emotions, or

it can be used as a mask,

to protect or hide them,

not necessarily for the purpose of

deceit, but to separate

shared and private worlds.

We choose what we care to share.