What you experience today informs and alters what you knew yesterday, indeed, who you were. We are in constant transformation. It is only by learning constantly that we move forward. It certainly is not easy, this constant learning and questioning. It is mentally challenging and tiring even. It is hard. Not hard in a sense that we have to concentrate to assimilate what is before us, like when we go through school and have to memorize all kinds of information and data necessary in order to write an exam, but hard because so many life lessons are there before us and we don’t know how to look at them realistically, or, sometimes, we are just not ready to learn and understand what is going on. Life lessons are there before us at every turn. Each decision, each action causes a reaction and is an opportunity to learn. It is really like building blocks. One on top of the other, it all adds up to a life philosophy, to an integrity of actions that may change tomorrow according to today’s experiences, according to today’s new understanding.
Why is it more difficult for some than others to learn and move forward? Good question for which there is an enormous amount of answers. Some think it might be because our way is already traced and that we have to go through certain events during this life. Some blame a previous life that has set us up for certain experiences. Some think it is because we are just not ready at the time when we are faced with a life lesson. Some people repeat the same mistakes over and over again. Isn’t there an alarm bell that goes off in their head, we ask, which warns them? Why is it so difficult to learn? We blame our personality, our genes, our environment, we blame everything but ourselves when we are in a recurring situation we should be avoiding.
So how can we let today’s knowledge sink in and help us move forward, and what is knowledge but an interpretation of what is? I am not talking in a scientific sense. A molecule is a molecule but everything else, every other subtlety fall victim to interpretation. And interpretation is based on previous experiences, our education, our past, in other words our background. To be able to strip away this background and its effects on our comprehension of what is before us would really liberate us as human beings and permit the advancement of not only our personal life, but of our decisions as a community, indeed of our protection of each other and the world.
I think the first step is to be conscious that you want to be alert and aware. When you are able to strip your environment, your judgment, your ego and truly look at any situation with open eyes, without judgment, with a clear mind, you are able to see. How do we get there? Meditation helps clear the mind. Quietness of the mind is the key to observing what is and learning from it.
I see so much unhappiness around me, so much hurt, so much fear, so much discouragement! People are lost and unhappy. Only because of interpretation that leads to certain decisions that lead to certain actions, because we are not able to look at what is before us and acknowledge realistically what we observe. We are not able to see.
What you experience today, what you do, what you think, informs and transforms your previous knowledge. This new inflow of information alters who you were yesterday. This is the beauty of it. This is how you can transform yourself, your reality, your life. You can choose, at any moment, to change direction if you now have understanding that you should. Take this opportunity, take this new day to look at one thing with different eyes and discover a different reality. Take this opportunity to grow, to better yourself, to be happy.
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