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November 2009 
What do you think you're supposed to learn in this lifetime?
Posted on Feb 10th, 2009
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Winnie
Winnie
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for February 10, 2009:
I definitely have to learn to take the bad with the good, in other words balance in life.
Presently I cannot understand that my intentions seems good, but I constantly have to put up with bad situations or reactions.
Presently I cannot understand that my intentions seems good, but I constantly have to put up with bad situations or reactions.
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this is a philosophy from the Abraham-Hicks group (and from William Shakespeare): nothing is good or bad, but thinking makes it so. You are in a place where lots and lots of “bad” is happening. What “good” do you imagine is trying to emerge from the bad? What is trying to change? barbara
Barbara, I still do not understand. Say for instance, you are helping a stranger and he robs you of your cash, mobile phone etc. What “good” is trying to emerge from this situation? Not to help any stranger anymore?
Winnie – it could be anything you learn; it could be that yes, you lost your cash, your phone, but you kept your life. And you learn that you can live without your cash and your phone and you learn to value your life more. Or, as a larger lesson for society, “what is causing that person to want to rob you? How can we (as a society) work to eliminate the need for robbing? How can we provide so that no one feels lack?” Even when a life is lost, we all must look at what happened, and say “What can we learn from this? What good can come from such a terrible thing?” In the Tao, Lao Tsu says “good fortune is what bad hides in; bad fortune has good hiding within it.” It is a tough concept to wrap your mind (and heart) around and I am only just learning. But I believe as we reach for the “good” in everything, the “good” will emerge because in the soul of everyone is the desire to feel good (and that person who steals from you is trying in their own bent way to make themselves feel good - we just need to find a more constructive and beneficial way for that person to feel good that benefits everyone). barbara
I follow what you are saying, thank you Barbara, but I will have to meditate on that concept. It sounds like a matter of hide and seek throughout life, and it sounds tiresome.