5 Lessons from my own life experience

We each have a series of life stories that help us explain why we are who we are.  We think, make choices, feel and interpret everything that happens within and around us.  I invite you to share your lessons about personal success. Here are 5 lessons from my life: 

1) Those people who seem to cause you the most discomfort offer your greatest lessons.

2) Anything that evokes our judgment reveals the source of our fear-based emotions.

3) Beliefs are as as you choose. (Duality--good/bad; right/wrong, doesn't really exist).

4) To accept the truth of our perception means accepting responsibility as co-creator.

5) Views at a given moment stem from insight into love, forgiveness & self-acceptance.

Comments

[Alexys Faifield]

Liara,

Great topic. Off the top of my head.

1. It's vital to have a good support team.
2. Don't sweat the small stuff.
3. Don't dwell on the past or base your success on other's success.
4. People won't love you as you love you.
5. Give gratitude for each moment.

[Liara Covert]

Alexys, constant awareness of cause and effect, and relationships between your thougths and actions, enables your view of success to evolve with you. Gratitude is a cause that yields desirable effects. Your other ideas are also wise and encouraging.

[Donna L. Faber]

OH, I love thought provoking posts ... Lessons from Donna's life experience, as follows (and some mirror yours, Liara):

1. The people who cause me the most discomfort are indeed my greatest teachers! And what difficult lessons they can be!
2. We create our existance through our beliefs, be they fear based or otherwise ... this is one of the Great Mysteries ... and when understood, truly understood, it certainly does mean accepting responsibility as co-creator. Good heavens! The two points, in my opinion, are sisters.
3. I am wary of the word SIN, but I know in my heart that to INTENTIONALLY break the heart of another is one of the universally greatest sins, i.e., there comes a time when "we know better" and are then held responsible for our behavior by a higher power.
4. Love and hate are flip sides of the same coin.
5. The opposite of love is fear.
6. This is a unique time in earth's spiritual history ... soon each of us will have to choose between what is right and what is easy (to quote Albus Dumbledore, of course) ... and concurrently spiritual evolution in mankind in the absence of fear, is rapid and forward and inevitable. To succomb to fear is emotional death and thus one becomes a walking corpse.
7. God/Goddess belongs to everyone, not just the priesthood, and resides within. We as a people have forgotten this.
8. All things are connected. ALL!

And I could go on ...

[Liara Covert]

Donna. your revelations are meaningful. Human beings may reflect on their lives and regret perceived behaviour. Yet, each experience is valuable for what it is, and for what you choose to learn from it.What feels right can indeed feel natural and easy, from the point you move to dissolve the mindset that convinces you life should be hard.