Hello Seekers
We have all heard the saying, ‘sadder but wiser’. But when they tiny voices comes calling you can either ignore or learn from it.
So after a day or a month or a year, you say;
How could I have done that unwise thing, that ridiculous, the petty, that foolhardy, that mean, that vicious, that dishonest, that ignorant thing.
How could I have fooled myself, or not seen that coming, or how could I have ignored red flags?
And the new improved wiser self, stands in the present moment of time, looking back on the less wise you, of a day, a month or a year ago, and there you are shaking your head, because now you see what you did not see then.
You became aware of bad choices and the consequences.
That awareness, means that you had to experience whatever the situation was be it tiny or large, in order to be the new improved wiser you.
The proof is in the regret you feel.
If you were not shaking your head in total disbelief, of such an error of judgement, you would not be the new improved wiser you. If there was no acknowledgement of any lack of wisdom then there was no learning. If that thing you did is now seen as unloving and reckless, instead of daring and fun, you have learned wisdom.
Those who don’t learn through experience, blunder through life, never getting wiser, repeating the same unwise thought patterns and actions, like children who waste their time and have to repeat grades in school, they may end up leaving the world no wiser than when they entered it.
Someone who keeps repeating mistakes keeps getting the same opportunities presented to them, until at some point finally a light goes on in the mind, and they feel regret and they start to see consequences.
So if you regret a decision, then mark that page learned in your lesson plan, because you won’t be repeating that mistake again. Regret has a sting like a bee so that you never forget. It is an unpleasant sensation.
This is a most unruly classroom earth school, with bullies and cliques and cheaters and liars, who seem to skate through life causing havoc in their wake and never caring about the consequences to others. What is not seen by human eyes, is that the universe keeps sending the same type of lesson, over and over, in different forms until it is learned. A soul keeps entering body after body, life after life, and can never graduate into the harmonious middle schools that exist for those who have felt regret and learned wisdom. It is wisdom to love yourself. It is wisdom to love others as yourself, it is wisdom to respect and love the earth, it is wisdom to see consequences of the actions of the unwise and uncaring.
One thing about earth school is you can’t cheat the teacher, because the teacher lives within every student, and examines all souls and will not accept bribes.
A person can certainly avoid learning but consequences are like boomerangs and the will return to the sender.
When a human chooses consciously to love and embrace life, they will find that have less and less lessons the more they consciously choose to treat others as they wish to be treated. This one action stops the process, which has been set up to instruct humanity that they are indeed one related family. At the point of learning this, the lessons decrease and regrets are lessened because wisdom has replaced folly.
Those who bribe and cheat their way through life will someday look back on the wasted time and hang their heads and say what could I have been thinking?
This may happen after a day, a month, a year, or ten thousand years, time is infinite in the universe and Intelligent Infinity is infinitely patient.
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Regrets and Earth School
Started by Tree Hugger, Apr 01 2005 09:07 PM
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