Life path 33 - What are your most important lessons
Share the things you've learned the hard way, which feel like they are deeply valuable and important lessons to you. For me, these ones have been recurring enough to know they are important:
1.) Don't ever let your ego get involved in your mission. Its easy to act from a place of personal insecurity. Like lets say you are feeling inferior to others because you keep making mistakes, or others are putting you down. Never ever let that be the driving force for your mission. As in, be real careful to make sure you are not doing anything to create a self image that others will approve of so you will feel better about yourself. The real way is to see that you feeling bad about yourself, is a symptom of a problem. The problem is you deriving your self identity from an illusory self that will always fail, and is always a disaster. Derive you're self identity from God. From the unseen. Know you're spirit. Anything else is stupidity and will always lead to ruin and disaster. It has to lead to ruin and disaster because thats the only way to reach enough despair, to willingly decide to relinquish all attachment to the limited self.
2.) Know that you'll be tested. I used to regularly slip into the illusion where I believed that if I'm doing good in the world, helping people, being a good person, then the horrors from the dark side won't attack me. WRONG!!!! So terribly wrong, what an idiotic mistake that was that I made. The dark side will attack you even harder when you're doing good, so you have to be stronger and more resilient. But theres another way to see it, its not an attack, its a test. If you are really committed to doing good, you'll do it when its hard to do it. That makes it much more worth it.
3.) Never judge anyone. Because if you judge anyone, you will find yourself in exactly the situation they are in so you can understand. Acceptance and understanding is better. At least with that, you are transmitting a good vibration with respect to all this.
4.) Know that you're limited self is weak, feeble and powerless. In knowing this, you won't depend on a paper tiger for stability. The limited ego self will fold under pressure when the pressure is heavy enough. But the inner spirit withstands any pressure because its rooted deeper than anything that outer pressures can touch. With compassion you can watch your limited self be crushed under pressure. Its ok. Thats part of spiritual awakening. Holding yourself in compassion is important to not be traumatised when things get really hardcore.