Where the process of learning from others sets in, voilá, you will have stumbled upon one of the major purposes and meanings of life.
The meaning behind the differences that exist between people is part of the meaning of life: to behold the difference of the other and learn from it, absorb it, register it, test it, prove it, and if it turns out to be any good, perhaps assimilate it, or at least accept and tolerate it.
The "beginner's mind..." - the prerequisite for all learning. The more you know, the more you know you don't know. If people only had a clue how little they know. If you can face each new day with the innocent ignorance of a child, a hunger
to learn, a desire to still that lack of knowledge, then you're able to learn a lot faster than those who think they already know everything and have to be re-educated first. There's so much you all have to un-learn!
Forget what you think you know, and realize how little you really know, and how much there is yet to learn! How can you learn when you think you already know it all?
If you realize you've all got so much to learn together and from each other and with each other, then it's not one person acting as the "master" over the others, but each one just humbly shares what they're learning as you go...
Let Me teach you! As you continue learning from Me, absorbing the words from My mouth, you will at last truly learn.
If you trust that what I teach you is good and you just take what I give you at a time, you will see that it will all make perfect sense eventually, and take you to a happiness and enlightenment you would not have deemed possible before.
Like Adam, you walk through this savage garden, surrounded by all the animals, some of which are so much bigger and taller and stronger than you, equipped with greater survival skills, but you don't find your mate among them. But suddenly you wake up one day and find next to you one just like you to accompany you through this life's journey, to love and be loved by, to share with and learn with and from, as well as to teach, or simply to sit at My feet together and learn from Me.
Everyday is a little bit like the first day, when understanding and clearly seeing and hearing first began... It's not as if everything you learned previously is all there, right away, but you have to activate that knowledge, that conscience, re-establish your tie of love and trust with Me...
Life isn't going to get boring, because there is yet so much to learn, so much further to go...
Although you have found the truth, your life isn't perfect yet, and it's not as if you'll never have to learn another thing from someone else.
It's give and take. You teach and you learn, even from people who may seem to have much less to give than what you've got. If you're humble enough to be in a receiving and learning position in relation to anyone you come across, you'll find life in general a much greater success, when you come to the end of the road, than if you go through it constantly pushing your own thing on others.
Everybody wants to be popular with the younger generation, but it's only those who don't care too much about popularity who are going to be able to teach them anything.
The most dangerous threat to genuine learning is the illusion that you're right, and that there's nothing to change about your views & attitudes.
You cannot look at the provocation, you must look at the lesson behind it. Will you fall for that provocation right in front of your nose, or will you be wise and look beyond, at the lesson and the purpose in it?
If you see it as a lesson and a test, it's much easier not to fall for it. Sometimes the gist of the lesson lies in ignoring situations that would provoke you to become aggressive.
Just look at Me, the Teacher beyond the immediate challenge of the situation.
If you think there's nothing left for you to learn, then you won't have very much to teach others.
Losses and gains are only numbers and statistics, and they may have their place of importance to some extent. But what's really valuable to Me is the lessons and the experiences they bear, like some deep imprint of life's wisdom on your soul, that gives your life the real beauty and value.
Loss is gain if you look at it trough My eyes: it will be the gain of new opportunities, greater trust and confidence in Me, the lasting Factor in your life; greater dependence on Me, greater wisdom, greater treasures of experiences and lessons learned; the true values of life.
What really matters is not your physical position, but your place at My feet, where you can learn from Me and from those prophets which were before you that which is essential to give and pass on to those who will be ready to receive you and your message and whatever you will have to give, especially when the troubles which are to come and must come will come.
By taking the humble seat and refusing to put yourself above anyone, but respecting their way of dealing with things, you can sometimes learn a lot more, and wind up with a few surprises here and there.
If you walk through life with the humble attitude that you can learn something from anyone, and anything they've got to say, from any child or person, you'll find you'll develop a lot more patience with your fellowmen.
Focus (on) what you can do for others in order to help them to move along and make headway in the school of life or just make it through today's battles.
Whatever lesson I try to teach you always brings home the point better when there's a real life experience attached with it.
Show Me what you've learned and picked up from Me! Show Me who is the greatest among you and can be the servant of all!
If there is a school of life, and I’m its Teacher, what the Devil came up with in order to distract people from the school and the meaning of life, was his counterfeit “school,” the compulsory public school system.
He’s trying to make sure that people – and young people in particular – won’t get the chance to tune in to the real school of life, by keeping them busily stuffing their heads with the counterfeit knowledge concocted in his public school system.
The school system simply won’t “click” with a lot of people, who, like you did, instinctively feel that it’s not doing them any good, not teaching them anything truly valuable.
Tell them about the cool alternative! Tell them about the school of life! Tell them about Me, the Master Teacher, Who can really teach them stuff that’s worthwhile, 100% relevant to real life.
If the school system is the Enemy’s counterpart to My real school of life, then you have to cope with the fact that every
hour your child is spending in school, she’s being soaked with something other than what I would teach her, if she were exclusively under My tutorship.
Life is constructed in such a way that it’s bound to happen that you slip and fall and mistakes, so that precious lessons can be learned from it. But it’s pretty important that you do learn the lessons, and not just keep falling into the same trap and repeating the same old mistakes over and over again.
I can show and teach you a lot of things, as soon as you know what it is you want and need to learn… or that there’s a need for you to learn at all!
You can either drift through life passively, or you can have goals before you that you want to reach, things you want to learn and accomplish, fruits to take with you along your journey Home.
Do you still have a vacuum and a hunger to acquire more of what I’ve got to share with you? Or are you satisfied, like those who figure there is so much they know already, there couldn’t possibly be anything they might be able to learn from anyone else?
The best teachers are those who remain perpetual students. They stay open. They don’t close up. There’s a spirit of give and take, not just an outpouring from a stagnant reservoir that doesn’t allow any fresh water in!
Once you’ve learned a new lesson from Me in theory, you’ve got to look around for opportunities to put it into action, how to apply it in real life…
Take it from the dormant domain of your thoughts and your interior into the lucid and awake realm of your actions, the things you actually do.
Learning to communicate with Me is going to be so extremely vital and expedient for your survival in the near future, that I can’t let up on you and let you enjoy a carefree life. The lesson has got to be learned, there’s no way around it!
I need to use extreme measures to teach you this ultimate and supreme lesson. Only this way you’re going to be able to do well in all the other lessons as well. You can only learn how to love others properly if you first love Me by tuning into Me sufficiently for Me to show you how to love them!
The ultimate lesson is to have Me in the first place in your life.
When you stay tuned to My Spirit and you stay on My wavelength, life will inevitably reveal itself to you as an ongoing series of lessons and new confirmations and reminders of those lessons in order to make sure that you really learn them, too.
I’m a Teacher Who dedicates extra time and special attention to each of My students, tuning in to their personal progress, and always making an effort to give them just what they need.
Of course, you must stay tuned, keep paying attention to what I’m trying to tell, show and teach you.
I present My students with a real life problem, and I challenge them to find a solution in teamwork with Me and their class mates, and you’ve come up with some wonderful stuff which might potentially help others in similar future situations.
You can definitely tell you’re making progress when the lessons you’ve learned are improving your life-style, your sample, your witness and testimony, and your fruitfulness for Me.
My school of life is certainly relevant to your daily life, and it isn’t just all theory or useless facts you won’t ever need in real life, which is one of the great laments about the current public school system.
My curriculum is actually based on real life, and Real Life is one of My favorite subjects I like to teach on!
I teach you the maths as you need it, and the arithmetic as you go, and the writing skills as you employ them.
Learning isn’t just about acquiring knowledge. It’s living the experience you’re growing through, feeling it, absorbing it and letting it transform you.
Sometimes it doesn’t feel like you’re gaining or winning anything new at all, but rather as if you’re losing something, and it’s true: you’ve got to get rid of some excess weight that will just hinder your growth and slow your progress down. Part of learning is to discern what things to hold on to and what things to let go, and before the end of the day I hope you’ll have found out that the amount of things to let go far exceeds the amount of those you should hang on to.
One of the major factors in all that you’re learning is to trust in My doing, more than your own. I will always have to do the major part in order for anything to work, and if I’m not in it, then it usually won’t happen.
There’s lots more to learn and more room for improvement. The worst thing to do is to assume the position of one who thinks he has arrived. That’s the moment you stop growing and making progress and thus start to backslide.
As long as you’re learning, receiving new things from Me and feel as if there are lots of new things for you to find out and yet for you to accomplish, and you keep an “empty” attitude of one who has yet much more to learn than what he already knows, there’s hope.
For some reason I must have brought this person into your life, and that means that you’re going to learn some essential lessons from your interaction with them.
It’s a pretty lonely job, being Father to so many distracted children, off on Pleasure Island, having fun and letting the Devil turn them into jack-asses…
That’s why it’s of utter importance to Me that there are at least some who are aware of the Enemy’s scheme and won’t allow themselves to fall for it, but make others aware of what’s going on, too…
I want them to attend the school of life and pay attention to what I’m trying to teach them. But the Devil whisks them all off to Pleasure Island, keeping them busy, busy, busy with his amusements, away from thinking – or putting them through his fake imitation school, where they pretend to teach them things and fill their heads with enough clutter so that there won’t possibly be any space left for what’s essential.
Follow Me, the Great Teacher, step by step, to find out what I’m trying to teach you out of every single circumstance and situation of your life, especially the unpleasant ones.
Every day is a fresh learning experience.
The knowledge I hand out to you comes in daily portions, and each day is like a learning unit or a “class.” That’s why journals are extremely helpful in retrieving the things you learn on a daily basis, and one day you will be able to recall and
summon a particular lesson from any particular day or experience you’ve had in life.
If you teach others from mistakes you made, that shows them just how human you are, and how much just like them, and that you’re not some super special case, endowed with extraordinary gifts from on high, but that you’ve learned by trial and error, basically the same way they have.
You’ve come to conclusions, and human conclusions are in some ways more helpful in teaching others than divine revelations.
It’s the difference between one who teaches what he has learned from books and one who teaches what he has learned from experience. You’ve been there, and you can tell of the pitfalls to avoid, and of the things to watch out for.
It doesn’t always seem as though there were an awful lot of people even interested in gleaning such deep lessons out of life, but you’ve got to trust that even if there’s only going to be one, it will have been worth it.
Learning to take each other where you’re at is part of this school of life, and that also includes learning to take yourself where you’re at, assessing where you stand, coping with it, and doing your fellowmen the favor of loving and accepting them just like you’re inevitably going to have to do it with yourself, if you want to live a happy life.
So, you’re having to deal with a set of unpleasant circumstances. What are they trying to teach you?
You cannot play hooky in the school of life.
There are a lot of mistakes made that people could learn from, a lot of lessons to be learned out of life, and out of history, but that’s not what they’re interested in or concerned about. They’re not concerned about avoiding the same mistakes over and over again.
That’s why people never learn anything from history; not their own, and much less anyone else’s: they’re not interested.
All they care about is what’s there to consume right here and now, to hell with any potential repercussions and consequences.
I’m teaching you personally through the school of life and your experiences, all that you have to go through, your trials and lessons… these are all ways in which I communicate and interact with you.
They complete another piece in the puzzle of the deeper meaning of everything.
If you honestly and humbly admit that you still have lots to learn, you’ll get further than by the method of appointing yourself to the only position of the teacher, and everyone else as the students.
See yourselves as “fellow-students,” each in a position of give and take, and with everyone involved able to both teach and learn something.
The children of disobedience (See Eph.2:2) will be sad history, available for all future generations, as a painful lesson to learn from.
Folks can tend to become impatient with Me and say, “When will You finally put an end to all this?” But it’s supposed to be a lesson for all of eternity, so we’ve got to make it have an impact, and not just some short little lesson that people are going to be prone to forget.
Let’s say, We’re trying to make this Lesson unforgettable.
I’m a lover of details. I’m the Great Teacher, and I love it when My pupils do their homework and thoroughly.
Experience will be their best teacher, even as it has been yours.
After all, isn’t that what life is all about, and what you really learn the gist of life’s lessons from? Not from lectures or from books, sermons or talks, but from experience. That is the language that really writes those lessons of life deep into your heart.
I never run out of things to teach you. Compared to all that is yet to learn, you haven’t even begun, so I certainly wouldn’t
I never run out of things to teach you. Compared to all that is yet to learn, you haven’t even begun, so I certainly wouldn’t