Being human is in our nature

When we were born, we were blank slates. Then we started to receive input from our surroundings. Those inputs were saved in our memories and used as the reference from which to determine how we acted. 

We learned by observing how the people around us interacted with each other. We learned from how people acted towards us. We learned how the things we did caused people to do things. We learned how to do things to get what we wanted.

The things that happen in our lives are not accidental. They are the natural flow of karma of the bodies that we have chosen to be born into. We chose the lifestream we are in because, in our spirit state, we could see that the karmic flow of this body will offer us the challenges we need to resolve the longings that we still carry. But once we enter the body, we no longer have access to the knowledge of our spirit state. We become blank slates and have to learn from our own experiences.

We all have an inner guide whispering to us and telling us what to do. That inner guide is our spirit state - our True Self. But as we grow from a baby into a child and understand in our newly developing minds that we are separate bodies from those other people around us, the third layer of our minds - the ego - begins to form. That ego then becomes the silent whisper in our minds and our True Self recedes into the background.

If we have evolved sufficiently in our previous lives and are sufficiently cleared of karmic clutter, then we will choose new lifestreams where we will encounter influences which guide us towards spiritual knowledge and progressively take us higher. If you have been drawn to learning about spirituality, that's because you have earned that privilege. If you are reading this blog, then you have earned the opportunity from your actions in your previous lives.

Those who have earned the privilege of gaining spiritual learning will begin to understand that the purpose of being born in a human body is to learn to become human. We need to realise that our humanity is entirely determined by how we behave towards others. We should not be triggered by how others behave. All of our responses have to be the result of our reasoning rather than our emotional reaction.

When we realise that being human is in our nature, then we can become truly human.

When we become able to love unconditionally, then the divine nature of our True Self can manifest.

Then we no longer need to take on a new body to learn more. We become free of the cycle of Karma.

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