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Learning from the Experience of Others…

Posted By: Randy GageJune 7, 2018

So Henry Miller had a fascinating view of himself and humanity.  Check this out:

“I didn’t dare to think of anything then except the ‘facts.’ To get beneath the facts I would have had to be an artist, and one doesn’t become an artist overnight. First you have to be crushed, to have your conflicting points of view annihilated. You have to be wiped out as a human being in order to be born again an individual. You have to be carbonized and mineralized in order to work upwards from the last common denominator of the self. You have to get beyond pity in order to feel from the very roots of your being.”

In my case, I didn’t have to be carbonized and mineralized, but pretty damn close to that.

I had to personally make almost all the mistakes, just to verify they actually were mistakes.  At 15, I had to go to jail for armed robbery, before I considered the possibility of a better life plan.  At 30, I had to have my business seized by the tax authorities before I decided to learn better management skills.  I had to blow up relationship after relationship, before I was willing to do the necessary work to maintain healthy ones.  (Work which was on me, not them.)

There are so many timeless and universal principles that when followed, allow us to live a lives of prosperity and abundance.  Do you learn from them, and give yourself a head start towards enlightenment?

Or are you foolish and headstrong as I was, determined to make every mistake yourself?

-RG

2 comments on “Learning from the Experience of Others…”

  1. I think we all have to learn for ourselves. We each have a different mindset which is created from an unconscious perception and interpretation we have made which seems to give our lives structure. I may need to experience what is thought of as good and bad in order to grow in awareness. Your mistakes do not give me this awareness at the deep rooted level I may need for self realisation. Henry Miller was so, so spot on - he had been there. He had had a second birth which created him as an Individuated Being. Not an indiviual as we know it in our normal 3 reality. He had reached the awareness of Being on the soul level and saw though our 3D reality and so could not be totally ensnared in it. Whatever we try to avoid will always meet us further down the line.

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  • 2 comments on “Learning from the Experience of Others…”

    1. I think we all have to learn for ourselves. We each have a different mindset which is created from an unconscious perception and interpretation we have made which seems to give our lives structure. I may need to experience what is thought of as good and bad in order to grow in awareness. Your mistakes do not give me this awareness at the deep rooted level I may need for self realisation. Henry Miller was so, so spot on - he had been there. He had had a second birth which created him as an Individuated Being. Not an indiviual as we know it in our normal 3 reality. He had reached the awareness of Being on the soul level and saw though our 3D reality and so could not be totally ensnared in it. Whatever we try to avoid will always meet us further down the line.

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