Live in Harmony with Reality
"The truth is that the only time we ever really "fail" at anything in our life is when we mistakenly walk away from it before we've allowed it to teach us its secret ways."
How do we normally develop a new skill? For example, how do we learn to high jump? We listen to instruction, and perhaps we watch someone else; but for the most part, we learn by doing; by trying it ourselves. Generally, with our first attempts we end up crashing into rather than clearing the bar, and when we do, there's no denying it. We can see, and feel, that we've come up short. Our collapsed condition tells us, unmistakably, that we've done something wrong. So now, we try a new angle of approaching the bar, or a new technique of leaving the ground. We do this over and over. And each time we fail to hit the mark, we see we've made a mistake and we alter our behavior, knowing that eventually our self-correction will lift us to the success we desire.
These elementary but exact laws of learning are the same when it comes to our psychological and spiritual development. Each time we feel an emotional pain, we should use that as a signal that we've made a mistake, that we've crashed and now need to find and try another new way.
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