Are we here to learn or experience?

Have you ever heard the phrase “Life is a school”, “Earth is a school”, “We are here to learn life lessons” or something similar?

The odds are you have, particularly if you have searched the internet or books for the meaning of life.

But is Earth really a school and are we really here to learn lessons?

It’s time for a MindShift Moment.

What if we aren’t here to learn lessons (at least not in the traditional sense)?

What if we are here simply to experience physical life in human form?

While the meaning of “learning lessons” and “experience” may seem similar in that both imply gaining knowledge or understanding of a skill, the perceived expectation associated with each is different.

Where the expectation of “learning a lesson” (in school or in life) is associated with succeeding/not succeeding, the expectation of “experiencing” is simply that, experiencing.

Learning a lesson implies pass/fail, right/wrong, good/bad, whereas experiencing does not especially when we take a step back from our ego and the ego of society to understand the difference.

When we can go within and see past the ego, we can understand that the concept of succeeding/not succeeding, etc is an illusion of the ego.

When we can go within and see past that illusion, we can begin to see our time here experiencing physical life as a human is just that, experiencing life as a human. No good, no bad, just experiencing.

Now with that said, I truly believe we have a purpose for being here which includes experiencing physical life in human form, but there is more to it which I will talk about in a future post. For today, the emphasis of this post is to look at our time here from the perspective of experiencing rather than learning lessons.

How about you?

Do you believe we are here to learn or to experience as our basis?

I’d love to hear your thoughts.

‘Til next time if you liked this, please social share it. Together we can help create a global mind shift.