What is the most important thing you've realized in life, thus far?

[Clear]

For me it is that there are no strangers or enemies, just teachers.

 

[HoldAll]

For me it is that there are no strangers or enemies, just teachers.

"No man is your enemy, no man is your friend, every man is your teacher.” (Florence Scovel)

A very zen thing to say, I've always thought.

 

[Clear]

To expound:

I believe I am the only Soul in this realm and you are all figments of my imagination. The logic and reasoning behind this is as simple as intricate which, once again, hints we're in a fractal but beyond mere navel gazing BS that proliferates a lot of occult spaces its very easy to test. Once it clicks your worldview cannot help but shift.

 

[KjEno186]

I have a decent memory of early life, mostly visual vignettes of moments. Like standing in the carport of my home while a very loud jet flew overhead when I was two years old. Or the time when I was maybe seven and watched ants take a cricket apart bit by bit in a ditch by the road. And it was around that time of life when I stood at the end of the driveway on the street where my family lived, and I had a rather new feeling. I wondered, "Why am I me?" That is to say, what caused my awareness of being to exist in this body at this time? I guess I was old enough to realize by then that my parents, older kids, and adults had been around before me since they often had things to say about events that happened before I was born. I suppose this has become a recurring question throughout my life and perhaps part of my motivation to explore the occult since religion (at least what I was raised to believe) never seemed bothered by the question of self awareness.

 

[silentlucidity]

It's OK to be wrong and Fear is, in fact, the mind-killer.

 

[DreamerRaven]

That life it's just a dream! A dream of your own. There's nothing to "learn" as such, only self realization, only rediscovering who you truly are, and then an endless adventure. As there are no answers, but only choices, i decide to only do what i love, from here to eternity. As my dreams and i, are one and the same.

"Decide to be totally relaxed. Decide to feel calm. Decide to win at the game. Decide to meet that person you've dreamed of. Decide to be rich. Decide to triumph. Because in this subjective idealistic reality, where the dream is you, what else is there to do?" - TriumphantGeorge

 

[svinno777]

Usually what we fear the most is usually the door that needs to be opened. Gotta run toward your fears. Every failure is a seed of equal or greater opportunity.

 

[Robert Ramsay]

It"s not always about you.

 

[Vandheer]

Not sure if it is the most important one, but the quote "We suffer more in mind than in our own reality" helped a lot.

 

[IllusiveOwl]

That there is no place for a name to be stuck onto anything.

 

[Morell]

Having really no time for something is a lie.

 

[AlfrunGrima]

I am a meningitis survivor, got it on my 17th. I thought that I had no future because everything what I wanted to do in life, was suddenly out of reach. Turned out that it wasn't. I was much stronger than I could imagine.

 

[nargile57]

That bad things in the past that happened to me were lessons not yet learned at that time. and that they were a learning experience. The Great Work core is about making the correct choices.

 

[FireBorn]

That demons aren’t scary. Your framework is.

Spirit isn’t what breaks me, my interpretation of it is. My scaffolding. My conditioning. My fear laced interpretations. All of that is the filter. And once I saw that, everything shifted. Everything... Shifted.

Learning this changed me in ways words can’t capture. I haven’t seen myself, or the world the same since.
And every time I stop to reflect, even now, I’m humbled by it. The gratitude I feel fills the spaces between my thoughts and pauses my breath. Not for show. Just the stillness of my fire.

In these moments, it’s like the weight of what I’ve learned silences me, and I just sit with that.

 

[Hermetika]

I've discovered that existence in all its states of consciousness and vitality is sacred. I can't always see it, acknowledge it, revere it. Sometimes I am sickened by it. Once in a while the miracle of pure ecstasy saves the day. Sacred magic is how I make peace with it all.