“Learning to live”, what meaning can an apparently simple sentence have?
Living is the most difficult thing that the individual can be able to do in the course of his existence.
It is easy to think that it is enough to abandon oneself to the flow of life and here each individual, on the physical plane, lives his life.
Unfortunately, it's never that simple; everything that everyone lives, he lives it to learn; to learn, in fact, to live; yet man is never satisfied with his life; there are few who observe the years they live, or who have lived, and do not feel assailed by remorse, regrets, feelings of guilt, sometimes even despair; yet, our children, think about it carefully: what does it mean to "learn to live"?
"Learning" means understanding something that up to that moment had not been able to understand; and this simple verb, put in that sentence, already gives a justification, a different connotation to the life of each individual.
If you need to learn it is because you have not learned yet;
if you need to learn it is because there are some things that you still obviously haven't been able to understand.
And then all of this, if you look carefully, alone provides the justification for all the mistakes you have made.
There is no evil in man, there is no understanding; everything that man does wrong in his life he does because he has to learn; he did it, because until that moment he hadn't learned yet; and this is the purpose of crossing the centuries, the purpose of living life after life, in such a way as to be able, finally, to learn to the fullest and no longer need to be faced with the need to learn more. Weather
It is for this reason that we have so often told you in the past “do not be overwhelmed by feelings of guilt for what you have done or are doing; the sense of guilt is useless, if not to make you suffer more than you are already tormenting yourself ”.
Seek, instead, if you realize that you have made a mistake, simply find the reason for your mistake and make sure that one day you yourself will not be able to say "io I knew and could, yet I wanted to continue making mistakes in the same way ”.
Learning to live means learning to understand yourself: this is the ultimate, unique and most important ethical teaching that we will ever be able to give you over time. Scifo
You, who seek the truth of yourselves and go around the world as lone travelers who cannot find a port in which to stop their soul, you who collect the words that come to you from all over the world, remember that it is not the Masters who they can teach you to live, that their words are only worth the brief moment of their emission; remember that if you really want to learn to live, you essentially have to find within yourself the interpretation of what comes to you. Do not give credit to the Masters that they do not have, but give credit to yourself for what within you you are able to do with what existence, that hard teacher of life that accompanies you, continually offers you so that you bow your eyes and you observe it by mirroring yourself in it and finding those answers that you are looking for with such great difficulty.
Learn to love yourself; and if truly, children and brothers, you manage to arrive at the moment in which you will find that love for yourselves that you owe, then everything will be easier for you, there will be no more suffering, there will no longer be despair, but there will be the strength and courage, even in the most difficult moments, even in moments when you think that everything is over and impossible to remedy, even in those moments you will find the right way to get that ultimate teaching that can make the book of your life not only full of incomprehensible writing, but of writing in huge letters that will show you that finally you, truly, have learned to live, you have learned yourselves. Baba
The moment the greatest pain seems to make your life unbearable,
when the one you love most will abandon you,
the moment everything you believed in will seem like a meaningless idea,
the moment you feel that all the values for which you have fought, lived, were basically only small and miserable things,
only in that moment, our children, will you finally have learned to live.
Peace to you. Vito
Speaking of masters. Today, when I was returning home from school, where I listened for the second time to Don Luigi Verdi, who had come to talk to the boys and whom I had already heard, I asked myself: "What is left, when the emotions that I felt while listening have his words passed away? " He surely touched some strings in me as in others and made them vibrate. But can I say that I am different from before by virtue of those words? Or did those words simply resonate what was already in me by virtue of my experiences? No teacher can make you change ...
I agree. To facilitate the hatching of chicken eggs or other birds, water is sprayed to moisten the shell when the chick has begun to pierce it. This is the role of the teacher ...
Never as in this tiring moment I understand the words of the post. I thank my children, because they are the teachers who are teaching me how to go from ego to love.
thank you!
Big words! Those of Scifo in particular made me rethink various events in my life from which I had to learn the same teaching ... the red thread of this existence ... thanks!
Clear and profoundly true, we are the best Masters of ourselves
I pray but I take it in another nuance, that is the intuition that life is also a dance without purpose; something that makes sense in itself, not just aimed at understanding.
In Vito's pallets there is a profound truth that I feel and yet a certain fear appears….
Vito's words ring out. Learning to live is learning surrender, to enter the contemplative dimension.
Learning to live… ..pleasantly I realized that life is no longer a fatigue, on the contrary every morning I return to the amazement that the day will grant me by welcoming it as a gift.
thank you
Flow in life, I often hear this phrase and it moves me .... it would be nice yes.
But we are here to learn and learning requires presence, attention, commitment, a lot of energy, taking positions, discernment ... ... and much more
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“Learning to live”. Not an easy thing, as Moti says. If I think about what he supported and still supports me in the great moments of difficulty, it is a basic trust, which has probably always accompanied me, even when I had not yet acquired certain awareness. I think Samuel is right when he says "something that makes sense in itself, not just aimed at understanding." Or perhaps it is better to say that it does not make sense only for each of our individual individualities, but embraces something much larger. So it is likely that when you are no longer focused on yourself, emotions become more lukewarm to make room for gratitude and wonder. To date it seems to me that I can only guess what the horizon is, the path of understanding is still long.
Each of these comments is a point of reflection, like the post that generated them ..