Maturation During Growth

[alyra]

I was thinking this morning about growing up and how if you're feeling like you belong with a certain group even after you've matured age-wise past that group, that that should be a sign that you're missing something that is usually found during natural maturation. etc. not super important in and of itself but -

 

 

then I realized, can't the same thing be true of any thing that we learn from? say we claim that some movie, or book, or role model from the past, is always teaching us new things. for a certain extent sure you'll keep learning from them each time you revisit them and that's a great thing - but in the long run of it, you think and realize. if you always are learning from it, then you've never matured beyond that point! To believe that something is eternally going to be what you learn from - that is not the reality of it. 

 

In the scope of a human life maybe sure, we die. but, this is not to speak of the power we have to grow from example, from the experience of others in addition to our own experience. So it's certainly plausible that some people learn from this text/etc that we've put on a pinnacle - at such a rate that they'll learn all the things we've yet to learn from it faster than we've stumbled upon the small percentage we've found so far! We could be that person! 

 

This isn't to claim that it's bad to always learn from a text. if we're learning from it, we should keep learning from it. but sometimes our belief that the text will always teach us - will hold us back from seeing the leap we're missing. Because once we've reached a certain point of learning from a text, the only purpose in holding onto it is either to externalize memory, or to advise a good text to others. We should find a new text/etc to inspire us. 

 

 

ps. another reason to hold onto a text/etc we've surpassed, is to hold onto the possibility that something you haven't learned yet will unlock new secrets hidden in that lodestar. 

 

[S33K3R]

I see what you mean. Comparing the self to others is often a measuring tool to determine progress and status. This is actually a form of ego trying to establish hierarchy. Allowing the ego to think about comparing to others can lead to spiritual decline through battling others about your "knowledge" and "status". 

Everything has seasons of great growth and silent death. When you pick up something that gives you great growth it can be related to the earth and its spring/summer time. Then when the growth has waned it takes time for our being to fully absorb what has entered and changed us. So this can be related to the fall/winter time. These cycles are natural, when you get stir crazy needing to learn something new you have entered a spiritual spring. When you get depressed because that high of learning something new has gone, you have realized you are in the spiritual winter. Once you stop fearing these cycles you will allow them to pass with the joy of the observer. Just watching the seasons pass  We all have our cycles, no need to control, define or fight them.