We are all bright and shining stars.  But sometimes we get a little lost in that big night sky.  We don’t always shine quite as well as we should.  For me, it could be any number of reasons.

One of the things I think we are supposed to be doing, while we are here on earth, is to learn.  Learn, learn, learn.

Learn how to be better people.  We are, after all, just spiritual beings in a warm body.  Sometimes it is difficult to remember that.  For me at least.

My physical attributes of being human, cause me to have selfish needs.  Or selfish wants.  So I try to learn.   To be less inhibited by my own self-seeking needs.  You see…. when I get selfish… everything else gets distorted.  I guess in some aspects, all of us would like to have our own way.  But I can be pretty absorbed in it.  I’m not crazy about this part of me.  But at the same time, I get preoccupied with being the creature of comfort that I am.  I don’t like to be discontented.  Not one bit.

So.  Back to the spiritual part of us.   I believe we are all spiritual entities.  And because of that… we all have the ability for seeing things as they really are.   To learn to see around all of this.

But with me…. it is a big old process.  And it takes practice.

Perspective is a funny thing.  Don’t you think?

But, when we practice giving to others, it somehow becomes easier to live an honest life.  One where we try to see things for what they are… and not how we would like to control them to be.

I think it takes trust.  In goodness.  And that which is right.

Oh.  There’s so much more on this little brain of mine.  But the long and short of it is learning to overcome these obstacles.  They are the obstructions that keep us from finding our true, good selves. And, finding the ultimate honest, caring, spirit-filled life.

So learn as I may, and learn as I might.   …. ….. I should probably wish this on the first star I see tonight.

“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”
― Albert Einstein

“We learn from failure, not from success!”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“Study the past if you would define the future.”
― Confucius