Still haven't heard anything from IG support yet so my account is still deactivated lol.
Only read 10 pages this Wednesday night of Wooden but so many powerful quotes. "Learn is if you were going to live forever, and live as if you were going to die tomorrow." Damn. That and other sections of the book made me think about learning from a different perspective. True learning is not for the body or the mind, because those come and go. True learning is for the soul. And souls are forever. So everything we learn we keep as part of the soul, as it goes from body to body across many lifetimes. That means that my soul right now is the accumulation of all the learnings from all of my past lives. We're born with all this knowledge and wisdom. As we grow older and experience life, the more this learning uncovers itself. Hmm. So that means we're already realized, we just don't realize it yet lol. So if we are the result of all the learning from our past lives, that means each previous birth had one less life to 'learn from.' So tracing that all the way back to the first birth then, what did they 'learn from'? That's the catch 22. That's the paradox. The deeper we go and learn 'about' the world, the farther we potentially get from rediscovering our self-realized souls. That's why yogis and gurus and saints renunciate most worldly pleasures. Because they know that what they're looking for lies within. That 'first person' didn't learn from anything or about anything. They just were. To be. Not 'to do' or 'to have' or 'to want' or 'to need'. That's why it's human being. So I guess we can compare these superfluous verbs with the layers that we have 'learned' throughout all of our lives (plural). When we go deeper into ourselves, we strip away these verbs we've learned through societies and communities. We've been trained over the years, decades, centuries, millennia, that we can 'do happy things', 'have happiness', 'want happiness', or 'need happiness'. But all of that is 'learned'. What is not learned, is to 'be happy'. Happiness just was. So really, learning is just an unlearning process. So when I use these books, for example, to learn about the world, that's the secondary use. The primary use should always be learning about ourselves. But really it's about learning what we have learned, and then unlearning that. Self realization, then, is not something acquired through years of reading or learning or anything, it's a state of being. It's our truest state of being. It was humanity's first state of being. So we're all self-realized. We just need to unlearn that we're not. Well, even self-realization as a word itself implies that you're learning something. That you recognize something that you didn't know you had. But our default state is self-realization. If our default state is self-realization, then there's nothing to realize. All we have to do is just be. It's literally just a human being. Self being. State of being. To be. Simply. I'm trying to find a catchier phrase but literally 'human being' encapsulates it lol. Ingenious whoever came up with it. Truly a 'self-realized' soul. 😊
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