Making sure you learn the lesson

QUESTION: Masters, why do I keep slipping back from the feeling of inner peace and altruistic love? And why do the obstacles keep me from sharing the life with the man I am strongly connected with? How do these two things walk hand in hand? ~Hannele, Finland

ANSWER: All souls come to Earth to learn specific lessons that they have pre-chosen to endure, and from which they intend to learn about themselves and their abilities. As with any other endeavor they undertake, a single event does not make them experts or possibly even very proficient at the task.

For this reason, a lesson such as finding and connecting to your inner peace, or essential unconditional love, has to be learned through many of life’s various challenges. Thus you will have it presented to yourself in numerous different scenarios and situations. It may seem as though you are losing the ability to be in that energy, but you are merely blocking it from view so that you take the time and effort to reconnect, and come to always be able to sense where it is located, even if life hides it behind adversity.

Altruistic love is not an individual’s life lesson. It is a choice one makes to share one’s energy with others, generally to make oneself feel good. This is a characteristic that occurs only within the duality of planet Earth, where the ego makes judgments about everything.

To share something with another, such as the man you mention, he has to want to share with you. You will never be able to force him to think or act the way you wish he would. The obstacles you perceive are personal beliefs that are interpreted through judgment. Step back, don’t judge, send unconditional love, and observe the results.

The connection with your man is something you chose in order to learn about evaluating how your life lessons may be the same as, or different from, those of a lover. You draw to yourself all the experiences that will allow you to understand what you wished to learn.