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Discussion of fate and Liz’s “earth school model” as a useful exercise during dark times, as the limiting anguished ‘why me?’ Mindset //

this is literally a codependent mindset. Trying to view others as beings sent to give us lessons is in the same vein of her saying she wanted to be saved by lover and wanted a lover to come give her everything she was missing

2/2 everyone we label as difficult or an obstacle or even dysfunctional, is in fact a deliberately designed construct meant to awaken us to our true natures? A divine crow bar, you could say, that is sent by the cosmos to knock down the doors of our ignorance, demolish our illusions, & give us the opportunity to move past our fears, find our innate courage, propagate wisdom, & help us remember that we are of God.”

1/2 “There was something our souls could not have learned any other way except through this precise curriculum. Or, as Mark Twain put it, ‘a man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.’ What if everything in earth’s school is working exactly the way it’s supposed to be working, in other words, by teaching us things we can learn in no other way. What if everything or -