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MISTAKES: PART OF THE PERFECTING PROCESS &
Necessary to growth. Expect them, forgive them, be grateful for them, learn and move on...

Your greatest gift is the freedom of choice.  No matter who you are, where you are; you can choose at any time to have a different attitude, think differently, eventually do differently and bring into manifestation the results of your choices.  This is not taken away when you die because that would mean you no longer have freedom of choice.  It's a "God-given" gift and, no matter your definition of God, God is always greater, and more loving than you think.  A loving parent wouldn't take away his/her child's freedom to choose -- God loves you much more than that and wants to see you become all that you can be (kind of like the army but w/o the violence or haircuts).  

The soul is the repository for growth as you cycle round and round, just like nature.  And, like nature, you're always evolving, just on an individual basis.  You've likely felt at one time or another a greatness within, and you've been endowed with the capacity for self-determination, but, it is within the paramaters of "fate," meaning, that you MUST evolve -- this is what you were designed to do, therefore, the sooner you get to it, the happier you'll be.  Everything in life is not secondary to your spiritual growth, but is FOR your spiritual growth, solely (pardon the pun, please).  We cannot make something important that is not, but, when we try to, this is where discontent is born.

You are forever, and will forever be growing (unless you so radically screw up that you decide to opt out -- again, freedom of choice).  Knowing this you would think, well, I can just take my time, and who cares, right?  Actually, when we know that we are the major factor in our own destiny, we would want to improve it right away for, a moment thrown away is lost, and though we can choose to start again, our regrets are usually what we DON'T do.   The universal phrase of wisdom born of experience and ever elusive to the bravado of youth is, "If I knew then, what I know now I would have..."  Have you smartened up, yet?  Great.  Then get cracking. 

Soul and personality are not the same.  Personality is another tool we use for growth.  It is the merging of our soul's understanding with the universal Spirit  (that greater God spoken of earlier) that brings wholeness, no matter how fleeting.  That "white light," seen and reported of upon death, is the true reality.  (Think of Steve Jobs's last words: "Oh, wow. Oh, wow. Oh, wow."  It's doubtful any man-made creation could ever elicit a response like that from this notorious perfectionist.)  How sad that we tend to exist only in the vapors of the vast and rich unseen world, which is also our grounding force and the existence within that knows all is well with the world, though we may not believe it.  

Visit that reality more often and you will know it is so.  You will have peace and you will be fulfilling your soul's purpose which is 2-fold:  1.)  To Grow and master life, and 2.)  To contribute to humanity in your own unique and special way.  

Mostly we must learn to forgive and trust.  How we handle mistakes, either from ourselves or others is a good indication of how far along we are, and how much further we have to progress.  Wanna grow?  You must learn to let go, with love.  

Mistakes are not good or bad, they are part of the process of mastering some aspect of who you are and life itself.  If you were to learn a new piano piece and played a chord incorrectly, you would have to take the time to correct it.  Perhaps you would memorize the chord, play it again and again until ingrained into muscle memory, then do it correctly automatically from the repetition.  Even better is when we understand why that particular chord is right and then it becomes a part of our thinking -- we've added to our flexible working knowledge through deeper comprehension -- and then there's no need for memorization.  We just get it and can apply it when needed.  Next.