Daily OM: Life is the province of learning,
and the wisdom we acquire throughout our lives is the reward of
existence. As we traverse the winding roads that lead from birth to
death, experience is our patient teacher. We exist, bound to human
bodies as we are, to evolve, enrolled by the universe in earth school,
an informal and individualized academy of living, being, and changing.
Life's lessons can take many forms and present us with many challenges.
There are scores of mundane lessons that help us learn to navigate with
grace, poise, and tolerance in this world. And there are those
once-in-a-lifetime lessons that touch us so deeply that they change the
course of our lives. The latter can be heartrending, and we may wander
through life as unwilling students for a time. But the quality of our
lives is based almost entirely on what we derive from our experiences.
Earth school provides us with an education of the heart and the soul, as
well as the intellect. The scope of our instruction is dependent on our
ability and readiness to accept the lesson laid out before us in the
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