On Learning and Changing

Change is the end result of all true learning.
-Leo Buscaglia


According to this American writer, speaker and professor of Special Education...if we want change we do so through learning.

Life Is full of lessons from which we can learn...some of them not so fun!  Each time we encounter a struggle or heart break we can curl up and succumb to it or we can learn from it and move forward.  We will at some point recognize we want things to be better than what they are.  We want change ...so we learn and move on.

In this address Buscaglia also says that:

 

Change involves three things:

First a dissatisfaction with self- a felt void or need;

second, a decision to change to fill the void or need;

and third, a conscious dedication to the process

of growth and change-

the willful act of making the change, doing something.

 

 

 

What are we to Learn?

 

I would guess that we are here to learn two things:  Who we are and  who we are not. When we experience the dissatisfaction with self- this self ego has created- we may experience the emptiness it offers.  Identification with the ego leaves us with void and need. We may question, "Is there more than this?" We begin to learn who we are not.

 

The Process of Learning Who We are not...

 

That question will set us off on a journey of learning and we will change and grow.  This process will be gradual for most of us; quick and explosive for others.

 

The change will involve dropping the trappings of the false self and finding and embracing the real offerings of the true Self. It is not an easy change because ego doesn't make it easy.  It is hard to let go of the things we defined ourselves by in a world that honors and celebrates those things.

 

A Conscious Dedication

 

What we need to see us through is a "conscious dedication" to the process. All learning requires practice, practice, practice; mistakes and learning from them. If you are anything like me you will stumble and err your way through this learning to wake up process.  The trick is to stay committed...knowing who awaits on the other side of your learning...who you really are.

 

The Reward is Learning who you really are

 

All the learning, all the practicing will take us to who we really are.  It will feel like drastic change as we go through it but what we may realize when it happens is that...it was not change after all...but simply a returning to who we have always been.

 

 

All is well in my world!

 

 

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