When you lose the fear of failure, you are set free.

This freedom may happen early; it may take you many years.
Or you may glimpse it in the last breath you take.
The choice of when is up to you.
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But freedom finds us all, at one point or another.

So that anything you have suffered up until that point simply vanishes into true understanding.

When we begin to understand our selves as the Divine beings we really are, all suffering is understood in a new way.

We understand suffering as experiences.
We let go of fear.
And we begin to simply attend to the process at hand of living: of growing, expanding, understanding, deepening.

Thus: don’t think of failure as an end, a block, a tragedy.
Consider failure as a step of growing.
Consider failure as the way you will eventually become free.

Fail, fail, fail… fail again!

Each time look up and see “I am still here.”
Each time look up and see “I am still worthy.”
Each time look up and see “I am still soul.”

Continue to fail… a million times!
But don’t stay in the cocoon.

It’s musty in there. Too warm, too wrapped up. You’re dead in there, a shroud.
Break open into this life, and fail.

This is the path to freedom.

Failure is growing.

Soul growth always happens when you risk to try something new, or to experience something new.

It is true: many times, when you try a new thing, you fail at it.

You don’t grasp the golden ring.
You lose the girl or guy.
You’re a minute too late.
​Nobody shows up at your event.

This is to be celebrated!

​Not for the failure, which is simply success not having happened yet.

But because you tried something new, you extended yourself and expanded yourself to a new vision of yourself.

You moved yourself toward your soul’s highest possibility in this lifetime.

This is where all growth happens: in the willingness to risk, and the willingness to try, and the willingness to engage.

You might think of a cocoon: how we can choose to stay shrouded, under wraps, hiding, numbed, asleep.

Or instead, how we might emerge from our cocoon: showing up, being here, being absolutely humble to the fact that we may try and we may or may not succeed.

The trying is what matters.
The engaging is what is important.
The attention is where your soul grows.

And when you have faced failure once, twice, a thousand times in your life, something else wonderful will eventually happen: you will lose your fear.

You will lose your fear, and that is perhaps not just half the battle, but the whole battle for most of us in this lifetime.

No fear of failure.
No fear of loss.
No fear of shame.
No fear of death.

Whatever you believe is not correct

There are too many ways of understanding every situation for there to be only one answer.
 
There is no right. 
There is no wrong. 
There is only perception and each of you perceives differently. 
 
Yes, there is dark. 
Yes, there light. 
Your understanding allows you to see what you see. 
 
Wrong depends on your level of understanding. 
Right depends on your level of understanding. 
Dark depends on your level of understanding. 
Light depends on your level of understanding. 
 
It can be difficult for the mind/ego/personality to accept this. 
 
We say: Set your mind/ego/personality aside. You can think, consider, determine, decide, intellectualize, moralize without the constraints of your particular society, place, custom, culture, what you were taught, what you were told. 
 
Without the constraints. 

This is why diversity of viewpoint is so important, in this new world. 
You each have a piece of the equation. 
You each have a piece of the puzzle. 

Let yourself become free. 
Let your mind/ego/personality become a distant refrain, not the clanging of the battle drums. 
 
Together, you and You will find answers that will take you to the next level. 
 
If you are able to offer this generosity to each other, this generosity of stepping back from the clamor of mind/ego/personality, without begrudging views, without holding views, in simple curiosity as to what the other has experienced and what the other has learned, this is where your own learning will expand the fastest. 
 
Remember, there is no other. 
There is only One. 
You are part of You. 
You as soul are part of collective soul. 
 
When you consider that you are part of; not merely interconnected, not merely inhabiting same earth, sharing same air, using same water—even this is a paradigm shift for many of you—when you consider that you are part of, that you merge with everything and everything merges with you, and that you merge not only in body but in spirit—this is where you begin to understand reality. 
 
So that in merging, in understanding your individual personality is just a small aspect of ego compared to the big soul that is you and You, you begin to get a sense of all views. 
 
All views, all opinions, all ways of living and understanding are contained and managed in the wisdom of collective soul. Collective soul holds all views, and in the process of expansion, begins to lift dark to light. 

Everything rises to the highest level available. 
In collective soul, this is magnificent.
 
There is a place for darkness, in the beginning. 
Darkness is what you come through. 
All the pain, all the suffering, all the anger, all the fear. 
This is what must be experienced before it can be released.  

In this way, all base, dark, painful and suffering are part of collective soul, as are all light, visionary and expanded views held in collective soul. You as You, as part of collective soul allows as one energetic Universe what will be held. 
 
Notice that your own piece of the puzzle is small. 
Your wisdom is nothing without the wisdom of another. 

You are all growing together. 
There is no way you can do this alone. 
This is because there is no alone. 
We say again: there is no other.
 
When you tire of humanity, and it is very easy for you to tire, to become discouraged by how things are now in this world that you perceive, recall that what you are perceiving in earth world is just one perception: distorted, linear, three-dimensional only. 
 
This is not how things actually are. 
 
In truth, you as soul exist in multidimensions, all at once.
So this experience is just one of many you are having, all at once.
This wisdom that you hold so dearly is just part of some wisdom.
 
When you expand to include yourself as part of collective soul, which is God/One/All/Divine/Source, you understand your smallness and your greatness, and you understand the smallness and greatness of all you are in contact with. 

Remember also: collective soul is not just for humans. All beings, all sentient beings, not only all living beings but all sentient beings and energies and awareness are included. 
 
Allow this understanding to sink into your awareness, and notice how you relax. 
The world is much bigger than what you have been taught.

When you are hiding out in a non-learning, non-growing, non-consciousness life, the Universe will seek to balance this.

You will be given a lesson that demands your full attention.

These lessons, which often involve letting go of a way of life or a way of thinking, are never punishments. They are meant to take you further, faster.

You may kick and scream when you are first awoken, as anyone might do when they are roused abruptly from a deep sleep.

You may wake up confused, cranky, angry, sullen. You may not understand why you are being woken up!

But as the experience continues, and as you begin to understand, you begin not only to learn the lesson, but to have gratitude for the lesson.

What lessons are you noticing now? 
​How is the  Universe requesting your full attention? 

When you are resistant, rebellious, dragging your heels, hiding out, numbing out, skipping your lessons… this is when the Universe will step in and provide an experience that shifts you up quickly, even instantaneously.

You may perceive these experiences as hardships. Yet the gifts of these lessons are manifold:

The gift of financial ruin teaches you that money is a false god.
The gift of social downfall teaches you that fame is fickle.
The gift of illness teaches you that the body is mortal.
The gift of an accident teaches you that everything changes.
The gift of betrayal teaches you discernment.
The gift of grief teaches you to enjoy Now.
The gift of failure teaches you fearlessness.
The gift of bottoming out teaches you to begin again.
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Again… you receive the lesson that you can handle. You are meant to grow!