Today’s Oracle takes us to the Aquarius weekly of Oct 24, 2003
We need to maintain a careful relationship with those things that, if they don’t kill us, make us strong. Gratitude is important, since after all we wouldn’t have what we gained without the difficulty or challenge. But it may only represent one layer of feeling, beneath which is anger that people make life so difficult for one another. It is true that pain is the last, best teacher, and is often the necessity that facilitates the greatest breakthroughs we ever experience. But another kind of advancement is possible for you right now, if you’ll embrace the possibility that pain is not a necessary part of gain.
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Yes, another way to look at is that once you have risen above certain challenges, have gone beyond blaming external circumstances, have owned your feelings of pain and turmoil, you are standing back as an observer and are now looking at things from a higher perspective, suddenly your realize how transparent everyone around you is, You watch those manipulative games, dishonest and selfish agendas and actions, see innocent people getting hurt in the process, resources that are meant to serve masses are being controlled and possessed by a selfish bunch, You feel the pain, only now you feel the pain of the victims, you feel the pain of your planet, that pain is part of the gain only if it encourages you to take action and stand up and help the higher purpose prevail.
Thanks.