Paula Sjogerman

on 9/23/03 8:04 AM, [email protected] at
[email protected] wrote:

> Using
> different wording, I feel like what was meant is that everything
> happens for a reason. Everything happens in order for each of us to
> reach enlightenment. It may feel great or it may feel bad, but it
> happened to teach us something we needed to know, to work though, to
> experience in order to reach enlightenment and to be truely happy.


I think there's a big difference between saying that you learn something
from every experience and experiences happen IN ORDER to teach us something.
Many things happen for no reason, but you can still take a valuable lesson
from them.

Many years ago, someone blew up a house I was living in. Some people
actually asked me what it was about my life that caused that to happen. I
have learned many things through having had that experience, but no one
could ever convince me that there was anything about my life that CAUSED
that.

Paula