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APPLICATION
REINCARNATION
All the values and ideas we were unable to express in our current life will leave an unfulfilled longing at our time of death. This longing has the tendency to make us again choose circumstances that offer the potential of fulfilling this craving.
Yet it is an illusion to hope that our next life will bring the desired satisfaction if we do not actively take concrete steps necessary for fulfilling our aspirations NOW. Only sitting and waiting for something to happen will never produce the desired results - and NEVER in this case means the endless repetition of our present dissatisfying cir
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cumstances.
So why not face the challenges we carry within us now? If our next lifetime will confront us with similar circumstances as we currently experience, what makes us hope that we will take up the opportunity then, if we fail to take charge of manifesting our ideas now, - in the very present?
The idea that this is our very first incarnation and that any successive life in a bodily context is re-incarnation, is naïve and illogical. There has been a long chain of lives before this one and there might be an equally long and monotonous chain ahead of us for as long as we continue to avoid manifesting our inner ideals and values.
Now is our point of power. Now is the only point in time when we are able to do something. If we transfer this power to another - future re-incarnation, we basically surrender the control of our life(s) to a diffuse future that will never arrive.
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The fact that the theme of this book triggered your interest is the best indication that materially oriented themes do not engage your full interest any more and that you now are consciously or subconsciously searching for other and more rewarding realms.
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