Sometimes, in travelling a path, we discover a short-cut, and we reach our destination in less time and with less effort than we thought, when we began the journey, would be required of us.

On the path to self-awareness, however, there are no short-cuts. Personal growth awareness of the person we are in every present moment is an ongoing lifetime process. The end of one learning cycle is always the beginning of the next.

Growth on any level, for any life form, is a continual process. Our soul's growth accumulates from lifetime to lifetime within each level of consciousness, and moves with us from one level to the next.

It is never a case of all or nothing, with our infinite future being permanently defined by the choices we make within a given timespan on a given level of learning; because soul experience for the purpose of growth is the only real objective in life.

God poses no limitations, no time limits, no space limits on our infinite, predestined accomplishment of that objective. Each soul learns through experience in its own time and on its own terms, as does every human being.

When, for our soul growth objectives, we come into a physical existence as a human being, we come in fully capable, on every level, of fulfilling the growth objectives we have planned to accomplish through our life experiences.

Each of us has in each lifetime one primary lesson we hope to learn. The secondary lessons that we build into our life plan are lessons that support and point to the primary lesson.

Based on our life plan, everything in our lives is geared to exposing us to the people, the events, and the circumstances that will encourage us to learn through our own experience — what we came here to learn.

Sometimes, we choose to look at our lives objectively and see the people, events and circumstances as the learning experiences they were intended to be. Sometimes, we choose to look at life from a more human, more emotional perspective.