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Hardship is self created

Every human being and every spirit erects the world in which he or she lives. You build your home in the spirit world after your life on earth, and you build your future life on earth. Every act, thought, feeling has its form, which then builds the spiritual home—even though only temporarily—as well as the destined events of the future incarnation. All this represents not only the natural outcome of the person’s individual attitude and outlook, but the spiritual forms so constructed indicate exactly what this entity needs for its further development. Meditate on these words, for they contain much. They again exemplify that the equation must always come out right: hardship is self-created, yet precisely because of that, it contains the only medicine there is. Through this you can fathom the vastness of divine wisdom in its magnificent lawfulness. Whoever understands this, will also understand that destiny and free will are not two mutually exclusive factors, but are interwoven and connected. The events that fate brings to you are spiritual forms which have to manifest in a concrete way. If through ignorance of these laws unfavorable forms are created, each being has to dissolve them himself, and this can happen only by entering a spiritual path of inner discipline, self-knowledge, and self-search.

- Excerpt taken from Pathwork Guide Lecture #3 Choosing Your Destiny—The Will to Change