I believe the purpose of life is to learn.

I believe the reason for learning is growth, which takes form as the wisdom needed for personal development, the wisdom needed to understand and constructively interact with other people, and the comfort that comes with a confident relationship with self, others, and The Universe.

I believe the sequence of learning is important:

• first, we must learn about self,
• next, we must learn about other people, and
• then, we must learn about the spiritual.

For most of us, perhaps for almost all of us, the order of learning is disrupted very early in our lives. Perhaps, for many or most of us the disruption starts the very instant we are born. Our learning is disrupted by well-meaning parents, our learning is disrupted by well-meaning figures of authority, and our learning is disrupted by other not-so-well-meaning people and by ignorant, self-serving, and malicious people.

The point is, the order of our learning is disrupted early in our lives.

So, we must at some point in our lives take responsibility for our learning.