Love & Light,
Liara

Awesome comment, although I had to read it a couple of times. I think I have my head wrapped around it now! I think I use the term “Higher Self” where you use “Authentic Self” – could that be?

Although I have to say that learning and growing are Soul-level functions, mirrored here in the physical. The Soul itself is here to increase its vibration, to evolve itself back to its Divine Source.

I agree with you that learning and growing is guided from within.

Blessings,
Andrea

A Higher Self implies a Lower Self. Being sacred, the latter (with its wounds and the peculiar ways in which those wounds manifest themselves) requires acceptance. Being divine, the former requires assurance.

The Authentic Self has two fundamental aspects: sacred and divine. Learning and growing are merely processes to secure places and times where our encounters are sacred and our experiences divine. One might also say that the Authentic Self has soul and spirit: sacred encounters are cultivated with soul, by soul; divine experiences are expressed with spirit, by spirit. To the extent to which we cultivate quality with sacred intent and express vitality with divine intent, is the extent to which we can rely on our own Authentic Selves to guide our conduct.

Otherwise, in the process of learning and growing, we rely on others, in this or any other plane of existence, to guide us to the deepest, fullest, highest manifestation and expression of our Authentic Selves.