Reincarnation: An Overview I know that I have heard many people say, “Well, I didn’t ask to be born. I don’t want to be here. Why should I have to put up with all these troubles and what have you? The fact is that you did it. You decided what nation you would be born in, at what time, into which race, and what economic conditions there would be in the family you incarnated into. And the location can certainly determine to a great extent what kind of experiences you are going to have and what kind of work is likely to be available to you. Obviously, if you incarnate into a rural society in an agrarian culture, you are going to be a farmer or something closely allied to that. If you are born into a highly technological society at a time when technology is highly developed, then you are likely to be an engineer or involved in some way with that society’s technology. You determine all that. You are given total free choice with assistance in picking out your parents. Indeed, those people who will become your parents were individuals with whom you made that arrangement before they incarnated. Along with those who were going to be your brothers and sisters. Courage and wisdom are the byproducts of meeting these challenges of life head-on. We, eventually become masters of our fate rather than the victims of circumstances around us. When you feel in control, life gets to be much more enjoyable. But, it seems strange that the more things we learn how to do, the bigger the challenges are that come our way, and yet they don’t seem any more difficult than a child learning how to tie a bow in his shoelaces. We have learned how to do so many difficult things that we are then allowed to take on really major challenges. Perhaps one day we may become a great statesman or a president of a great country as a result of all the things we have learned in prior incarnations preparing us for this kind of accumulation of skills.
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