Life-lessons and tasks
QUESTION: Masters, could you please shed some light on the difference between life tasks and life lessons? I’m sure that some are interwoven, but I also feel there’s a difference. A lesson might be a physical handicap and learning to cope with that. A task might be healing people. And could you tell me what my personal life task is and what my main lessons are? ~Jorgen, Netherlands
ANSWER: You would do very well as a group leader for discussions about the journey of life, reincarnation, and the soul’s many life experiences. You have phrased your question with a very good example that is spot on.
We can sum up this area by saying that, in almost all cases, a life-lesson is an individual thing that the soul wishes to experience and, through its freedom of choice, to understand. A life-task is generally an inter-personal situation in which the soul is sharing an activity with one or more other souls. You will generally see that the task is something that the soul has already understood and is using its knowledge to help others understand as well.
Life-tasks are all about teaching others is one way or another. If people are buried under their life-lessons, they will not be able to work with a life-task because it will divert them from their path.
Tasks may be formal or informal. A person who holds organized classes or heals others, using any of a number of recognized systems, does so, and it is labeled as a task. Some are drawn to help informally in one-on-one situations where they share of themselves and the way in which they were able to master the same types of lessons.
You have completed the majority of your life-lessons, which we will not elaborate. We will not speak of them because it is the wisdom you have gathered from these lessons that will be part of your task. They will be permanently imprinted upon you when you claim them and speak of them to others. A lot of your task has to do with bringing others up to speed on their souls’ journeys, going through the same lessons you have just finished.