Life school . . .

. . . imagine Life as a school . . . the three treasures: Patience, Simplicity, Compassion, the core curriculum. . . .

. . . each experience a lesson, learnt through problems to be solved . . . the lesson repeated with different experiences until it is learnt . . . sometimes hard lessons take a while . . . years . . . a lifetime . . .

. . . subsequent lessons build on previous ones . . . nothing wasted . . . reflection helps to create a narrative to give some shape to the emergent whole . . . the lessons we love are easy . . . the ones we dislike, we avoid . . . they are the ones where the learning is richest . . . "in the cave we fear to enter, lies the treasure which we seek" as Joseph Campbell so beautifully tells it . . .

. . . although, in a different analogy, the cave where we feel safe may be a place of complacency . . . cosy . . . the classroom of the School of Life is outside the known . . . past the culturally conditioned cages . . . in the wild wide open spaces . . .

. . . and also inside . . . beyond mind, through the heart portal, the door to everything . . .