Entry 278 - The Error in Seeing Failure as Sin

7/12/20

Sin is oftentimes unconsciously identified with failure within certain religions when they accept a dualistic perspective as base reality. By believing “This was right and that was wrong” we can unconsciously fall into the error of assuming what is wrong was sinful rather than it being constructive for our growth. I believe it’s vital to know that not every failure is a sin, and not every sin is a failure.

Thinking all failure equates to sin is highly toxic because instead of encouraging people to fail knowing it’s part of success, people are afraid to fail because they associate failure with sin.

Having the mindset that success is better than failure, rather than seeing both as a natural part of our journey, makes people afraid of failure instead of embracing the lessons we learn from it when it comes.

People who never try, who never go out, who never explore, who never experience, but choose to stay in their small, little, safe bubble are those who are not learning from their failures and growing (how they were designed to be) but are sitting quite literally in the middle of stagnation. 

A unity perspective celebrates both failure and success because it views both failure and success as bringing the person to a higher state of consciousness from a perspective point of view and a more progressed evolutionary state of being from an action point of view.

With this unity perspective, the only true failure is not trying, which equates to not evolving because when you stop inertia, you stop the natural eb and flow of your own evolution and growth. 

Lessons are when you learn from a situation. We learn from both positive and negative events, both our successes and failures. Both are a natural part of our evolution. Realistically, humanity tends to have much more failures than successes, similar to how a destination has many steps (failures) and then the destination is finally reached (success). 

We shouldn’t shame our failures but celebrate the long road we traveled towards each of our successes. We must stop seeing failure as the enemy of God and embrace it as a lesson to help us evolve into who we are meant to be.