The Four Stages Of Life
Education, Sensation & Experience, Power, Immortality
The First Stage of Life is the stage of education.
This stage generally lasts from conception to 20 or 25 years of age. During this stage you learn the basic fundamental rules of the game of life. You formulate or accept a value system. You get your basic instruction in reading, writing, counting, logic, and decision making. Generally, in the education stage, you lay the foundation—thoughts, attitudes, emotions, and associations—on which the rest of your life is based.
It is in this first stage that you develop your basic attitude towards yourself—your self-image. You also develop your attitude toward other people and toward the world in general. It is here that you develop self- confidence or fear; faith or doubt; cowardice or courage. Your nature—positive or negative, thief or benefactor—is molded.
The challenge in this first stage is that most of your education comes from other people. You, as a child or young adult, had very little input in the matter. Thus, the thoughts, attitudes, emotions, and experiences, positive or negative, of your parents, teachers, ministers, or any other authority or admiration figure, tend to be perpetuated in the child and young adult.
If this foundation stage is not laid down solidly, then very often, at some point later in life, that crack in the foundation will manifest. It will show up like a thief in the night and snatch away your peace of mind, your good health, your glory, and your possessions.
When this foundation is built on truth, honesty, love, faith, discipline, confidence, compassion, and all of the positive aspects and attributes, then nothing is impossible. The young adult who has properly completed this stage of education is now prepared for the next three stages, and the rest of their lives.
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